Camille Chedda (born 1985, Manchester, Jamaica) is a visual artist who utilizes drawing, painting, collage and installation to explore ideas around race and post-colonial identity. She works with everyday materials such as plastic bags, cement and concrete blocks as surfaces to be manipulated, or as stand alone objects that retain cultural significance. A recurrent theme in her work is construction, destruction and temporality. Even within her drawings and cement objects, there is an aspect of decay that is evoked. Chedda seeks to uncover and recover aspects of a lost identity through this process.
Her works have been exhibited in documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany, the Museum of Latin American Art, National Gallery of Jamaica's Kingston Biennial (2022), Jamaica Biennial (2017, 2014, 2006), the Ghetto Biennale, NLS Kingston and the Olympia Gallery.
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Contact: ms.chedda@gmail.com
Education
2012 MFA in Painting, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2007 Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France
2007 BFA (Hons.), Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica
AWARDS
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2021 Jamaica Art Society Fellowship
2020 CATAPULT SHAR Grant, Kingston Creative, Fresh Milk Barbados, American Friends of Jamaica
2017 British Council Trans Atlantic Artist Residency Exchange Awardee, British Council Caribbean
2014 Inaugural Dawn Scott Memorial Award, Edward M Gomez, National Gallery of Jamaica
2012 Thesis of Distinction, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
Teaching Assistantship, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
2011 Teaching Assistantship, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
2010 Dean's Recognition Award, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
Graduate Assistantship at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
2007 Reed Foundation Scholarship, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Arts, Pont-Aven, France
Graduated as Valedictorian from the Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica
Graduated with Honors from the Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica
Albert Huie Award in Painting, Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica
Principals Award in Visual Arts, Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica
2005 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, Photography Awards 1 Bronze, 2 merits, Kingston, Jamaica
RESIDENCIES
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2017 Hospitalfield, Scotland, UK
2016 Art Omi International Artist Residency, Ghent, NY
2014 Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Trinidad
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EXHIBITIONS
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2022 Kingston Biennial 2022, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston Jamaica
documenta fifteen, Atis Rezistans|Ghetto Biennale, Kassel, Germany
Scafolding Time, Art at A Time Like This, Virtual Exhibition for Jamaica Art Society Fellowship
2021 “…and I resumed the struggle.” Summer Edition 2021, The Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
HOMO Sargassum Restitution, HOLDEX Site, Le Francois, Martinique
Faculty Exhibition, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2020 “…and I resumed the struggle.”, The Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Portraits, The Frame Shop, Woodbrook, Trinidad
2019 InPulse Arts Festival, Dunoon Technical High School, Kingston, Jamaica
Summer Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica,
Relational Undercurrents, Portland Museum of Art, ME, USA
Faculty Exhibition, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Dark Matter, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Due West, National Gallery of Jamaica West, Montego Bay, Jamaica
2018 Relational Undercurrents, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, FL, USA
Self-Portraits, NLS, Kingston, Jamaica
Relational Undercurrents, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, NY, USA
Faculty Exhibition, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 Relational Undercurrents, Museum of Latin American Art, CA, USA
Ghetto Biennale, Port Au Prince, Haiti
Jamaica Biennial 2017, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Faculty Exhibition, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2016 Jamaican Pulse, RWA, Bristol, UK
Faculty Exhibition, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaican Routes, Gallery F 15, Oslo, Norway
2015 4th Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Uprising, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Insides, NLS, Kingston, Jamaica
Faculty Exhibition, Cage Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Conversation Xchange, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute Art Gallery, Utica, NY
Solo Exhibit, Alice Yard Box Gallery, Woodbrook, Trinidad
2014 Jamaica Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
In Retrospect, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2013 New Roots, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Drawing from Perception VII, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton, OH
2012 National Biennial of Jamaica 2012, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Drawing on Drawings, Unit One Gallery, Beijing, China
Portraits, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
Boston Young Contemporaries 2012, Boston University, Boston, MA
UMass Dartmouth 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
UMass Dartmouth 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Star Store, New Bedford, MA
Hold, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA
National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL
2011 Points of Origin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA
Jamaica to China, A New Evolution, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Boston Young Contemporaries 2011, Boston University, Boston, MA
Brockton’s Art in the Windows Projects, Brockton, MA
East Meets West, 98 William Street, New Bedford, MA
Rapt/Unwrapped, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA
2010 Paper, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
Art Fresh, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2008 National Biennial 08, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Images in Existence, The Easel Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica
Young, Gifted and Black, 174 Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Taboo Identities, University of Kentucky Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, KY
Taboo Identities, Olympia Art Centre, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 Materializing Slavery, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston on the Edge, Edna Manley College , Kingston, Jamaica
Exhale, Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica
2006 National Biennial 06, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2005 JCDC Photography Exhibition, Shortwood Teachers College, Kingston, Jamaica