Cutltural Soliloquay II @ Seeline Gallery , Los Angeles, California.
Contact : bonnibop@yahoo.com
Born a native of Kingston ,Jamaica in 1981,Ebony G.
Patterson graduated from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing
Arts in 2004, where she received
an Honors Diploma in Painting and from Sam Fox College of Art and Design at the
Washington University in St. Louis in 2006, with a Masters in Fine Arts in Printmaking and Drawing .
She has
participated in several group exhibitions in Jamaica and abroad since 2001, her
most recent recent exhibits include:, The National
Biennial 2008 and 2010, Kingston, Jamaica, Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean
Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2007, Curated by Tumelo Mosaka,
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Brooklyn Museum, Curator’s Eye III: Ceremony in Space, Time and Sound,National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica,2008,
curated by Keith Morrison, Boys of
Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2008, Art on Paper 2008, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, Greensboro
,North Carolina, 2008,New Blue Emerging- First Kentucky Art Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art and
Craft, Louisville, KY,2008,NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art , Merchandise Mart Chicago , IL, 2008,Looky See, Summer Drawing Exhibit, Otis College of Art , Los
Angeles California,2008, Rockstone and Bootheel :Contemporary West
Indian Art, Real Artways Hartford,
CT, The Ghetto Biennale,
Grand- Rue, Port- Au –Prince, Haiti 2009,
Young Talent V, National Gallery of Jamaica , Kingston , Jamaica, 2010, curated by Dr. David Boxer and Veerle Poupeye, Shot in Jamaica, Alice Yard, Port- of-
Spain , Trinidad, 2010, curated by Christopher Cozier and O’Neil Lawrence and You are here/Vous êtes ici/ Usted esta
aqui, The Foundation Clemente, La Francais, Martinique,2010,Gully Godz in
Conversations, Monique Meloche Gallery( On the Wall Project ), Chicago, IL
,curator Tumelo Mosaka 2011
Patterson has also staged 7 solo exhibits in Jamaica and the
US the most recent being, Ebony G. Patterson- On the
Wall and in the Gallery, Monique Meloche Gallery , Chicago, IL (2011) , Fashion Ova Style - Conversations of Beauty, Gender + the Masculine, Pacific Design Centre,
Seeline Gallery , Los Angeles ,CA ( 2010) and Gangstas, Disciplez + the Doiley Boyz , Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts – Cage
Gallery (2009) , curated by Veerle Poupeye.
She is the recipient of several awards and scholarships both
abroad and in her home country, these include the Prime Minister Youth Award
for Excellence in Art and Culture 2006 and the SuperPlus Under 40 Artist of
the Year 2005 and more recently she has been awarded the Young Alumni Award of
Distinction 2011 by her alma mater Washington University in St. Louis. Her works
are apart several private and public collections. Patterson has been recently
added the invited artists list for the National Biennial, she is currently the
youngest artist on the list.
Patterson is Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing at
the University of Kentucky, Lexington KY. Patterson Lives and works in
Kingston, Jamaica and Lexington, KY.
Future Exhibits / Projects
Sept 2011
Untitled Project , Painting Center , New York, NY
July 2011 Residency @ Alice Yard , Port- of Spain, Trinidad
May 2011
Untitled Project @ Land of Tomorrow (L.O.T.) Gallery , Louisville , KY USA
April 2011
TEDxIrie Lecture- Re-Fashioning the Urban Male
Artist's Statement
Beauty, Gender, body and the grotesque are continued dialogues within my work. I am enthralled by the repulsive, the bizarre and the objectness of bodies and the contradictions that both have to art historically and culturally. The Jamaican vernacular, gendered cultural symbolisms and stereotypes serve as a platform for these discussions. I am enthused by words, conditions and experiences that objectify and abjectify.
Menstrual documents, cuts, bruises, language, feminine excrement, peeled skins, bleached skins, decadence, nippled and vulvic form
