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National Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition

 

The National Gallery of Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary exhibition, Continuity, runs from June 30 to September 30th, 2024. Continuity revisits ten NGJ’s iconic exhibitions, including the Biennials of 2014, 2017 and 2022 and Jamaica Jamaica, (2020). It also features exhibitions from National Gallery West, the Montego Bay arm of the NGJ. Those exhibitions explored gender, the intersection of Jamaican art and music, fashion and technology in portraiture, sculptures, textiles and multimedia.

Continuity will exhibit more than 40 artists, including Barrington Watson, Albert Huie, Cosmo Whyte, Everald Brown, Petrona Morrison, Miriam Smith, Deborah Anzinger, Keambiroiro Khalfani Ra, Kimani Beckford, Ebony G. Patterson and Richard Nattoo.

For more information please visit https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.com/

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