ARC Artists

JB Barret

  • Photographer and Illustrator
  • Martinique
  • http://www.jbb-images.fr/
JB Barret is a freelance photographer and graphic designer. He practices in the field of illustration and photography since 1991 primarily stationed in Martinique. Meanwhile he is perusing various areas of research into a personal heritage. Barret was born in St. Germain en Layes in 1960 and studied History of...

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Wendy Nanan

  • Interdisciplinary Artist
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • http://latino.si.edu/rainbow/pages/Nanan.html
Wendy Nanan was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1955. After a foundation course at Manchester Polytechnic she obtained the BFA (Painting) at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1979. She currently lives and works in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. She has been exhibiting regularly since 1985, most recently in...

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Ryan Daniel Oduber

  • Filmmaker & Video Artist
  • Aruba
  • http://www.ryanoduber.com/
Aruban born contemporary visual artist Ryan Daniel Oduber (Master of Fine Arts) (1972) has a long trajectory in the visual arts dating back to the early 90-ties. Most of his art at those times, where found objects and paintings. His bachelor in architecture reflected back in his 3 dimensional forms...

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Olivia McGilchrist

  • Photographer and Video Artist
  • Jamaica
  • http://oliviamcgilchrist.com/
Born in Kingston in 1981 to a French mother and a Jamaican father and educated in France and the U.K. Between 2004 and 2010, Olivia McGilchrist worked in London as a commercial photographer, retoucher, digital operator and production assistant. In the process she completed a Photography M.A. at the London...

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Patricia Kaersenhout

  • Interdisciplinary Artist
  • Suriname
  • http://www.ch-artspace.com
Born in Den Helder, Holland, but a descendant from Surinamese parents, Patricia Kaersenhout developed an artistic journey in which she investigates her Surinamese background in relation to her upbringing in a West European culture. The political thread in her work raises questions about the African Diaspora movements and its relation to...

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Manuel Mathieu

  • Video Artist, Painter and Photographer
  • Haiti
  • http://www.manuelmathieu.com/php/gabarits/s_accueil.php
Manuel Mathieu obtained a bachelor’s degree in visual and media art from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) in 2010. In 2012, he took up a residency at Studio Béluga; had a solo exhibition of his work, PRÉMICES/OPEN-ENDED, at MAI; and will be part of a duo show at the...

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Andy Robert

  • Interdisciplinary Artist
  • Haiti
  • http://andyrobert.com/
Born in Haiti, Andy Robert is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is rooted in collage, assemblage and installation; he is currently living and working in Los Angeles. Robert received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and MFA from The California Institute of the Arts in 2011.  He is currently...

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Shastri Maharaj

  • Painter
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • http://smfineart.com/
Shastri Maharaj is a contemporary Trinidad  and Tobago artist, paints the spiritual aspect in art. His art works are executed in surrealistic, expressionistic, abstract and primitive modes. Shastri's paintings invite you to share, experience and connect with his visual descriptions.  His works are always in a state of flux.... changing,...

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Ana Mendieta

  • Conceptual Artist
  • Cuba
  • http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=373
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, and was exiled from her native country in 1961, just before the outbreak of the Cuban Revolution. Much of Mendieta's work expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement, and resonates with visceral metaphors of death, rebirth, and spiritual transformation. A seminal figure...

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Renée Cox

  • Photographer
  • Jamaica
  • http://www.reneecox.net/
One of the most controversial African-American artists working today, Renee Cox has used her own body, both nude and clothed, to celebrate black womanhood and criticize our racist and sexist society. She was born on October 16, 1960, in Colgate, Jamaica and later moved with her family to Scarsdale, New York....

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