KELLEY-ANN LINDO
kelleyannlindo@gmail.com
b. Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica, and Providence, RI, USA.
Education
2021 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, U.S.A
2015 BFA, Painting, The Edna Manley College of The Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA
Awards, Fellowships and Residencies
2026 Wassiac Projects, Wassiac, NY
2025 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, Sausalito, CA
2025 The Dedalus Foundation Fund for Past Fellows and Awardees, U.S.A
2024 SPACES Residency, Ohio,
2024. Studio Mass Moca Residency
2023 Grand Central Art Centre Residency, Santa Ana, CA (ongoing)
2022. The Dedalus Foundation Fund for Past Fellows and Awardees, U.S.A
2021 The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture, U.S.A
2020 Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Graduate Research Grant 2020-21, Richmond, U.S.A
2020 E. I. Kirkland Scholarship in Painting & Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University
2019-21 P.E.O International Peace Scholarship (IPS)
2019-21 Fulbright IIE Foreign Student Program, Fulbright Program. Department of State, The United States of America
2018 Blaqmango Consultancy, Kingston, Jamaica.
2017 New Local Space Limited, Kingston, Jamaica.
2016 Alice Yard, Trinidad &Tobago.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024. Residue, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Between the Fictional, the Possible and the True, curated by Kerry Downey and Kelley- Ann Lindo, RISD Memorial Hall Painting Department Gallery, Providence RI
2024 Prospect 6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, curated by Susan Brennan, Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, New Orleans, U.S.A
2024 Sonder: The Black Biennial 2024, Gelman Gallery, curated by Amadi Williams and Isaiah ‘Prophet’Raines, Providence, RI, April 19th - June 2nd
2023 Distribution of the Sensible, curated by Ala Dehghan, Meena Hasan and Kelley-Ann Lindo, RISD Memorial Hall Painting Department Gallery, Providence RI
2023 InLight 2023: Reflection and Refraction, curated by Dr. Tiffany E. Barber and Ra-Twoine Fields, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, November 3rd-4th.
2022 A Tournament Of Lies Summer Exhibition,curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Will Hutnick, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY, May 21st- September 17th
2022 Conjunctions and Disjunctions/ Conjunctions y Disyunciones, curated by Noah Simblist and Beatriz Balanta. Black Ground, Cali. Colombia, February 18th-24th
2021 Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, curated by Tyanna Buie, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI, February 26th - May 23rd
2020 More Pain: Organized by 1st Year MFA Graduate students, VCUarts, Richmond, VA, September 19th-27th
2020 Exquisite Corpse, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, August 13th-15th
2020 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, Trinidad & Tobago, September 9th-15th
2018 Prizm Art Fair, Organized by Mikhaile Solomon, Miami, U.S.A, December 3rd-9th
2018 Arrivants Exhibition: Organized by Dr. Veerle Poupeye and Allison Thompson, Barbados Museum & Historical Society, Bridgetown, Barbados, November 6th-9th
2018 Blaqmango Residency Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, Kingston, JA, August 11th
2017 Jamaica Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, February 26th- May 28th
2016 Digital Exhibition, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, April 24th
2015 The School of Visual Art Final Year Exhibition, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA, June 6th -June 27th
2014 UNCAGED, Organized by 3rd Year Undergraduate Students, CAGE Gallery, Kingston, JA, April 3rd- April 17th
Selected Collaborative Projects
2020. Project: Dancing in the Streets, Granderson Lab. Trinidad and Tobago
Academic Experience
2025 Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI July- present
2023 Assistant Professor in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI September -June 2025
2022 Adjunct Faculty, The Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA, September – May 2023
2021 Research & Studio Assistant, Brook Inmans Studio, VCUarts, Richmond VA, October – May 2022
2020 Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond VA, September-May 2022
2019 Teaching Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond VA, September-May
2018 Adjunct Lecturer, The Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA, September – May 2019
Publications
2025 Prospect 6 https://www.prospect6.org/artists/kelley-ann-lindo
2024 SPACES https://www.spacescle.org/exhibitions/2024/09/06/residue-by-kelley-ann-lindo
2024 Residue of Hope: A Review of Kelley-Ann Lindo at Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio,https://art.newcity.com/2024/11/19/residue-of-hope-a-review-of-kelley-ann-lindo-at-spaces-
cleveland-ohio/
2022 Dedalus Foundation, Fund For Past Fellows And Awardees
https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/online-features/view/fund-for-past-fellows and%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20awardees-meet-the-2022-recipients/
2021 Dedalus Foundation, MFA Fellowship 2021
https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/fellow/kelley-ann-lindo/
2021 Shoutoutla Magazine, https://shoutoutla.com/meet-kelley-ann-lindo-visual-artist/
2018 Arrivants: Making Exhibitions in the Caribbean, https://arrivantsexhibition.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/arrivants-kelley-ann-lindo/
2018 Preelit Magazine, ART-ICLES: KELLEY-ANN LINDO, https://preelit.com/2018/04/12/barrelstick-to-the-enemy-that-you-know/
2018 Shelene Gomes and Mala Jokhan. The Global South Vol. 12, No. 1, Caribbean Transmigration in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Reimaginings and Globalizing Conditions.
2018 Pearce, M. (2018). “Americas in Britain” Art Project: Windrush, Retrieved from https://cu.live.solas.britishcouncil.digital/blog/americas-britain-windrush-2018
2017 “Jamaica's Barrel Children: Growing up when a parent is a plane ride away”, NBC, by Melissa Noel, December 27th
2017. Nlskingston.org. NLS.
2017 “The Competing Politics of the Jamaica Biennial”, Hyperallergic, by Seph Rodney, June 2nd "Taking Stock of The Jamaica Biennial 2017 with the Executive Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Veerle Poupeye & Others", The Huffington Post, by Jacqueline Bishop, May 25, 2017.
2017 Contemporaryand.com. Jamaica Biennial 2017
2017 Matters, V.Send Love inna Barrel, Kelley-Ann Lindo. Aliceyard.blogspot.com
2017 Nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com. (2017). Kelley-Ann Lindo | National Gallery of Jamaicablog.
2016 “Creating from memory”, GUARDIAN, by Marsha Pearce, December 11th
2015 Pearce, M, Gillian, A & Robinson, C: Firing the Canon. Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters, (7), 25- 28.