DEBORAH ANZINGER
b. 1978, JamaicaDeborah M. Carroll Anzinger, PhD (b. 1978, Kingston, Jamaica), is an award-winning Jamaican artist and founder of non-profit visual art initiative, New Local Space (NLS), Kingston, Jamaica. Deborah Anzinger’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the 35th São Paulo Biennial (São Paulo, Brazil), the Institute of Contemporary Art (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL), the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (Nassau, The Bahamas), and the National Gallery of Jamaica (Kingston, Jamaica).
International awards and nominations she has received include a fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2018), the Soros Arts Fellowship (Open Society Foundations, 2020), a MacDowell Fellowship (2022), Denniston Hill (2023), and nomination for the High Line Plinth, NY (2023). Her work has been published in the monograph Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth, edited by Daniella Rose King published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and included in journals such as Small Axe Journal (Duke University Press), Caribbean Quarterly (Taylor & Francis), Bomb Magazine and Art Papers. Anzinger currently serves on the international advisory board for the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development.
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