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CriticismDiaspora

Kingston Biennial brought Jamaican artists and diaspora into dialogue

Gervais Marsh’s December 2022 Hyperallergic review examined the Kingston Biennial’s presentation of 24 Jamaican artists living locally and abroad. Under the theme Pressure, installations, painting and film addressed migration, spirituality and historical memory. Marsh highlighted exchanges between works by Kaleb D’Aguilar, Ricardo Edwards and Simon Benjamin while questioning the exhibition’s confinement to one floor of the National Gallery. The review preserved both the artistic range and curatorial tensions of the edition.

Hyperallergic30 Dec 2022

CriticismDiaspora

Veronica Ryan received the 2022 Turner Prize

ArtReview reported Veronica Ryan’s 2022 Turner Prize win for her exhibition Along a Spectrum at Spike Island and her Hackney commission commemorating the Windrush generation. The public sculptures enlarged Caribbean fruits in marble and bronze, while the gallery work explored ordinary materials through careful acts of making. Ryan received the £25,000 award at a ceremony at St George’s Hall in Liverpool.

ArtReview8 Dec 2022

OPENING THE JOURNAL

The living archive.

Kingston Biennial brought Jamaican artists and diaspora into dialogue

Veronica Ryan received the 2022 Turner Prize

The living archive.

Kingston Biennial brought Jamaican artists and diaspora into dialogue

Veronica Ryan received the 2022 Turner Prize

When We See Us brings a century of Black painting to Zeitz MOCAA

Wangechi Mutu’s Storm King sculptures imagined ecological kinship

Bamako Encounters announced a plural vision for its thirteenth edition

Hew Locke’s Foreign Exchange recast a monument to empire

Indigo Waves mapped Africa–Asia connections through the Indian Ocean

Ibrahim Mahama named to lead the 2023 Ljubljana Biennale

Ibrahim Mahama Builds Museums of the Future

Simone Leigh reworked the American pavilion through sculptural sovereignty

14th Edition of Biennale de Dakar announced theme

Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Ghana’s younger generation at Venice

Sonia Boyce discussed collaboration ahead of her Venice pavilion

Colby acquired Faith Ringgold’s Underground Railroad story quilt

Tracey Rose and Goldendean exhibitions announced at Zeitz MOCAA in 2022

The Phillips Collection centred Black abstraction in its anniversary programme

Zeitz MOCAA announced Tracey Rose’s Shooting Down Babylon retrospective