Ewan Atkinson is aN ARTIST, educator and ephemerist who lives and works in Barbados.
"The Neighbourhood Project investigates the development of persona and character within the social boundaries that might define or confine a community. Conflicts between community and the individual are explored and interrogated. What value systems control idealized social roles and moral positions? Who keeps these ideals in place? Using The Neighbourhood as an object of study, I examine the production of meaning, and how it creates or hinders an individual's sense of self."
EDUCATION
2014
MA in Cultural Studies (Distinction), University of The West Indies, Barbados
1998
BFA (Digital Art/Printmaking), The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta Georgia, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
“Fiction”. Zemicon Gallery, Barbados.
2002
“Personality Disorder Machine”. Zemicon Gallery, Barbados.
select group exhibitions
2019
“An Alternative Map of the Universe”. Guest Projects, London, UK
"Relational Undercurrents". Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A
"Relational Undercurrents". Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, U.S.A
2018
"Relational Undercurrents". The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A
"Arrivants". Barbados Museum and Historical society, Barbados
"MAMMON". Galerija umjetnina Split, Crotatia
"2nd Bienal Del Sur". Caracas, Venezuela
2017
"Relational Undercurrents". The Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, U.S.A
"Relational Undercurrents". Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, U.S.A
"A New Region of The World". Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
"æ : Arthur and Ewan Atkinson". Morningside Gallery, Barbados
"Caribbean Queer Visualities". Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland
2016
"Caribbean Queer Visualities". Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
"Rum Retort". The Tobacco Warehouse Greenock, Scotland
"Visions Archipéliques". Fondaion Clément, Domaine de L'Acajou, Martinique
"Digital". National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2015
Inaugural Bienal Internacional de Asunción, Paraguay
"The Neighbourhood - Only In Our Imagination" . Asls Gallery, Sage Art Center, University of Rochester, NY USA
The 12th Havana Biennial. Havana, Cuba
"Colonial Afterlives" . Salamana Art Center, Hobart, Australia (traveling exhibition)
2014
"Alles Masquerade". MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
"Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography", CONTACT Photography Festival. Toronto, Canada
2013
"Ship of Fools". Morning side Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados
2011
“About Change”. The World Bank Group Washington DC, U.S.A
“Wrestling with the Image” Art Museum of the Americas. Washington DCU.S.A
2010
“Caribbean Pavilion” Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool, UK
2009
“Rockstone and Bootheel” Real Art Ways. Hartford CT, U.S.A
“Home Schooled” Pace University, New York, NY U.S.A
“Black Diaspora Visual Art” Bridgetown, Barbados
2007
“Infinite Island” Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn NY, U.S.A.
2005
“Out Castes” Diaspora Vibe Gallery. Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
“Three Generations” Diaspora Vibe Gallery. Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
SYMPOSIA AND LECTURES
2019 “This Is Public Space”. Barbican Centre, London, UK
2017 "A Neighbourhood Report". TrAIN lecture series. UAL London.
2014, "Caribbean Queer Visualities". Yale University, U.S.A.
2009, Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity - International symposium. Bridgetown, Barbados
2008, MAS-SAMple In Conversation, a Critical debate. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
publications
Thompson, Allison. "Ewan Atkinson: Boy next Door." Caribbean Beat Nov. 2015: 70-76. Print.
Caribbean-beat.com issue-136
Small Axe 46. Vol. 19. No.1. Durham: Duke UP, 2015. Print.
King, Rosamond S. Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in TheCaribbean Imagination. N.p.: U of Florida, 2014. Print.
Archer, Melanie, and Mariel Brown. See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self Portraits from the Caribbean. Trinidad and Tobago: Robert and Christopher, 2014. Print.
Kennedy, Katherine. "ARC Feature Portfolio: Ewan Atkinson's 'The Neighbourhood Report'" ARC Magazine Contemporary Caribbean Visual Art Culture. ARC Magazine, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. <http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2014/01/arc-feature-portfolio-ewan-atkinsons-the-neighbourhood-report/>
Archer, Melanie, and Mariel Brown. Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography. Trinidad and Tobago: Robert and Christopher, 2012. Print.
Murray, David A. B. Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados. Toronto: U of Toronto, 2012. Print. (Cover Image)
Kennedy, Katherine. "Reflections on Education and Identity: The Work of Ewan Atkinson." ARC Magazine Contemporary Caribbean Visual Art Culture. Arc Magazine, 3 Aug. 2012. Web. <http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2012/08/reflections-on-education-and-identity-the-work-of-ewan-atkinson/>
Cozier, Christopher and Tatiana Flores. Wrestling with The Image- Caribbean Interventions, Art Museum of the Americas, The Organization of American States and Draconian Switch, January 2011. Web. <http://www.artzpub.com/content/special-publications/wrestling-image>
Thompson, Allison. "The Caribbean Pavilion at Liverpool: Some Thoughts." International Curators Forum. N.p., 2010. Web.. <http://www.internationalcuratorsforum.org/liverpool2010-thompson.html>.
Walmsley, Anne, and Stanley Greaves. Art in the Caribbean: An Introduction. N.p.: New Beacon, 2010. Print.
Mosaka, Tumelo, Annie Paul, and Nicollette Ramirez. Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art. New York: Brooklyn Museum in Association with Philip Wilson, 2007. Print.
Small Axe 12. Vol. 6. No. 2. Bloomington Indiana: Indiana UP, 2002. Print. (Cover Image)