Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (born 1975 in Manchester, Jamaica) is an American interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She is best known for her work in performance art. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and is a mentor in the New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.

Education

Lyn-Kee-Chow grew up in

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and holds a BFA from the University of Florida, and an MFA from

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Exhibitions

Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, Exit Art, Panoply Performance Laboratory, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts, the

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, Grace Exhibition Space, the Open Contemporary Art Center in Beijing, and other institutions.

Recognition

Lyn-Kee-Chow's work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post,

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, and other publications. She has received awards from th
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the Consulate General of the United States, Guangzhou. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Jamaica and the Bianca Lanza Gallery in

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, among other institutions. Lyn-Kee-Chow is a former member of the

tART Collective The tART Collective was an intersectional feminist and anti-racist art collective in New York City. Founded in 2004 and was running until January 2020 when the group announced its decision to end tART Collective, the group was the longest-running ...

References

External links

Official website

Article in Artilade

Lecture at the School of Visual Arts
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