This is a list of women artists who were born in

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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* Pearl Alcock (1934–2006), outsider artist * Esther Anderson (born 1946), filmmaker, photographer, actress

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Jacqueline Bishop Jacqueline Bishop is a writer, visual artist and photographer from Jamaica, who now lives in New York City, where she is a professor at the School of Liberal Studies at New York University (NYU).Hope Brooks (born 1944), painter

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* Margaret Chen (born 1951), sculptor *

Renée Cox Renee Cox (born October 16, 1960) is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator. Her work is considered part of the feminist art movement in the United States. Among the best known of her provocative works ...

(born 1960), artist, photographer, curator, feminist, now in New York

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Gloria Escoffery Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic active in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, ...

(1923–2002), painter, poet, critic

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Elsie Few Elsie Evelyn Few, (4 February 1909 – 17 December 1980) was a Jamaican-born artist, who had a long career in Britain and was associated with the Euston Road School. Throughout her career Few produced oil paintings of landscapes but later in her ...

(1909–1980), painter, art teacher

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Marguerite Primrose Gerrard Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (29 July 1922, Jamaica – 11 August 1993, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, born Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe, was a Jamaica-born American botanical artist. Life and family Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe was ...

(1922–1993), botanical artist *

Lorna Goodison Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947)Debo ...

(born 1947), writer and painter

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* Tamara Natalie Madden (1975–2017), Jamaican-American painter *

Edna Manley Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican Order of Merit, OM (28 February 1900 – 2 February 1987) is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica. She was known primarily as a sculptor although her oeuvre included signi ...

(1900–1987), sculptor *

Petrona Morrison Petrona Morrison (born 1954) is a Jamaican sculptor and media artist. Her work is largely inspired by African art; she uses found objects in assemblages that have both personal and broader social themes. A native of Manchester, Jamaica, Morrison ...

(born 1954), sculptor

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Ebony Patterson Ebony G. Patterson (born 1981, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born visual artist and educator. She is known for her large and colorful tapestries created out of various materials such as, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, je ...

(born 1981), mixed-media artist {{DEFAULTSORT:Jamaican women artists - Jamaican

Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...

Artists, women