This is a list of artists born in

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* M. P. Alladin (1919–1980) * Sybil Atteck (1911–1975) * Nicole Awai (born 1966)

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* Isaiah James Boodhoo (1932–2004) *

Cheryl Byron Cheryl Byron (c. 1947 – June 17, 2003) was a visual artist, dancer, singer and social and cultural advocate. Biography She started her studies in her native land, Trinidad and Tobago. There she also studied dance with Neville Shepard and acted ...

(c. 1947–2003)

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LeRoy Clarke LeRoy Clarke (7 November 1938 – 27 July 2021) was a visual artist, poet, lecturer/inspirationalist, philosopher and Orisha Leader, who was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. A self-taught artist, he went in 1967 to live in N ...

(1938–2021) * Vera Cudjoe (born 1928)

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* Esther Griffith * Christopher Guinness (born 1981)

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Boscoe Holder Boscoe Holder (16 July 1921 – 21 April 2007), born Arthur Aldwyn Holder in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, was Trinidad and Tobago's leading contemporary painter, who also had a celebrated international career spanning six decades as a designer and ...

(1921–2007) * Christian Holder (born 1949)

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Amy Leong Pang Amy Leong Pang (1908–1989) was a painter from Trinidad and Tobago. Of Chinese descent, Leong Pang was born in Princes Town and sent to school in China; she is known to have painted while there. After her return to Trinidad and Tobago she moved t ...

(1908–1989) * Che Lovelace (born 1969) * John Lyons (poet) (born 1933)

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* Brian Mac Farlane (born 1957) * Althea McNish (1924–2020) * Wendell McShine (born 1972) *

Peter Minshall Peter Minshall (born 16 July 1941) is a Trinidadian Carnival artist (described colloquially in Trinidad and Tobago as a "mas-man"). Early life and career beginnings Minshall was born in Georgetown, Guyana, but moved to Trinidad as a small child ...

(born 1941)

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* Norris Iton (born 1951)

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Horace Ové Sir Horace Shango Ové (born 1936) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British filmmaker, photographer, painter and writer. One of the leading black independent filmmakers to emerge in Britain in the post-war period, Ové holds the ''Guinness World R ...

(1936–2023) *

Zak Ové Zak Ové (born 1966) is a British-Trinidad visual artist who works between sculpture, film and photography, living in London, UK, and Trinidad. His themes reflect "his documentation of and anthropological interest in diasporic and African history ...

(born 1966)

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* Roberta Silva (born 1971) * Hugh Stollmeyer (1912–1982)

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Denyse Thomasos Denyse Thomasos (October 10, 1964 – July 19, 2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora. "''Hybrid Nations''" (2005) ...

(1964–2012) List of Trinidad and Tobago artists

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 ...