Deborah Anzinger

Deborah Anzinger
Deborah Anzinger
Born	1978; Jamaica
Nationality	Jamaican
Known for	Portraiture
Notable work	An Unlikely Birth
Movement	Modern Art

Deborah Anzinger (born in 1978) is a Jamaican artist who creates painting, sculpture, video and sound to "interrogate and reconfigure aesthetic syntax that relate us to land and gendered and raced bodies".^[1] Anzinger works as an artist has been featured in several exhibitions, galleries and museums which include the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.^[2]

Early life and career[edit]

Anzinger was born in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica in 1978. She received a BS from Washington College in 2001,^[3] and a PhD in Immunology and Microbiology from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.^[1]

Career[edit]

She is the founder of New Local Space (NLS) in Kingston, Jamaica.^[4] Anzinger's writing has been published in Caribbean Quarterly.^[5]

Exhibitions[edit]

New Roots: 10 Emerging Artists, July 28–September 30, 2013, National Gallery of Jamaica^[6]
Field Notes: Extracts, June 18, 2015 – September 27, 2015, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts^[1]
Double Dutch: Heino Schmid + Deborah Anzinger, September 22–October 30, 2016, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas^[7]
An Unlikely Birth, April 26–August 11, 2019, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia^[1]^[8]
The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, July 18, 2019 – June 7, 2020, Pérez Art Museum Miami^[9]
Resisting Paradise, September 19–December 8, 2019, Fonderie Darling, Montréal (Canada)^[10]^[11]

Collections (selection)[edit]

Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida^[12]

Awards and grants[edit]

2016 fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture^[1]
2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant^[13]
2020 Soros Arts Fellow^[14]^[15]

Bibliography[edit]

King, Daniella Rose (30 June 2021). Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth. University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art. ISBN 978-0-88454-152-3.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Deborah Anzinger". National Gallery of Jamaica Blog. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ "Deborah Anzinger - Erosion". Sargent's Daughters. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
^ "Deborah Anzinger - Erosion". Sargent's Daughters. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ "NLS creates vibrant space for artists". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ Anzinger, Deborah (2018-01-02). "A piercing void where we meet". Caribbean Quarterly. 64 (1): 5–10. doi:10.1080/00086495.2018.1435289. ISSN 0008-6495. S2CID 139795578.
^ nationalgalleryofjamaica (2013-07-17). "New Roots: Deborah Anzinger". National Gallery of Jamaica Blog. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ "Double Dutch: Heino Schmid + Deborah Anzinger". NATIONAL ART GALLERY OF THE BAHAMAS. Archived from the original on 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ Holmes, Heather (8 January 2020). "Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth". Art Papers. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ "The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art". www.pamm.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ Sirois-Rouleau, Dominique (6 November 2019). "Resisting Paradise, Fonderie Darling, Montréal | esse arts + opinions". esse.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ "Fonderie Darling | Resisting Paradise". fonderiedarling.org. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ "The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art". C& AMÉRICA LATINA. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
^ "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. October 10, 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ "Announcing the 2020 Soros Arts Fellows". www.opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
^ "JAMAICAN SELECTED AS SOROS ART FELLOW | Art Events". arteventsja.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.

External links[edit]

Official website