Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow | |
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Born | 1975 |
Nationality | American, Jamaican |
Education | University of Florida, Hunter College |
Known for | Installation art, performance art |
Awards | Franklin Furnace Fund |
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (born 1975 in Manchester, Jamaica) is an American interdisciplinary artist based in New York City.[1] She is best known for her work in performance art.[2][3][4] She teaches at the School of Visual Arts,[5][6][7] and is a mentor in the New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.[8]
Lyn-Kee-Chow grew up in South Florida and holds a BFA from the University of Florida, and an MFA from Hunter College.[9][10]
Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art,[11] Exit Art,[12] Panoply Performance Laboratory,[13][14] the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts, the Art Museum of the Americas, Grace Exhibition Space, the Open Contemporary Art Center in Beijing, and other institutions.[15][16]
Lyn-Kee-Chow's work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post,[17] Hyperallergic,[4] and other publications. She has received awards from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation,[18] the New York Foundation for the Arts,[19] the Franklin Furnace Fund,[9] the Queens Council on the Arts,[20] and the Consulate General of the United States, Guangzhou.[21][22] Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Jamaica and the Bianca Lanza Gallery in Miami Beach, among other institutions.[1][22] Lyn-Kee-Chow is a former member of the tART Collective.[23]