Deborah Anzinger

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Deborah Anzinger
Born1978
Jamaica
Nationality Jamaican
Known for abstraction
Notable workAn Unlikely Birth, Untitled Transmutations
MovementContemporary 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 National Gallery of Jamaica, Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. [2]

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Early life and career

Anzinger was born in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica in 1978. She began her tertiary education at the University of the West Indies, Mona in 1996 and went on to complete a BS from Washington College in 2001, [3] where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Plant Physiology, and a PhD in Immunology and Microbiology from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago with a concentration in HIV Neuropathogenesis. [1]

Career

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

Exhibitions

Collections (selection)

Awards and grants

Bibliography

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