Sheena Rose | |
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| Born | 1985 |
| Nationality | Barbadian |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
| Known for | Animation, drawing, painting, performance art, new media |
| Website | www |
Sheena Rose (born 1985) [1] is a contemporary Caribbean multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Barbados. [2] [3]
She is a Fulbright scholar and holds a BFA Honors degree from Barbados Community College, 2008, as well as an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016. [4]
Sheena Rose has been a participant in the Havana Biennial, Venice Biennial, Gwangju Bienniale, Jamaica Biennial. In addition, she has exhibited her work in the MoCADA, [5] Queens Museum, KMAC Museum, [6] Turner Contemporary Gallery, and Residency Gallery. [7] [8]
In 2019, her work was included in the Perez Art Museum Miami. [9] The Weatherspoon Art Museum commissioned a mural from Rose, entitled Pause and Breathe, We Got This, for their first-floor atrium space in 2021. [3]
Rose has participated in many public art projects, such as designing bus shelters in Des Moines, Iowa, [10] [11] [12] and completing a two story mural at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., which also includes three of her paintings in its collection. [13] Rose performed her piece Island and Monster at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and MoCADA, NYC in 2017. [14] [15]
In a 2017 profile featured in The New York Times , Rose mentioned Ebony G. Patterson, Christopher Cozier, and Richard Mark Rawlins among her sources of inspiration within the artistic community in the Caribbean. [16]
Emma Watson listed Sheena Rose as one of her favorite artists in a 2018 Vogue article. [17] Rose received the 2020–2021 Distinguished Alumni Award from UNC Greensboro's College of Visual and Performing Arts. [3]
Her internationally acclaimed work has been recognized through: