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	Bio 1981 Born Kingston, Jamaica Lives and works in Lexington, KY and Kingston, Jamaica Education 2007-Present Assistant Professor in Painting, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2004-2006 Sam Fox College of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, Printmaking/ Drawing MFA 2000-2004 Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica Honors Diploma in Painting Solo Exhibitions 2007 Hybrids, See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2006 Specimen, University City Library, St. Louis, Missouri Case Studies: Venus, Cuts and Aprons, Mutual Gallery, Jamaica 2005 Dialysis, UC Gallery, University of Montana (USA) Group Exhibitions and Juried Shows 2008 De Facto, Sam Francis Gallery/ Crossroads School, Santa Monica New Blue Emerging: First Kentucky Art Biennial, Kentucky Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Wall to Wall: Large Scale Drawing, Lexington Art League, Lexington ,Kentucky Four Aces: Exhibition of Large Scale Prints, (Traveling Exhibition) Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO University of Texas, Austin, TX San Marcos State University ,San Marcos, CA University of Madison, Madison, WI The Art of Collage, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica 2007 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art Brooklyn Museum, Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Closet Project (Installation), Mack B Gallery, Sarasota, Florida Woolworth Windows, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA Four Aces, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette , LA University of Kentucky New Faculty Exhibit, Tuska Contemporary Art Centre, Lexington, KY Four Aces, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge , LA 2006 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica Intimate Matter, Two Person Exhibit, Off-Campus Gallery Charlottesville, Virginia Making New Friends, Mack B Gallery, Sarasota, Florida University of Virginia Faculty Exhibit, Off-Campus Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Flat Files, St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Redhead Experimental Exhibit: A History of Women’s Art, NY, NY Young Generations 2006, Mutual Gallery Kingston, Jamaica MFA Thesis Exhibit II, Washington University St. Louis, MO 2005 ‘Identity and History: Personal and Social Narratives in Art in Jamaica’, Curator’s Eye II, Curated by British Curator and Critic Eddie Chambers National Gallery of Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year, Mutual Gallery (Jamaica) Eight, First Year MFA Show, DesLee Gallery, St. Louis, MO Young Generations, Mutual Gallery (Jamaica) Saakhi: A Multi-Ethnic look at Women’s health and Women’s Bodies, 3rd Floor Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2004 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery Kingston, Jamaica Young Professional, Pegasus Kingston, Jamaica Exhibition in Association with Centre de International Contemprian Arte, (CIAC) Pont Aven, Brittany, France Stages, Edna Manley College Kingston, Jamaica SUNY Brockport / Edna Manley College Student Exchange Show, (USA) 2002 ROSL Scholars Exhibit, Royal Over-Seas League (Scotland) 2003 Young Professionals, Pegasus Gallery Kingston, Jamaica 2002 ROSL Scholars Exhibit, Royal Over-Seas League (London) Old Bag Show, Grovsner Galleries Kingston, Jamaica Jamaica A.I.D.S. Foundation Charity Auction. 2002 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Juried Exhibition, Grovsner Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica 2001 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Juried Exhibition, Edna Manley College of the visual and Performing Arts (Jamaica) Awards and Scholarships 2008 Vermont Studio Center Artist Fellowship 2006 Prime Minister’s Youth Awards for Excellence, in Art and Culture (Jamaica) -the highest award a young person can receive in Arts and Culture in Jamaica Peter Marcus Award for Printmaking (Washington University) Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship for Painters,(Washington University) Emerson Visiting Critics and Curators Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, (St. Louis, MO) selected from a pool of over seventy artists to be visited by Curator Ingrid Schaffener 2005 Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year (Jamaica) Vicky Award Washington University, Printmaking Department 2004 William Danforth Fellowship (Washington University) Nancy Glanstien Scholarship for Graduate Students (Washington University) Diploma (4 years) First Class Honors (lower), Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Albert Huie Award for Outstanding Student in Painting (Edna Manley College) 2003 Order of French Merit Scholarship to the Pont -Aven School of Contemporary Enid Driscoll Spalleti Memorial Award (ROSL) 2002 Recipient of Two Bronze Medals from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Fine Arts Competition Recipient of the Royal Over-Seas League Travel Scholarship (only recipient from the Caribbean) Brian Morgan Scholarship (Edna Manley College) 2001 Coca –Cola Jamaica Bursary Merit Award from the Jamaica Cultural Development Fine Arts Competition Residences and Internships 2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 2006-2007 Residency, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2005 Internship, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis. Missouri Papermaking Internship, Joan Hall Studio, St. Louis, Missouri 2004 Internship, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art Brittany, France. 2002 Residency at The Patrick Allen Fraser’s Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland Artist Lectures 2007 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Artist Discussions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Art History Department Women’s Symposium, Women’s Committee, Washington University in St. Louis 2005 “Meet the Artists’. Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year Artist Talks, Mutual Gallery Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Painting Department Bibliography ‘Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art’, edited by Tumelo Mosaka, Published by Brooklyn Museum in association with Philip Wilson Publishers. ‘Intimate Parts’ , The Sunday Observer, August 2007. ‘What’s Wow Now, The Ones to Watch in Jamaican Art’ -Insiders offer clues as the next super novas to define the Jamaican aesthetic, Skywritings May- June 2007 Issue ‘Inner Dimensions: UVA Artists Delve Deep’, The Hook, October 19, 2006 ‘Studies of the Female Physique’, The Sunday Gleaner, July 30, 2006 ‘A Closer Look at Venus Cuts and Aprons’, The Sunday Herald, July 23-29, 2006 ‘Stimulating Exhibit by Ebony Patterson’, The Sunday Herald ,July 16-22, 2006 ‘Venus Observed’, The Jamaica Gleaner, January 15, 2006 ‘Art and Society II’, The Jamaica Gleaner, January 8, 2006 ‘Danforth Scholar Named Jamaica’s Best Young Artist’, The Record, Octr 7, 2005 ‘Through their Eyes- Review of the Super Plus Under40 Artist of the Year Competition’, The Sunday Gleaner , August 21st 2005. ‘Young Artists Shine In Super Plus Competition,’ Sunday Herald, August 14, 2005 ‘Self Reflection Through Art,’ Jamaica Observer, August 14, 2005 ‘There’s Something About Ebony !’ Sunday Gleaner, August 14, 2005 ‘Biennial 2004: A Postscript,’ National Gallery of Jamaica Quarterly Magazine, April/May/June 2005 ‘Artistically Speaking’, Radio Mona, July 29, 2005 ‘Le Pont de Artistes du Monde’, Le Telegramme, July 20,2004 ‘Blazing through the Art Trail’, Jamaica Gleaner September14, 2003 ‘Young Artist Showcases in London’, Jamaica Observer, August 23,2003 ‘Artistically Speaking’, Radio Mona, April 2003 ‘ROSL Arts Scholars 2002’,Overseas Magazine, December 2003/ February 2004 Television Jamaica Artist of the Week, February 7 –11, 2002