Curricula Vitae (Selected from 2001 - present)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2005 Roshini Kempadoo: Works 1990 – 2004 continues tour to Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth (October – November)

2004 Roshini Kempadoo: Works 1990 – 2004. Tour includes a new commission ‘endless prospects’ at Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London UK (July – September)

2001 Virtual Exiles continues to tour: Lighthouse Media Arts Centre, Wolverhampton, UK (January) and Galeria Moderna, Ljubljana, Slovenia for Mesto Zensk- City of Women festival (October).


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 About Change (Part1) is a joint project of the World Bank, the Art Museum of the Americas, the Organization of the American States, and the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank. World Bank Art Program, Washington DC., USA. (May – July).

Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC. USA (January – May)

Rester et Partir / Staying and Leaving / Toso any ka take (2011) Point Sud, Bamako, Mali (February)

2010 National Portrait Gallery. Format Photography Agency 1983 – 2003, London, Room 38a. (January – July).

2009 7th Encuentro: Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Museo de Artes, National University of Colombia, Bogotá. (August)

Liminal: A Question of Position, inIVA, Rivington Place, London. (March – April)

2007 Art & Emancipation In Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario And His Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven‚ Connecticut. (September – December)

2006 - 7 Latitudes 2006 - Terres de Amazonie, ?otel de Ville, Paris included a selection from the series ‘Virtual Exiles’. Curated by Regine Cuzin
(December – January 2007)

2005 Racing the Cultural Interface: African Diasporic Identities in the Digital Age continues to MSVU Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada (January – March)

2004 A Place Called Home exhibition curated by Zayd Minty for NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa (Jun – Jul) featured a selection of images from ‘Virtual Exiles’. This continued to the South Africa Art Gallery (SANG), Cape Town (September – November)

2003 Global Detail exhibition curated by Wim Melis for the Nooderlicht PhotoFestival, 2003, Groningen, the Netherlands. A DVD of ‘Virtual Exiles’ was produced for the exhibition.

2002 Artwork commission ‘Back Routes’ CD-Rom for the exhibition Travelogue: views of Britain by seven contemporary artists curated by Mary Griffiths for Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (June - September).

2000/1 Reflections in Black curated by Deborah Willis opened for touring at the ANACOSTIA at the SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM, Washington DC (March)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011 Invited contribution to the discussion and exhibition project What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page, by Professor Deborah Willis one of the hosts developed by the Aperture Foundation, New York. (September)

2009 Invited to attend and contribute to 7th Encuentro: Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, National University of Colombia, Bogotá. (August)

2005 8th Festival of the Dhow Countries (tamasha la nchi za jahazi), Zanzibar. Invited, attended and exhibited ‘Virtual Exiles’(DVD) as part of the festival (July)

Invitation to the editorial board meeting for the ‘Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color’ publication and the 2005 Public Colloquium, University of Maryland, USA. (March)

2004 ‘Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color’ at the International Bellagio Conference, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy. This was organised by the African American Studies Department, University of Maryland, USA as a week-long residential conference/symposium of 24 international women academics held at the prestigious Bellagio Study and Conference Center (August)

2003 Visiting duPont fellowship at The Art Institute in Boston, USA (October)

2001 Two week International Artists residency Cyfuniad Artists workshop in collaboration with Triangle Arts Trust, London, Oriel Mostyn and Bluecoat Arts Centre. (August)

WRITTEN PUBLISHED PAPERS, CHAPTERS, ARTICLES

2010 Journal article:
Kempadoo, R. (2010). Interpolating screen bytes: Critical commentary in multimedia artworks. Journal of Media Practice, 11(1), 59 - 80.

2008 Catalogue article:
Kempadoo, R. (2008) ‘Photographing Here/There.’ In Into the Open: Ania Dabrowska & John Nassari. London, Four Corners Gallery. pp. 38-39.

2007 Book chapter:
Kempadoo, R. (2007) ‘Back Routes: Historical articulation in Multimedia Production.’ IN GROSSMAN, A. and O’BRIEN, A. (Eds.) Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice. London, Wallflower Press. ISBN: 190567404x for pb, 1905674058 for hb, pp. 199 - 215.

Kempadoo R. (2007) ‘Digital media practice as critique: Roshini Kempadoo's installations Ghosting and endless prospects (2004).’ IN ARANA, V. (Ed.) “Black” British Aesthetics Today. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 1-84718-116-3, pp. 283-296.

PUBLISHED MATERIAL FEATURING MY ARTWORK AND RESEARCH, NET SITES, TELEVISION AND RADIO COVERAGE

2010 Internet sites/web publishing:
Interview with Nalini Mohabir for the ejournal explusultra: The Postgraduate WUN International Networks in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Volume 2, December 2010.

Willis, D. (ed). (2010). Black Venus 2010: They Called Her 'Hottentot'. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. g11 – g13. Plates: 4a, 4f, 4d, 4e, 4b.

Wolf, S. (2010). The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age. Munich: Prestel Verlag GmbH & Co KG.

2008 Guest speaker to the morning show, Gayelle Television Channel, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. (July 15th)

2007 Hall, S (2007). The Legacies of Anglo-Caribbean Culture – A Diasporic Perspective In Barringer, T., Forrester, G., & Martinez-Ruiz, B., eds. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds. New Haven and London, Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007, pp. 179 - 194.

Open Frequency - Axis curated programme
http://www.axisartists.org.uk/ofSELC.aspx

2005 Willis, D (2005) Family, History, Memory: Recording African American Life, New York, Hylas Publishing.

2004 OVA (2004) Roshini Kempadoo: Work 1990 – 2004, London, OVA.

Petty, Sheila (2004) Racing the Cultural Interface: African Diasporic Identities in the Digital Age, Canada, MSVU Art Gallery.

OVA (2004) Roshini Kempadoo Work: 1990 – 2004 (DVD and Catalogue details) Gupta, S, OVA

2002 Willis D & Williams, C. (2002) The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

Griffiths, M. (Ed.) Travelogue: Views of Britain by seven contemporary artists. Manchester, UK, Whitworth Art Gallery. 2002, 7 - 9 & 37. Plates: 8, 36, 38/39

Kempadoo, Roshini (2002) Sole Rights - Diffusion eBook. LILT: Liquid Geography, Alice Angus, Proboscis
http://www.proboscis.org.uk/liquidgeography/index.html
http://www.proboscis.org.uk/diffusion/liquid/D_LG_Kempadoo_A4.pdf

2001 Hall, S, & Sealy, M (2001) Different. A historical context: Contemporary photographers and black identity, London, Phaidon Press.

SELECTED ARTIST PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS

2011 Invited speaker to the international forum What is Caribbean Studies: Prisms, Paradigms and Practices entitled ‘Gazing Outwards and Looking Back: Visualising blackness, Caribbean and transnational perspectives,’ Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, USA. (April)

2010 Riddell Lecture 2010, University of Regina, ‘State of Play: Photography, Multimedia and memory’ Regina, Canada (October)

Invited Artist to Tate Britain Library & Archive GLA Story of London Event - The Future of Art, London. (October)

Invited artist’s keynote to Friday Event series: The Friday Event, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. (February) http://www.gsaevents.com/videoarchive/roshinikempadoo

2009 Invited artist’s presentation, Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of Art, New York University, NY, USA. 6th October.

Vertigo Talks 1: Virtual - at Iniva for Liminal: A Question of Position, Rivington Place, London. Sponsored by Vertigo Magazine.(April)

2008 Contribution to artist’s evening for exhibition Into the Open: Ania Dabrowska & John Nassari, Four Corners Gallery London. (1st July)

Invited guest speaker to the symposium Migration, Media, Archive held at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and organized by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in collaboration with Dundee and Napier Universities. (5th June)

Invited artist contribution to panel discussion to launch the Autograph Archive, The Missing Chapter – Cultural Identity and The Photographic Archive, Rivington Place, London. (21st May)

2007 The Gilder Lehrman Center’s 9th Annual International Conference: The Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation: Jamaica in the Atlantic World, co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at Yale University. (1st – 3rd November)

2006 Artist contribution to the tables rondes event, Salon Georges Bertrand, ?otel de Ville, Paris. (14th December)

Panel Debate ‘Naming the Place: Photography and Contemporary Art’ A panel discussion as part of Photo-London (http://www.photo-london.com/) moderated by Anthony Downey, with Mark Sealy (director Autograph ABP), David A. Bailey (senior curator Autograph ABP), and artists Sunil Gupta and Roshini Kempadoo, examining the relationship between politics and aesthetics in the context of contemporary photography, Royal College of Art, Burlington Gardens, London. (May)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2010 Acquisition of work by the National Portrait Gallery, London and Autograph ABP, London.

2007 Work collected by the following institutions and various private individuals: Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA; Birmingham Museum and Libraries Collection, UK.