ART(ist) #9
Camille Chedda
Camille Chedda is a Jamaican contemporary visual artist. She lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.
Since 2016, she is the project manager of InPulse, an ongoing programme undertaken by Rubis Mécénat and Rubis Energy Jamaica in the Dunoon Park community in East Kingston, which strives to support Jamaican youth and improve the conditions of young adults from local communities through the practice of visual arts, as a positive means of expression.
Camille Chedda was born in Manchester, Jamaica. She lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica. She graduated from the Edna Manley College with an Honours Diploma in Painting and received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Museum of Latin American Art, The Portland Museum of Art, and the Wallach Art Gallery of the Colombia University. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Albert Huie Award, the Reed Foundation Scholarship, the inaugural Dawn Scott Memorial Award and the British Council’s TAARE Program Award. She has been an artist in residence at Alice Yard (Trinidad), Art Omi (New York) and Hospitalfield (Scotland). She is the Project Manager of the InPulse project, and lectures at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.