Ewan Atkinson
b. 1975, Barbados
lives in Barbados
Born in Barbados in 1975, Ewan Atkinson received a BFA in the U.S.A. from the Atlanta College of Art and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies. Atkinson participated in the 2010 Liverpool Biennial and the the 12th Havana Biennial. His work has been exhibited by international galleries, museums and institutions including the Brooklyn Museum in New York; the Museum of Latin American Art in California; the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C.; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków; Transmission Gallery in Glasgow; and Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast. Atkinson has been an educator for over two decades. He is currently the coordinator of the Studio Art BFA programme at the Barbados Community College and a co-founder of Punch Creative Arena, an independent curatorial initiative. For many years Atkinson has been engaged in the study of a relatively unknown community called “The Neighbourhood”, seeking to understand its history, social structure and inhabitants. The Neighbourhood Project is an archive of ongoing study. Activating the storytelling capacity of collected documents and ephemera, Atkinson uncovers and presents fractured narratives that explore the production of meaning, tensions between communal and individual identity formation, and the existential desire to belong.
