Glasshouse is thrilled to host
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow: June Artist-In-Residence at Glasshouse
Still from ‘Junkanooacome’ by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (2019), photo by M. Charlene Stevens
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow will create a research-based installation for her screened anthology of ‘Junkanooacome’ performances based on the Jamaican festival masquerade, jonkonnu that was celebrated as far back as before the 18th century by enslaved Africans.
The installation ‘Junkanooacome: Rest, Read, Reflection’ will be open to the public by appointment on Friday & Sunday, June 16 & 18, 1-5pm
RSVP REQUIRED
BIO
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist based in Queens who draws from nostalgia for her homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality, environmentalism and colonial narratives in works ranging from drawing to installation and performance. The African diaspora, European colonialism,, and Chinese migration make up significant parts of Lyn-Kee-Chow’s origin story; the ancestral convergence in Jamaica (slavers, enslaved Africans, and migrant workers) followed by her family’s immigration to the United States informs an artistic practice rooted in storytelling and the sharing of lost traditions.
Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has been exhibited in Jamaican Pulse, Royal West Academy of England, Bristol, UK (2016); Jamaica Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA (2017) as well as Guangzhou Live 5: International Performance Art Festival, China (2014). Solo exhibitions include Picnic Parade at the Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA (2022) and Junkanooacome at Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Lyn-Kee-Chow co-authored and performed in Living Histories of Sugar in the Caribbean and Scotland: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and presented in Kingston, JA, and Greenock and Edinburgh in Scotland (2022). She is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award, Rema Hort Mann Artist-in-Community Engagement Award, Franklin Furnace Fund,, and Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice. Lyn-Kee-Chow has held residencies at Wave Hill Winter Workspace, and Triangle Arts, and her work has been featured in “Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture” by Jaqueline Bishop, Hyperallergic, The Miami Rail and Artsy. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is currently a 2023 sponsored artist of The Field's Social Justice Artist Practitioner program and an artist-in-residence with Residency Unlimited and KODA on Governors Island.