Camille Chedda was born in Manchester, Jamaica. She graduated from the Edna Manley
College with an Honours Diploma in Painting and received an MFA in Painting from the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her works have been exhibited in documenta fifteen,
the Museum of Latin American Art, the National Gallery of Jamaica's Kingston Biennial (2022),
Jamaica Biennial (2017, 2014, 2006), the Ghetto Biennale, Haiti (2015, 17), FSU Museum of
Fine Art, NLS Kingston and the Olympia Gallery. She is the recipient of awards, including the
Albert Huie Award, the Reed Foundation Scholarship, the inaugural Dawn Scott Memorial
Award, the British Council’s TAARE Program Award, the Catapult SHAR Grant and the Jamaica
Art Society’s In Focus Fellowship. She has been an artist in residence at Alice Yard in Trinidad,
Art Omi in New York, Hospitalfield in Scotland, the Catapult Stay Home Artist Residency, and
the HOMO Sargassum Art Residency. She is one of the featured artists in the GCDN and
Alserkal Advisory’s multi-city public art interventions under the theme a Feral Commons. Her
public sculpture Chain of Love is located in the Joseph Manning Community Art Park on Lower
South Camp Road in Kingston. She is the Project Manager of Rubis Mécénat’s InPulse Art
Project, and lectures at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.

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Artist Statement

"In my works I utilize drawing, painting, collage and installation to explore ideas around race and
post-colonial identity. I work with everyday materials such as plastic bags, cement and concrete
blocks as surfaces to be manipulated, or as stand alone objects that retain cultural significance.
A recurrent theme in my work is construction, destruction and temporality. Even within my
drawings and cement objects, there is an aspect of decay that is evoked. I seek to uncover and
recover aspects of a lost identity through this process."