Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

Born in Jamaica / Works in New York City
BIO
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a renowned Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York City. Her work explores performance and installation inspired by the nostalgia of her homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality, environmentalism, and migration. Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has garnered awards including New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2012) and Franklin Furnace Fund (2017-18). Her work is included in several museum collections and reviewed in publications such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, and Hyperallergic.
You'll like Jodie if: you’re invested in exploring elements of your heritage
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is an interdisciplinary artist who often stages live and lens-based performances. She constructs narratives with wearable sculptures, performance, and installations that aim to highlight the lost traditions and stories of her own heritage(s), cultural ideologies and the effects of migration, globalization, and climate change. Using urban and natural landscapes some of which are culturally significant she places the audience as the role of witness to her reclaim. Lyn-Kee-Chow lives in Queens, NY and is currently working on her ongoing series, “Junkanooacome”, based on the 18th-century Jamaican folk masquerade called jonkonnu.
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