Ewan Atkinson b. 1975, Barbados; lives in Barbados

Ewan Atkinson is an artist, educator, and ephemerist. He is currently the coordinator of the Studio Art BFA program at 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.

He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1998 and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies in 2013. He participated in the Liverpool Biennial 2010 and the 12th Havana Biennial (2015). His work has been exhibited by international galleries, museums and institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland.