| Selected Solo Exhibitions
2000 Riverside Gallery, St Ann, Trinidad
1998 Kingdom Fine Arts, Boston, MA ., Of Spirit and Technology 130 Year Retrospective
1998 Lafayette College, Black Culture Center. Mystical Images.
1997 Gallery Lounge, Northeastern University
1996 Gateway 4, Newark, NJ
1995-96 Miller Gallery, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica NY
1995 Julian Art Gallery, Mass Bay Community College, Wellesley MA
1994 Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston Jamaica
1993 Blake Industries Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad
1991-92 Northeastern University AAMARP Gallery, Boston MA
1990-91 Museum of African American Life & Culture, Dallas, TX
1989 Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings and drawings
1988 Mante Contemporary Arts, London England. Work on paper
1987 Gallery Light Center, Brookline, MA. Paintings and drawings
1986 Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings and drawings
1984 Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists, Boston MA.
Paintings and drawings
1983 Brownagree Gallery, Commonwealth Institute, London, England. Paintings and drawings
1982 Sala De Exposiciones, San Jose, Costa Rica, CA. Paintings and drawings
1981 Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists. Boston MA. Major works
1980 Cinque Gallery, New York, New York. Paintings
1979 Mercer Arts Salon, New York, New York. Drawings
1978 Bolivar Gallery, Kingston.
1977 Mutual Iife, Kingston, Jamaica. Prints and drawings
1976 Goblin Hill Hotel, Port Antonio, Jamaica. Paintings
1975 Olympia International Art Center, Kingston, Jamaica. Nine yearret rospecfive
1974 Jamaica High Commission. Port of Spain, Trinidad. Paintings and prints
1973 Tom Redcam Library, Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings
1972 West Indian Student Center, London, England. Paintings
1971 Nomo Gallery. Kampala, Uganda. Paintings and drawings
1970 Kingston Parish Library, Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings
1969 College of Art, Science & Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings
1967 The Contemporary Art Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings
Selected Group Exhibitions
2000 Federal Reserve Building, Boston, MA
2000 Museum of National Center for Afro-A on,
1999 Skoto Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibition
1999 South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA Uncommon Perspectives: Artist from the Caribbean
1999 Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts Coll e of Art Boston
1999 CASA Lamn, Mexico City
1999 Gallery Magick, Easton, PA
1999 Shot Gun Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1999 Piano Factory Gallery Boston, Ma
1998-99 Kingdom Fine Arts, Boston, MA, four rou shows
1999 William Patterson University Gallery, Wayne, NJ
1998 1 ART. 1, Gallery, NY
1997 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Canada
1997 Charter Art Center, CT.
1997 William Bentley, Museum, CT.
1997 Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1996 City Without Walls. Newark, N.J.
1995-9 Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA. New England Today
1995 New Aquisitions, National Gallery of Jamaica
1995 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
1995 Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
1994-99 International Home Gallery, NY
1994 Copley Society of Boston, Boston. MA
1993 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1993 Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY.
1991 Creative Artist Workshop, New haven, CT. Contemporary Caribbean Artists.
1991 Cavin Morris Gallery, Soho, NY
1991 Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. Travelling Exhiblt
1990-99 AMARP Gallery, Northeastern University, Boston
1990 Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Travelling Ehhibit
High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA. Travelling Exhibit
Cavin MorTis Gallery, New York, NY
40 years, Edna Manley School of theVisual Arts, National Gallery of Jamaica
1989-90 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Black Art. - Ancestral Legacy
1988 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Works on paper
Museum of Fine Art. Boston, MA. Massachusetts Masters: Afro-American Artists World Bank Art Society. World Bank, Washington DC. Art Explosion A.D. Scott, Art Patron & Collector, National Gallery of Jamaica
1987 International Group Exhibit. Tokyo, Japan. paintings and drawings
1986 Contemporary Art Center. Kingston, Jamaica. Anniversary Group Exhibit
1985 Northeastern University. AAMARP Dept., Boston, MA. Anniversary Show
1984 National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. Annual Group Exhibition
1983 Museum of the National Center of Afro American Arfists, Boston, MA.
1982 Stores Gallery, Stanford, CT. Group ethibit of small works
1981 Cinque Gallery, New York, NY. Ant7iversaly group show
1980 Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta. Georgia. Annualjuried Group show
1978 11 Jamaican Painters, Caracas, Venezuela
1977 Royal Bank of Jamaica Ltd, Kingston, Jamaica.in gs and drawings
1977-92 Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica
1976 Gallery Barrington, Kingston, Jamaica. Caribbean Artists: Contemporary Twelve
1974 Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. Annual National Exhibition
1973 Devon House. Kingston, Jamaica. Paintings
1972 Uganda Museum, Kampala, Uganda. Contemporary Affican Art
1971 Sussex University. Sussex, England. Contemporary Caribbean Artists in Britain
1969 Jamaica High Commission, London, England. FourJamaican Artists
Selected Awards and Prizes
1995 New England Foundation for the Arts, Video Grant
1994 New England Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1988 Massachusetts Council for the Arts "Heritage Program',
State of Massachusetts. Grant for Publication
1986 Arts "Heritage Program", State of Massachusetts. Grant for
Massachusetts council for the
1985 Senior Citizen murals ARP Department. Artists in Residence Grant 1985- present
Northeastern University, AAM
1982 Massachusetts College of Art. professional nt
1981 College of the Holy Cross. Traveland Research Fellowship
1980 College of the Holy Cross. Artist in Residence Grant
1975 Festival Commission of Jamaica. Second Prize. - Festival Costume Queen
1974 Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. Film Award. - Kayiga, the Artist in his studio.
1969 Festival Commission of Jamaica, Jamaica Festivat Silver Medal Award.
1968 Government of Jamaica. Graduate Scholarship Award. - Royal College of art, London
Selected Public Collections
National Bank of Jamaica. Mural and other paintings. National Gallery of Jamaica. Paintings. Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists. Paintings and drawings. Consulate of Jamaica. Paintings and drawings. College of the Holy Cross. Painting. Royal College of Art, London. Painting. Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. Prints and drawings. Olympia Hotel, Jamaica. Mural.
Selected Teaching and Lecturing
1998 Artist in Residence, Printmaking. Lafayette College.
1981 -pres. Professor. Massachusetts College of Art. Two Dimensional Fine Arts Department.
1988 Guest Lecturer, "Two Decades of Art", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
1985 Panel Member, "Artists Survival". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1981 Guest Lecturer, "Art and African Retention in the Caribbean". University of Costa Rica
1980-83 VisitingProfessorandArtistiti Residence. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA.
1973-81 Chairperson otPainting Department Jamaica School of Art, Kingston Jamaica.
1971-73 AssistantProfessor Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Selected Publications and Lecturing
Thompson, Robert Farris. "The Song That Named the Land. The visionary presence of African American Art, Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African Amencan Art. Published by the Dallas Museum of Art. 1989 pages 104-107.
Gaither, Edmund Barry. "Massachusetts Masters: Afro American Artists!'
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 1988. pages 9,24,45.
Escoffrey, Gloria "Midsummer Delights and Ordeals", Jamaican Journal, 1987, pages 57-61.
Kitchener, Julie. -Kofi Kayiga's Rasta Rhythm" New Africa's London. Feb 19 page 50.
Professional Affiliations
1993-95 City of Cambridge Commission for the Arts for the 2]st Century. Commissioner
1985-pres. Gallery Light Certer, Cambridge MA. Artistic Director and Curator
1988-pres. JUKA ARTS Inc. Co-founder
Current Memberships
National Conference of Artists
JUKA ARTS Inc
Museum of the National Center of African American Artists |