Deborah Anzinger Explained

Deborah Anzinger
Birth Date:	1978
Birth Place:	Jamaica
Field:	abstraction
Movement:	Contemporary Art
Works:	An Unlikely Birth, Untitled Transmutations

Deborah Anzinger (born in 1978) is a Jamaican artist who creates painting, sculpture, video and sound to "interrogate and reconfigure aesthetic syntax that relate us to land and gendered and raced bodies".^[1] Anzinger works as an artist has been featured in several exhibitions, galleries and museums which include the National Gallery of Jamaica, Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.^[2]

Early life and career

Anzinger was born in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica in 1978. She began her tertiary education at the University of the West Indies, Mona in 1996 and went on to complete a BS from Washington College in 2001,^[3] where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Plant Physiology, and a PhD in Immunology and Microbiology from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago with a concentration in HIV Neuropathogenesis.^[1]

Career

She is the founder of New Local Space (NLS) in Kingston, Jamaica.^[4] Anzinger's writing has been published in Caribbean Quarterly^[5] and in Seen, a journal of the BlackStar Projects.

Exhibitions

• New Roots: 10 Emerging Artists, July 28–September 30, 2013, National Gallery of Jamaica^[6]
• Field Notes: Extracts, June 18, 2015 – September 27, 2015, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
• An Unlikely Birth, April 26–August 11, 2019, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia^[7]
• The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, July 18, 2019 – June 7, 2020, Pérez Art Museum Miami^[8]
• Resisting Paradise, September 19–December 8, 2019, Fonderie Darling, Montréal (Canada)^{[9] [10]}
• 35th Bienal de São Paulo, July, 2023 - December, 2024, Fundaçao Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)

Collections (selection)

• Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida^[11]

Awards and grants

• 2016 fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
• 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant^[12]
• 2020 Soros Arts Fellow^{[13] [14]}
• 2022 MacDowell

Bibliography

• Book: King . Daniella Rose . Purifoy . Danielle . Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth . 30 June 2021 . University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art . 978-0-88454-152-3 . en.

Further reading

• https://caricuk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CaribbeanInsecurities_ExhibitCatalogue2021.pdf
• https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844307
• https://bombmagazine.org/articles/labor-and-nature-deborah-anzinger-interviewed/
• https://www.centerforexperimentalethnography.org/events/memorializing-otherwise
• http://marshapearce.com/qanda/learning-the-hard-lessons/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Deborah Anzinger . National Gallery of Jamaica Blog . 6 August 2021 . en.
2. Web site: Deborah Anzinger - Erosion. 2021-08-25. Sargent's Daughters. en-US.
3. Web site: Deborah Anzinger - Erosion. 2021-08-06. Sargent's Daughters. en-US.
4. Web site: 2021-03-14. NLS creates vibrant space for artists. 2021-08-06. jamaica-gleaner.com. en.
5. Anzinger. Deborah. 2018-01-02. A piercing void where we meet. Caribbean Quarterly. 64. 1. 5–10. 10.1080/00086495.2018.1435289. 139795578. 0008-6495.
6. Web site: nationalgalleryofjamaica. 2013-07-17. New Roots: Deborah Anzinger. 2021-08-06. National Gallery of Jamaica Blog. en.
7. Web site: Holmes. Heather. 8 January 2020. Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth. 6 August 2021. Art Papers.
8. Web site: The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art. 2021-08-06. www.pamm.org.
9. Web site: Sirois-Rouleau. Dominique. 6 November 2019. Resisting Paradise, Fonderie Darling, Montréal esse arts + opinions. dead. 2021-08-06. esse.ca. 2021-08-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20210806181405/https://esse.ca/en/resisting-paradise-fonderie-darling-montreal.
10. Web site: Fonderie Darling Resisting Paradise . fonderiedarling.org . 6 August 2021.
11. Web site: The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art . 2023-05-19 . C& AMÉRICA LATINA . en.
12. Web site: October 10, 2018. Artforum.com. 6 August 2021. www.artforum.com.
13. Web site: Announcing the 2020 Soros Arts Fellows. 2021-08-06. www.opensocietyfoundations.org. en.
14. Web site: JAMAICAN SELECTED AS SOROS ART FELLOW Art Events. 2021-08-06. arteventsja.com.