Sheena Rose Explained

Sheena Rose
Birth Date:	1985
Nationality:	Barbadian
Alma Mater:	University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Known For:	Animation, drawing, painting, performance art, new media

Sheena Rose (born 1985)^[1] is a contemporary Caribbean multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Barbados.^{[2] [3]}

She is a Fulbright scholar and holds a BFA Honors degree from Barbados Community College, 2008, as well as an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016.^[4]

Career

Sheena Rose has been a participant in the Havana Biennial, Venice Biennial, Gwangju Bienniale, Jamaica Biennial. In addition, she has exhibited her work in the MoCADA,^[5] Queens Museum, KMAC Museum,^[6] Turner Contemporary Gallery, and Residency Gallery.^{[7] [8]}

In 2019, her work was included in the Perez Art Museum Miami.^[9] The Weatherspoon Art Museum commissioned a mural from Rose, entitled Pause and Breathe, We Got This, for their first-floor atrium space in 2021.

Rose has participated in many public art projects, such as designing bus shelters in Des Moines, Iowa,^{[10] [11] [12]} and completing a two story mural at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., which also includes three of her paintings in its collection.^[13] Rose performed her piece Island and Monster at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and MoCADA, NYC in 2017.^{[14] [15]}

In a 2017 profile featured in The New York Times, Rose mentioned Ebony G. Patterson, Christopher Cozier, and Richard Mark Rawlins among her sources of inspiration within the artistic community in the Caribbean.^[16]

Emma Watson listed Sheena Rose as one of her favorite artists in a 2018 Vogue article.^[17] Rose received the 2020–2021 Distinguished Alumni Award from UNC Greensboro's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Awards

Her internationally acclaimed work has been recognized through:

• Award for Culture, Barbados, nominated by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, 2022^[18]
• Recipient of the Greensboro School of Art Distinguished Alumni award, October 2020
• Funded by the National Cultural Foundation for a solo show located in Barbados, September 2020
• Fulbright Scholarship recipient in 2014
• Barbados Arts and Sports Funds, May 2012
• The Prince Claus Foundation, June 2011
• Funded to participate in an artist's residency at Tembe Art Studio located in Moengo, Suriname.
• The Sixth Carmichael Prize Award, December 2011
• Lesley's Legacy Foundation grant, December 2010
• Triangle Art Trusts travel grant, Triangle Art Trust, May 2010
• Recipient of the Triangle Art Trust to participate in an artist's residency in Cape Town, South Africa

References

1. Web site: Sheena Rose: Dramatically Removing the Landscape . Whitewall . 28 December 2021.
2. Web site: 2019-07-03. Sheena Rose: Creativity to Inspire the Caribbean Economy. 2020-06-30. Panamerican World.
3. Web site: 2021. Sheena Rose: Pause and Breathe, We Got This. 2021-10-26. Weatherspoon Art Museum.
4. News: Sheena Rose — BLCK PRISM. BLCK PRISM. 2020-06-30.
5. Web site: From the Mythic to the Personal, Two Artists Envision Womanhood. 29 April 2015.
6. Web site: Sheena Rose. 2020-06-30. kmacmuseum.
7. Web site: 2017-02-27. Sheena Rose 'Island and Monster'. 2020-06-30. ICF International Curators Forum.
8. News: Best. Tamara. 2017-05-31. The Artist Sheena Rose Is Reaching Beyond Barbados. The New York Times. 2020-06-30. 0362-4331.
9. Web site: Fleuranvil. Fabiola. November 29, 2019. Work by black artists abounds this year during Art Week Miami. Here's where to find it. Miami Herald.
10. Web site: 2020-04-23. Sheena shines ... Award-winning artist tells her story through works. 2020-06-30. Barbados Today.
11. Web site: See new and upcoming public art across the Des Moines metro. 2020-06-30. Des Moines Register.
12. Web site: Sheena Rose. 2020-06-30. Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation.
13. Web site: Sheena Rose art on display at IDB Headquarters. 2020-06-30. www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
14. Web site: Performance art by Sheena Rose: 'Island and Monster' Event Royal Academy of Arts. 2020-06-30. www.royalacademy.org.uk.
15. News: 2017-03-05. Sheena Rose: performance 'Island and Monster' Thoughts and reflections ICF International Curators Forum. ICF International Curators Forum. 2020-06-30.
16. News: Best . Tamara . 2017-05-31 . The Artist Sheena Rose Is Reaching Beyond Barbados . The New York Times . 2023-05-24 . 0362-4331.
17. Web site: 2018-03-07. 18 feminist artists Emma Watson loves and you will too. 2020-06-30. Vogue Australia.
18. Web site: British personality Miquita Oliver rocks first Sheena Rose dress in UK Loop Barbados . 2023-05-24 . Loop News.