Andrae Green is a Jamaican painter whose work delves into the nuances of a collective consciousness shaped by memory, mythology, and the complexities of hybrid identity. Currently living and working in Western Massachusetts, Green’s art is a vibrant and chaotic exploration of his Caribbean heritage, which he describes as "a hybridization of both European and West African cultures... a little of Europe, a little of African and a lot in between."
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Green is a graduate of the Edna Manley School for the Visual and Performing Arts. He was later awarded a full scholarship to pursue his MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art. His career is marked by significant international recognition, including representing Jamaica at the 2012 Beijing Biennale and being selected for the American delegation at the 2013 Salon de Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. His work has been exhibited in the US, Jamaica, Canada, China, and France, and is held in numerous private collections. In a career highlight, his piece “Acquiescence I” was acquired by the National Museum of China in 2017.
Drawing inspiration from Cuban scholar Antonio Benitez Rojo’s concept of the Caribbean as a "chaotic system," Green uses the physical act of painting to merge these diverging worlds and give order to their chaos. He describes his process as an "active trance," where figures emerge on the canvas dancing, struggling, and playing—simultaneously connected and disconnected from themselves.
These figures embody the "disjointed collaged patchwork" of his own hybridized identity. They speak to a contemporary world where history, identity, and fantasy are interchangeable, and reality itself can be reinvented. Through his art, Green explores the "slippages that occur when the self and the space that it occupied is fractured and then put back together."
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Andrae Green is a Jamaican painter whose work delves into the nuances of a collective consciousness shaped by memory, mythology, and the complexities of hybrid identity. Currently living and working in Western Massachusetts, Green’s art is a vibrant and chaotic exploration of his Caribbean heritage, which he describes as "a hybridization of both European and West African cultures... a little of Europe, a little of African and a lot in between."
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Green is a graduate of the Edna Manley School for the Visual and Performing Arts. He was later awarded a full scholarship to pursue his MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art. His career is marked by significant international recognition, including representing Jamaica at the 2012 Beijing Biennale and being selected for the American delegation at the 2013 Salon de Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. His work has been exhibited in the US, Jamaica, Canada, China, and France, and is held in numerous private collections. In a career highlight, his piece “Acquiescence I” was acquired by the National Museum of China in 2017.
Drawing inspiration from Cuban scholar Antonio Benitez Rojo’s concept of the Caribbean as a "chaotic system," Green uses the physical act of painting to merge these diverging worlds and give order to their chaos. He describes his process as an "active trance," where figures emerge on the canvas dancing, struggling, and playing—simultaneously connected and disconnected from themselves.
These figures embody the "disjointed collaged patchwork" of his own hybridized identity. They speak to a contemporary world where history, identity, and fantasy are interchangeable, and reality itself can be reinvented. Through his art, Green explores the "slippages that occur when the self and the space that it occupied is fractured and then put back together."
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