Camille Chedda

Camille Chedda was born in Manchester, Jamaica. She graduated from the Edna Manley College with an Honours Diploma in Painting and received an MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. 

Her works have been featured in numerous exhibitions including the Jamaica Biennial at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Insides at NLS Kingston, “…and I resumed the struggle.” at The Olympia Gallery and Relational Undercurrents at the Museum of Latin American Art. 

She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Albert Huie Award, the Reed Foundation Scholarship, the inaugural Dawn Scott Memorial Award, the British Council’s TAARE Program Award and the Catapult SHAR Grant. She has been an artist in residence at Alice Yard in Trinidad, Art Omi in New York, Hospitalfield in Scotland, the Catapult Stay Home Artist Residency and the HOMO Sargassum Art Residency. She is the Project Manager of the Rubis Mecenat’s InPulse Art Project, and lectures at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. Chedda lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.