About
Curriculum vitae (Selected from 2001 - present)
Roshini has degrees in Visual Communications, Photographic Studies and was awarded her PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008.One woman exhibitions/screenings:
2008 - Amendments – a prototype to the exhibition Domino Effects presented and screened at MERL, University of East London
2004 - 2005 - Roshini Kempadoo works: 1990 – 2004 a retrospective touring show opened at Leicester City Art Gallery and continued to tour nationally including to Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London UK.
Group exhibitions:
2010 - National Portrait Gallery. Format Photography Agency 1983 – 2003, London, Room 38a. (January – July).
2009 - 7th Encuentro: Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Museo de Artes, National University of Colombia, Bogotá.
Liminal: A Question of Position, inIVA, Rivington Place, London
2007 - Art & Emancipation In Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario And His Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven‚ Connecticut, USA. (Sep – Dec)
2005 - A Place Called Home exhibition curated by Zayd Minty featuring a selection of images from ‘Virtual Exiles’ continues to Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.
2002 - Artwork commission ‘Back Routes’ CD-Rom for the exhibition Travelogue: views of Britain by seven contemporary artists curated by Mary Griffiths for Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
2001 - Race In Digital Space curated by Erika Muhammad featuring ‘Virtual Exiles’ web site at the MITList Visual Arts Center, Bakalar Gallery (April – July)2001
New media exhibition Race In Digital Space curated by Erika Muhammad featuring ‘Virtual Exiles’ web site at the MITList Visual Arts Center, Bakalar Gallery.
Conference, Papers and Presentations (National and International):
2010 - Invited artist’s presentation: The Friday Event, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. (February) http://www.gsaevents.com/fridayevent/kempadoo
Invited speaker to Caribbean Literary Studies Group conference: Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture. The University of Miami, Coral Gables. http://www.as.miami.edu/cls/ (forthcoming)
2009 - Invited artist’s presentation, Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of Art, New York University, NY, USA. 6th October.
Keynote speaker for Media and the Global Diaspora 2009, Exploring Media in Caribbean Diasporas, Roger Williams University,
Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, 1 – 3 October 2009
http://newmediasymposium.org/program.html
Keynote speaker for Our History in our Hands: Towards Digital Sustainability for Minority Cultural Archives initiated by the Community Archives Research team, UCL and UntoldLondon, Museum of London, Docklands, 5th June.
Vertigo Talks 1: Virtual - at Iniva for Liminal: A Question of Position, Rivington Place, London. Sponsored by Vertigo Magazine. http://www.iniva.org/events/2009/virtual (April)
2008 - Invited guest speaker to the symposium cultural diversity, media and the creative arts conceived by the Goethe-Institut, the Alliance Française and the FOMACS (Forum on Migration and Communications), Dublin, Ireland.
‘Creole in the Archive: A Fictional Re-Imagining’ as guest speaker to UTT The Fellows’ Gatherings, The Academy at UTT for Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Barataria, Trinidad.
Invited guest speaker to the symposium Migration, Media, Archive held at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and organized by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in collaboration with Dundee and Napier Universities. (5th June) http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/calendar/5:367/5200
2007 - The Gilder Lehrman Center’s 9th Annual International Conference: The Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation: Jamaica in the Atlantic World, co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at Yale University.
2006 - Artist contribution to the tables rondes event, Salon Georges Bertrand, ?otel de Ville, Paris.
Invited panel contributor to Diasporic Futures: Women the Arts and Globalization one day conference organized by Roehampton, Loughborough and Kingston Universities at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
‘Traces in the Here and Now: Black British Creativity in Photography, Film, and Multi-Media.’ Conference panel member/convenor at “Black” British Aesthetics Today: The Howard University Symposium, Washington DC, USA.
2004 - ‘Black Diaspora Artists, Past and Present’ event organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London in conjunction with inIVA and the History Workshop Journal at Conway Hall, London (November) including keynote address by Professor Stuart Hall.
Professional Experience:
2008 - Visiting Scholar to ‘The Global City and Media Ethnography: Practice-led Transcultural Media Research’ New York University Summer Study Abroad Program at the American University Paris.
2006 & 7 - Visiting Research Fellow to ‘The Global City and Media Ethnography: Dublin Summer School in Practice-led Transcultural Research and Media Practice’ organized by The Department of Culture and Communication and the Visual Culture Programme, Arts and Arts Professions, Steinhardt School of Education - New York University, in collaboration with The Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Faculty of Applied Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland.
2005 - 8th Festival of the Dhow Countries (tamasha la nchi za jahazi), Zanzibar. Invited, attended and exhibited ‘Virtual Exiles’(DVD) as part of the festival.
2005 - Invitation to the editorial board meeting for the ‘Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color’ publication and the 2005 Public Colloquium, University of Maryland, USA.
2004 - ‘Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color’ at the International Bellagio Conference, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy. This was organised by the African American Studies Department, University of Maryland, USA as a week-long residential conference/symposium of 24 international women academics held at the prestigious Bellagio Study and Conference Center
2001 - Two week International Artists residency Cyfuniad Artists workshop in collaboration with Triangle Arts Trust, London; Oriel Mostyn and Bluecoat Arts Centre. (August)
Participation in Advisory, Examination duties and Committees:
2009 - present - Affiliate member of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London.
2009 - External examiner for validation panel of the PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Documentary Practice, DIT, Dublin. (May)
2006 - 09 Founder member of Culture Rights
http://www.culturerights.co.uk
2006 - present - External Examiner for BA (Hons) Photography at the department of Visual Communications, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.
2006 - Guest faculty member of the centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology
2002– 2006 - Board member for Rich Mix Arts Trust, the development of a Media Arts space for East London.
2001 – 2004 - External Examiner for the Faculty of Arts – University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
2000 – 2002 - Member of the New Media and Photography panel for the ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND
PUBLISHED MATERIAL, NET SITES, TELEVISION AND RADIO COVERAGE
2010 - Publications featuring my work:
Willis, D. (ed.). (2010). Black Venus 2010: They Called Her 'Hottentot'. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. g11 – g13. Plates: 4a, 4f, 4d, 4e, 4b.
Wolf, S. (2010). The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age. Munich: Prestel Verlag GmbH & Co KG. (forthcoming)
2009 - Francis, J., "To Be Real: Figuring Blackness in Modern and Contemporary African Diaspora Visual Cultures." Black Radical History Review: Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora (103) Winter 2009: pp.188 - 202.
Kempadoo, R. (2009). "Amendments: Digital Griots as Traces of Resistance." Small Axe: A Caribbean platform for criticism 13 (1): pp. 181-191. Plates: 183, 184, 185, 186 - 187, 188, 189, 190, 191.
2007 - Hall, S (2007). The Legacies of Anglo-Caribbean Culture – A Diasporic Perspective In Barringer, T., Forrester, G., & Martinez-Ruiz, B., eds. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds. New Haven and London, Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007, pp. 179 - 194.
2004
catalogues:
Roshini Kempadoo Work 1990 – 2004 to accompany the touring show – produced by OVA. isbn: 1-899127-05-4
A Place Called Home: A contemporary Art show with Artists from the South Asian Diaspora – published by One, Durban/Cape Town, South Africa. isbn: 0-620-32463-5
Racing the Cultural Interface: African Diasporic Identities in the Digital Age – published by MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada. isbn: 1-894518-21-7
2002
Publications: Willis, D & Williams, C (2002) The Black Female Body: A Photographic History Temple University Press, USA (February)
(ISBN: 1-56639-928-9)
2000
Publications: Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity by Gen Doy. IB Tauris, London. Reflections in Black by Deborah Willis published by WW. Norton USA.