About the Artist
Margaret Chen
“I cannot sever the past from my present works. Wherever I stand, whatever I do, my history is very much a part of my work, its base lying in the sum total of selected fragments from the past.”
Margaret Chen is a Jamaican sculptor of Chinese descent. Educated at the Jamaica School of Art (EMSVPA), she left Jamaica after graduating with distinction to pursue post-graduate studies in Canada at York University, Ontario where she earned a BFA with Honours in 1984, and MFA in 1986.
It was in Canada that she began her career as a sculptor, exhibiting in a number of Toronto galleries with increasing success. In the late 1980s Margaret chose to return to Jamaica for her first solo exhibition at the Upstairs Downstairs Galleries; to establish her studio, and to become an important contributor to group exhibitions locally and to exhibit her work in Jamaican exhibitions abroad.
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