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Hope Brooks Bio  

1944
Born Kingston, Jamaica
Currently lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica

EDUCATION
1980 - 1981
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.

1963 - 1967 
Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1995
Musgrave Laureate Exhibition. National Galley of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1993
Chelsea Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

1989
The Garden Series. Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica 

1986
Bonagree Gallery Commonwealth Institute, London, England

1986
Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

1983
Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

1980
Upstairs Downstairs Gallery, Kingston

1978
Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Gallery Giammaica, Los Angeles, California
Madge Sinclair’s Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

1976
Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

1974
John Peartree Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

1972
Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2005
Modern Jamaican Art through the works of Six Female Artists. Grand Valley State University, 2005 (GVSU), Michigan, USA
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2004
Curator’s Eye. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2003
Soon Come, The Art of Contemporary Jamaica. Touring exhibition organized by Nebraska Arts Council, USA, 2002 - 2003
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Rousings. Exhibition of Jamaican Art. National Gallery of Cayman, Cayman Islands.

2002
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2001
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2000
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1999
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1998
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1997
Black as Colour. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1992
1942 - 1992, Un Nouveau Regard Sur Les Caraibes. Espace Carpeaux, Courbevoie, France
Exposition Entretropicos. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela, 1992 Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1991
Dunkley Centenary Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1990
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1989
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1988
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1987
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1986
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1983-1985
Jamaican Art 1940 to 1980.  Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, SITES

1983
Group Exhibition. Eubie Blake Cultural Centre, Baltimore, USA
Male & Female Created He Them. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1975
Thirty Jamaican Artists.  Cultural Exhibition in Mexico City, Mexico
Contemporary Art of the Caribbean. Organization of the American States, Washington, D.C.
Caribbean & Afro American Female Artists. New York, USA

1974
Contemporary Jamaican Art Exhibition. Casa De Las Americas Museum, Havana, Cuba

1969
Exhibition with Pat Bishop. USIS Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica


AWARDS
1994
Silver Musgrave Medal, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

1981
Rotary Foundation Fellowship

1980
Centenary Medal, Institute of Jamaica