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Omari RA Bio  

(Previously known as Robert Cookhorne and African)

1960
Born Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica

EDUCATION

Jamaica School of Art (Now Edna Manley College for the Visual Arts)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1990  
Suti Gallery, Bern, Switzerland

1985  
Suti Gallery, Bern, Switzerland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006               
National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
 
2004
Curator's Eye I, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston

2001            
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston

2000  
African Vanguard, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston

1999  
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston

1995 
New World Imagery: Contemporary Jamaican Art, National Touring Exhibitions, England/National Gallery of Jamaica, Kinsgton

1994 
Second Biennial of Caribbean and Central American Painting, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1995  
Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa

1994  
Fifth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 
Africa Stops Over, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands and Palau de la Virreeina, Barcelona, Spain

1993               
Home and Away: Seven Jamaican Artists, October Gallery, London

1992 
First Biennial of Caribbean and Central American Painting, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo,  Dominican Republic
1492/1992 Un Nouveau Regard Sur Les Caraibes, Espace Carpeaux,  Courbevoie, France                     
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston 
Entre Tropicos, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela

1991  
Homage to John Dunkley, National Galleryof Jamaica, Kingston
Aspects III, Eight Jamaican Avant Garde Artists, National Gallery of Jamaica,   Kingston

1987  
New Imagists in Jamaican Art, OAS Gallery, Washington DC                      
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston

1986  
Caribbean Art Now, Commonwealth Institute, Traveling exhibition, England

1985  
Young Talent ’85, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston