Photo © Kelly Sinnapah Mary, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Studio Zaigo
Ep.246 Kelly Sinnapah Mary (b. 1981, Saint-François, Guadeloupe) creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinnapah Mary’s work is rooted both materially and narratively in the artist’s immediate environment of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, and her own evolving understanding of her ancestral origins. Her work has been shown both in Guadeloupe and internationally at institutions including Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Peréz Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India; and the Osage Foundation, Hong Kong.
Artist https://kellysinnapahmary.wixsite.com/kelly-sinnapah-mary
James Cohan https://www.jamescohan.com/artists/kelly-sinnapah-mary
Kadist https://kadist.org/program/the-plantation-plot/
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/997002/the-shapeshifting-paintings-of-kelly-sinnapah-mary/
Aicon https://www.aicon.art/exhibitions/kelly-sinnapah-mary
Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/03/06/artist-kelly-sinnapah-mary-painting
ICI https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/23413-kelly-sinnapah-mary
The Book of Violette: To their volcanoes, to their earthquake, to their hurricanes, 2025
© Kelly Sinnapah Mary 2025. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
The Book of Violette: Moving Mountains, 2025
© Kelly Sinnapah Mary 2025. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
The Book of Violette: Man Yaya taught me about plants, 2025
© Kelly Sinnapah Mary 2025. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
The Book of Violette: Invisible Vegetation of Desire, 2025
© Kelly Sinnapah Mary 2025. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Dan Bradica.
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