About
Judith Salmon
A Primal Power
“… What strikes me about Judith Salmon’s work right from the start is her striking originality on the one side of the equation and on the other its almost totemic archetypal power, such as we find in purely native objects of art. This primal power brings one into the presence of a woman who straddles two very different dimensions of time and place: on the one hand a very earthy mother-like healing dimension evocative of rural Jamaican life, and yet still evoking (simultaneously) the self portrait of a very contemporary, urban woman artist found through the developed world.”
Stephen D. Salamone, MA, PhD
St. Peterburg, Florida
Selected Art Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025
2010
2007
2006
2004
2003
2003
2002
2002
Home to Self, Olympia Art Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.
Open to Memory, Salt Creek Artworks, St. Petersburg, FL.
Travelers…All, MFA Thesis Exhibition- Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, VT.
Carriers of the Dream, the Wolfe Center Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Recent Works, Ashanti Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.
Narratives, Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, Vermont.
Center for Cultural Pluralism, University of Vermont
Conference: Gendering the Diaspora, Brace Commons, Dartmouth College, NH.
Crossings, Catamount Art Gallery, St. Johnsbury, VT.
Group Exhibitions
2023, 25
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2016
2015
2014
2010
1995
Global Focus: Women in Arts and Culture, United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, co-sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
Experience Jamaique, Geneva, Switzerland: Freedom Soon Cum, a virtual exhibition of prints.
“Di TimesChange..”: Climate Change and Fine Art Printmakers of Jamaica, UWI Regional Headquarters.
“Jamaica, Jamaica”, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston.
Fine Art Print Exhibition, UWI Regional Headquarters, Mona, Kingston.
Voyaging Towards the Future, Cage Gallery, EMCVPA.
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston.
Cultural Routes, Studio@620, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Memories and the Carriage of Feet, Kroma Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Seven Women Artists, Explorations 111, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston.
Outside the Box, Installation Biennial, Appleton Museum, Ocala, Florida.
Entre Los Mundos, Centro Experimental de Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
Lectures and Presentations
2019
2018
2017
2016
Presentation – Palimpsest: Erasing, Re-covering, Re-making, Rex Nettleford Arts Conference, Edna Manley College, Jamaica.
Guest Lecturer - Art and Memory, Miami Dade College - Dept of Art and Phil.
Presentation- Printing and Making Prints, Rex Nettleford Arts Conference, EMCVPA.
On Preservation of Artwork, UWI Mona Library.
A Visual Artist with experience as an educator, muralist, printmaker and mixed media practitioner.
Cultural Projects and Voluntary Work
2019, '22
2017
Convened two Fine Art Print Exhibitions, UWI-Regional Headquarters, Mona.
Art & Craft consultant for a Craft Development Institute, TPDCo & Zyacom.
Designed and produced a mosaic panel (4ft x 2ft) for Riverton City, UNDEP.
2016
2015
Member of the Council of the Institute of Jamaica.
2013, '14
2013, '14
Summer Art Programme for at-risk youths, Holy Trinity Cathedral Community.
Participatory Action Research- Art with at-risk children, Post Graduate Studies in Visual
Anthropology, University of South Florida.
2015
2011
Education
2011
Graduate Certificate – Museum Studies, USF, Tampa, Florida.
2007
MFA –Studio art, Johnson State College, Vermont.
B.A. Liberal Arts, Norwich University- Vermont College, VT.
2001
1974
Certificate - Painting, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
1974
Collections
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Bank of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida
The Archives, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The World Bank Art Society, Washington D.C., USA
Private Collections
Articles
2025
2010
2007
Travelers…All, MFA Thesis Exhibition- Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, VT.
2006
Carriers of the Dream, the Wolfe Center Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
2004
2003
2003
2002
2002
Home to Self, Olympia Art Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.
Open to Memory, Salt Creek Artworks, St. Petersburg, FL.
Recent Works, Ashanti Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.
Narratives, Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, Vermont.
Center for Cultural Pluralism, University of Vermont
Conference: Gendering the Diaspora, Brace Commons, Dartmouth College, NH.
Crossings, Catamount Art Gallery, St. Johnsbury, VT.