Born (1995), Cayman Islands.
Lives and works between London and Cayman Islands.



Education:

MA Painting, Royal College of Art. London, UK. (2024 - present)
DipHE in Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. London, UK. (2022 - 2024)
Correspondence Course, TURPS BANANA, London, UK. (2020 - 2022)
Fine Art Foundation, Art Academy London, UK. (2015 - 2016)



Solo Exhibitions:

2022

  • "a heron amongst the storm" - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands


Group Exhibitions:


2025

  • [ forthcoming: “Archipelago” - 4th Cayman Islands Biennale, NGCI ]
  • [ forthcoming: “RCA MA Painting, Postgraduate Exhibition”, The Royal College of Art, London, UK ]
  • [ forthcoming: “EXPO Chicago” – TERN Gallery,  Nassau, Bahamas. ]


2024

  • “UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami” – TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas.
  • “Evolutions” – National Collection, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.
  • “Gestures of the Unseen” - TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas.
  • “Apollo’s Decathlon: The Conceptual Olympiad” - Château de Montsoreau, Musée d’Art Contemporain, France.
  • “The Nomenclature of Colours III” - The Slade School of Fine Art, Corner 7. London, UK.
  • “Foundations” - Black Pony Gallery, Bermuda.

2023

  • “81° West“ - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.
  • “Atlantic World Art Fair III” - Black Pony Gallery, Bermuda.
  • “Conversations with the Past - In the Present Tense” - 3rd Cayman Islands Biennale, NGCI.
  • "The Ties That Bind" - National Collection, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.

2022

  • "Caribbean Linked VI" - Atelier 89’, Aruba.
  • ​"Atlantic World Art Fair II" - Black Pony Gallery x Cayman Art Week, Bermuda/Cayman Islands.
  • "The People's Collection: A 25 Year Legacy" - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands

2021

  • "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - TURPS BANANA, cohort.art, London, UK.
  • “Reimagined Futures” - 2nd Cayman Islands Biennale, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.

2020

  • "Saltwater in Their Veins" - National Collection, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.
  • "Paulo" - PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal.
  • "Island of Women" - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.



Awards:

Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Royal College of Art (2024 - 2025)
Cayman Islands Government: Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient (2024 - 2025)
Curators Choice - Atlantic World Art Fair, Black Pony Gallery, Artsy (2023)
Painters' Stainers Company Award & Scholarship Nominee, UCL (2023)
Cayman Islands Government: Overseas Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient (2022 - 2024)
CATAPULT II Grant - Fresh Milk Barbados, AFJ, Kingston Creative (2022)
CNCF Grants for the Arts (2022)
Proud of Them, Honouree. Cayman Islands Government (2021 - 2023)
Certificate of Commendation: 2nd Cayman Islands Biennale (2021)
CATAPULT Grant - Fresh Milk Barbados, AFJ, Kingston Creative (2020)
NGCI "Artist Abroad" Grant (2020, 2022, 2024)
Ministry of Culture, Educational Grant (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)


Residencies:

PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal (2023)
Caribbean Linked VI (2022)
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture: Fall Marathon (2021)
Caribbean Linked VI Online (2021)
PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal (2020)


Talks:

“John Reno Jackson”, Interview by Daisy Gould - Young Artists in Conversation (2024)

"In conversation: John Reno Jackson & Bryant McLaughlin Van-Low" - Young Space, Sankofa Archive, RCABLK (2024)

"Gestures of the Unseen", with Amanda Coulson, Demetrius Wilson, Debra Cartwright - TERN Gallery (2024)

"Black Box, John Reno Jackson", with Elvis Lopez, Katherine Kennedy  - Caribbean Linked VI, Atelier 89, Fresh Milk Barbados. (2022)

"a heron amongst the storm: Artist and Curator Q&A", with William Helfrecht - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (2022)

"Business of Art", with Simon Tatum - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. (2022)

"Ask the Experts: Art", with Kerri-Anne Chisholm - Connect by Nova (2021)

"Live Discussion", with Claudio Arnell, Romelinda Maldonado, Samuel Sarmiento, Béliza Troupé. - Caribbean Linked Virtual Edition, Atelier 89, Fresh Milk Barbados. (2021)

"2nd Cayman Biennale, Artist Talks", with Leonard Dilbert, David Bridgeman, Davin Ebanks - NGCI (2021)

"Culture and Heritage Seminar", with J.A Roy Bodden, Hon. Isaac Rankine, MP. - Leadership Cayman (2021)


Notable Collections:

National Gallery of the Cayman Islands
Central Bank of The Bahamas
The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Grand Cayman
​Cricket Square, Grand Cayman
Palm Heights Hotel, Grand Cayman
Hotel Indigo, Grand Cayman
CML/Nova, Grand Cayman

Private collections in: Aruba, Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Portugal, UK, and USA.

Selected Press


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