CV

CV – Asher Mains

(b, 1984 – )

E d u c a t i o n

2014 – 2016 MFA, Creative Practice, Transart Institute, Plymouth University, UK

2011 – 2012, International Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

2010 – 2011, Entrepreneurship, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

2008 – 2010 Studio Art, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas

2002 – 2006 B.A. Interdisciplinary (Communications Arts & Sciences, Religion, Sociology), Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

2005 University of Ghana, Music and Cultural Studies, Accra, Ghana

P r o f e s s i o n a l

Lecturer 2016 – Current: St. George’s University, School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, True Blue, Grenada.

Founder and director 2015 – Current: Art School Greenz: An alternative art school in Grenada designed to mind the gap between secondary school and a contemporary art practice.

Gallery Director – Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada.

Grenada Arts Council 2018  – President

Director of Art House 473

S o l o / D u o  E x h i b i t i o n s

2017 “Sea Lungs and Glitter”, Dual Show with Amy Cannestra, Waving Art Gallery, Maurice Bishop International Airport

2017 “Derek Walcott’s, The Sea is History” Memorial tribute, Navy’s Officer Club, Venice, Italy.

2017 “Sea Lungs”, Solo Show, Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2016 “Society: Cocoa”: Cocoa Farmers in Grenada, Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada.

2016 “Lions, Fish, and Vestiges of Gold”, Dual show with Susan Mains, Gallery of Caribbean Art, Speightstown, Barbados.

2014 “Painted Portraits for Cocoa Farmers”, Solo Show, Crayfish Bay Organic Cocoa Estate, Nonpareil, Grenada

2014 “Re/Vision: Twenty Years of Exhibiting Art in Grenada”, Solo Show, Art and Soul Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2014 “Grafted Narratives”, Dual Show with Susan Mains, Gallery of Caribbean Art, Speightstown, Barbados

2012 “Everything is Peachy in Babylon”, Solo Show, Gallery of Caribbean Art, Speightstown, Barbados

2010 “Transitions” – Solo Show, Holetown, Barbados. A-Gallery at the Mews Restaurant.

2008 “Caribbean Collage”, Susan Mains, Asher Mains. Speightstown, Barbados. Gallery of Caribbean Art.

2006 “Young Men Paint Life!”: Gilbert Nero, Asher Mains, Grenada Arts Council exhibition space, Lagoon Road, Grenada

2001 Jazz Festival Dual Show: Susan Mains, Asher Mains

B i e n n a l e s

2017 57th Biennale di Venezia, Grenada National Pavilion, “The Bridge”, Venice, Italy

2015 Trio Bienal, “Reverberations – Crossed Borders of Three Dimensionality” Instituto Europeo do Design – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2015 56th Biennale di Venezia, Grenada National Pavilion, “Present Nearness”, Venice, Italy

A r t  F a i r s

2016 Artigo Rio Art Fair, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2016 Rhy Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2016 Feria Arte Medellin, Colombia

G r o u p  E x h i b i t i o n s

2018 “BIG works show”, Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2018 “Westindian Squared”: Susan Mains, Virgil Broodhagen and Catherine Cheeatow, Asher Mains, Gallery of Caribbean Art, Speightstown, Barbados

2017 Grenada Contemporary Exhibit, “Westindian”, Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada.

2017 Collective Exhibit, Lower Level Creative Space, Denver, Colorado.

2016 Grenada Contemporary Exhibit, “The Bridge”, Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2016, WateRED: In Dialogue with artists Omar Shoukri and Lindey Anderson, Berlin, Germany.

2016, International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Dialogue with Reality of Guarani Culture, Santa Rosa, Bolivia.

2015 Grenada Contemporary Exhibit, “State of Flux”, Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2015 “Loose Affairs”, Transart Institute Group Show, SomoS Art Project Space, Berlin, Germany

2015 Grenada Chocolate Festival Exhibit, Art and Soul Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2014 Grenadian Contemporary Exhibit, Art and Soul Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2011 – 2013 Grenada Arts Council “Little Jewels” Exhibit. St. George’s, Grenada.

2012 Grenada Arts Council Carnival Exhibit. St. George’s, Grenada

2011 Grenada Revolution and Art: From the Artists’ Perspective, St. George’s, Grenada

2010 Expo 2010 Shanghai, China, Grenada Pavilion

2010 Grenada Arts Council Annual Exhibit, 300 Years, Town of St. George’s. St. George’s, Grenada.

2007 “Between”, Rex Grenadian, Grenada. Asher Mains, Susan Mains, Rene Froehlich, and Oliver Benoit

2005 “The Artists of Grenada”, Art Curators Gallery, St. Ann’s, Trinidad

2002 “Exhibit of Grenadian Art,” OAS Gallery Washington D.C.: Oliver Benoit, Christine Matuschek, Susan Mains, Asher Mains

2002 Jazz Festival, Grenada

2001 “Beyond Walls” Group Show, University of the West Indies Country Conference, Grenada

1995 Grenada Arts Council Annual Exhibit, GAC “Artists Expression of Music” Best in Show Prize

1994 Grenada Independence Exhibition, University of the West Indies, Marryshow House, St. George’s, Grenada.

1994 – 2018 Grenada Arts Council Annual Exhibit, St. George’s, Grenada

C u r a t i n g

2018 Natural Forms, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada

2018 Art School Greenz Young Artists Rising Summer Intensive, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada.

2018 Solo Exhibit: Rene Froehlich, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada.

2018 Co-curated “BIG works exhibit”: Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada

2018 New Work: John Henry, Kristianne Buxo, Fred Grissom, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada.

2018 Art School Greenz Assemblage and Stencils Exhibit, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada.

2017 100% Amazing Luke: The Figurative Sculptures of Godfrey Luke, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada.

2017 Art School Greenz Intro to Oil Painting Class Paintings, Waving Art Gallery, Point Salines, Grenada.

R e s i d e n c i e s

2016 Transart Summer Residency – Berlin, Germany

2016 Contemporary Art in Conversation with the Guarani People – Santa Rosa, Bolivia

2016 Transart Winter Residency – Manhattan, New York, United States

2015 Transart Summer Residency – Berlin, Germany

2015 Transart Winter Residency – Manhattan, New York, United States

2014 Crayfish Bay Organic Cocoa Estate – Nonpariel, Grenada, West Indies

2014 Transart Summer Residency – Berlin, Germany

C u r r e n t G a l l e r i e s

Susan Mains Gallery, Grand Anse, Grenada, West Indies.

Gallery of Caribbean Art, Speightstown, Barbados, West Indies

C o r p o r a t e  C o l l e c t i o n s

True Blue Bay Resort, Grenada

Ministry of Tourism, Grenada

Le Phare Bleu, Grenada

Cathedral Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, Bolivia

Royal Collection, Great Britain

La Luna, Grenada