FULL RESUME

SAMERE TANSLEY 
P.O. Box 344 
Stony Hill 
Kingston 9 
Jamaica, West Indies 
Tel.(876)  339 9470 
email: sameretansley@yahoo.com 
www.sameresgallery.com 


Born: Worcestershire, England 
Resident: Jamaica, since 1970
(became a Jamaican citizen 1975-holds dual Nationality.)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2015 Open Studio Show, Stony Hil,l Kingston
1988-05 Annual Open Studio Show, Stony Hill, Kingston 
1999 Artifex Gallery. Sutton Coldfield, B’ham, England 
1999 ‘Jamaica Blue’, London, England 
1999 Summer Studio Show, Stony Hill, Kingston 
1998 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica 
1997 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Kingston 
1997 Masterworks Foundation, Hamilton. Bermuda 
1986 Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston 
1984 Community Centre Gallery, Hammersmith, London, England 
1983 Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston 
1979 Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston 
1975 Kingston & St. Andrew Parish Library, Kingston 

MUSEUM SHOWS 

2012 /2017 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica - (invited artist)
2013 ‘Religion and Spirituality’ The National Gallery of Jamaica

1991 ‘Homage to John Dunkley’, National Gallery of Jamaica  
1990 - 2011 Annual National Art Exhibition -Invited Exhibitor, National Gallery of Jamaica
1977-89 Annual National Art Exhibition, The National Gallery, Kingston 
-Juried Exhibitor 
Represented in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica 

KEY OVERSEAS EXHIBITIONS 
2005 Group Juried Show, Royal Society of Birmingham Artists (R.B.S.A.) U.K. 
2000 ‘Where They are Now’, Graduate Students of Stourbridge College, U.K. 
1999 ‘Jamaica to Brooklyn’, Selena Gallery / Long Island University, Brooklyn Annex, New York, USA 
1991 ‘Jamaican Art’, Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 
1991 ‘The Jamaican Landscape’, Gallery Malreaux, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


JOINT EXHIBITIONS 

1989 ‘Seya & Samere’, with Seya Parboosingh, Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston 
1985 ‘Three Women’, with Rachel Fearing & Judith Salmon, Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston 

MAJOR SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 
2011 ‘The Imaginative and the Real’ Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston
2007 ‘Still Lives - 10 Contemporary Artists’ Seaview Fine Arts, Kingston 
2004 ‘Eight of the Great’ Bolivar Gallery, Kingston 
2001 Mixed Show, Gallery 9, Birmingham, England
1991-96 ‘The Forerunners’ Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston 
1986 Contemporary Arts Centre- 1st. Anniversary Show, Kingston 
1986 E.M.S.V.A. Tutors Exhibition - C.A.C. Gallery 
1986 Rotary Club Art Show, Pegasus Hotel, Kingston 
1986 ‘Art Against Apartheid’ Makonde Gallery, Kingston 
1984 E.M.S.V.A. Tutors Show Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston 
1983 E.M.S.V.A. Tutors Show Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 
1983 ‘Festival 21” Upstairs-Downstairs Gallery Kingston 
1982 ‘Celebration’& ’Out of Many’ Upstairs Downstairs Gallery, Kingston 
1982 Exhibition commemorating the U.N. Year Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston 
1982 ‘The Thirteen” Exhibition, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston 
1981 International Women’s Day Exhibition, Upstairs, Downstairs Gallery 
1980 E.M.S.V.A. Tutors Exhibition, Diplomat Gallery, Kingston 
1977 I.W.D. Women’s Art Exhibition, Mutual Life Gallery.Also1981 and 1978 
1977 International Conference on Youth, Havana, Cuba 
1976 Jamaica Artist & Craftsmen Guild, Inaugural Show, Pegasus Hotel , Kingston, and many other group shows with the J.A.C.G. 
1975 Jamaica Festival Exhibition - also 1976,1981,82,83, and 1985 
1975 Caribbean Women Artists Exhibition, Olympia International Arts Centre, Kgn. 
AWARDS 

1986 Vox Populi Prize - Rotary Club Art Show, Pegasus Hotel Kingston 
1985 Silver Medal - Painting : Annual Jamaican Independence Festival Exhibition 

REVIEWS AND MENTIONS 

Jamaica Journal: Vol.16 no.3,August1983; Vol.18 no.1, April 1995; and Vol.18 no. 2,July !985 
Arts Jamaica : Vol.1 no. 4, March 1983 & Vol. 11 No. 4, May 1984 
Jamaica Daily Newspapers: The Gleaner, The Star, The Daily News and The Observer. 
The International Who’s Who of Women First Edition, Europa Publications, London 
England,1992. 
The Contemporary Who’s Who 2002/2003 Pub. American Biographical Institute 

INVITED LECTURES 

1993 ‘The Visual & Plastic Arts in Jamaica-with a Gender Perspective’, 
to visiting students from the School of International Learning, Brattleboro; Vermont, USA 
1985 ‘Many Cultures-Many Arts” I.N.S.E.A.[International non-Government World 
Organization for Education through Art] VIII Regional Congress, Bat 




TEACHING 

2004- 2012 Edna Manley College for the Visual & Performing 
Arts, Kingston (Painting lecturer, part-time) 
1979-94 Edna Manley College for the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica,[Painting lecturer, part-time] 
1979-81 Creative Arts Centre, University of the West Indies 
[Part-time, evening classes] 
1970-80 Camperdown High School, Kingston, Jamaica 
1968-69 North Paddington Secondary School, London 
1965-68 De Lucy Primary School, Abbey Wood, London 

OTHER WORK 
 2000 - Board member of the Natural History Society of Jamaica
1987 Founding member of Women’s Media Watch, Jamaica 
1982-83 Contributed articles to ‘Arts Jamaica’ Magazine-’Studio Talk 
1979-82 Treasurer, Jamaica Artist & Craftsmen Guild 
1976-79 Secretary, Jamaica Artist & Craftsmen Guild [This post involved arranging shows at the Mutual Life Gallery] 
1978-80 Illustrated three Children’s reading books for Heinemann’s 
Educational Books, Primary Language Arts series. 

EDUCATION 

1977-78 Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts, Kingston, Jamaica 
-Post-Graduate Studies in painting 
1969-70 Goldsmiths College, University of London 
-Art Teachers Certificate. 
1964-66 Central School of Art, London - Post-Diploma Studies 
-[mural-painting, stained-glass & enamel-painting] 
1962-64 Birmingham College of Art, England 
-N.D.D.[painting special] 
1959-62 Stourbridge College of Art, England 
-Intermediate Examination in Art & Craft. 

2017