Exhibitions

Susan L. Shirley

Susan L. Shirley - Jamaica

Artist

Rio Nuevo Battle Site, Rio Nuevo, St. Mary, Jamaica West Indies

Susan Lea Roberts

Michigan U.S.A.

Exhibitions, Paintings and Prints

by Susan L. Shirley

2000 - 2012 (most recent first)

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 1979: John Peartree Gallery, Kingston

• 1980: Tawas Artist, Tawas, Michigan

• 1981: Upstairs/Downstairs Gallery, Kingston

• 1982: Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston

• 1983: Round House Gallery, Montego Bay

• 1988: Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios

• 1987: Savacou Gallery, Toronto

• 1988: Harmony Hall, Antigua

• 1989: Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston

• 1991: Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios

• 1993: Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios

• 1994: Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios (w N. Harrack)

• 1997: Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios

• 2012: Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, JA

MAJOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 1980-2008: National Annual/Bi-Annual Exhib., Kgn

• 1981-1987: Annual Festival Exhibition, Kingston

• 1991: Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami

• 1992: Jamaica to Brooklyn, New York

• 1992: National Gallery Art Fair and Auction, Kingston

• 1999: Matalon Collection, National Gallery, Kingston

• 2007: Ten Artists – Still Life, Seaview Gallery, Kingston

• 2010: Haiti Relief - Art Auction, Nat'l Gallery, Kgn JA

• 1988-2011: Harmony Hall Annual Anniversary Exhibition

2011

November

Harmony Hall

Annual Anniversary

Invitational Exhibition

St. Mary, Jamaica

Speaker: Hon. Glynn Manley

2012

March 4

Exhibition

by Susan L. Shirley

Harmony Hall

St. Mary, Jamaica

Opening Remarks made by

Aloun Assamba

Ja's High Commisioner

to England & British Isles

"Still Life w Star Fruit 1"

"Still Life w Lychee"

"Still Life 2 Star Fruit 2"

"Still Life w Sweet Sop"

"Still Life w Mango"

Glynn Manley, Susan Alexander, Susan, Peter

Aloun Assamba (opening speaker) with Susan

November 2010

Harmony Hall Annual Anniversary (invitational) Exhibition

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

December

2010

Biennial National

Invitational Exhibition

National Gallery

Kingston Jamaica

April 2010

Haiti Relief (group) Exhibition, Art Sale and Auction

National Gallery, Kingston JA

"Still Life with (Ma Lou) Yabba's"

"Still Life w Oranges & Lychees"

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Susan Shirley was born in 1950 in Detroit, Michigan. She entered Michigan State University in 1968 and graduated in 1972, receiving degrees in Interior Design and Fine Art. While at university, she met and later married Gregory Shirley, a Jamaican graduate student who was just completing his MBA. Mrs. Shirley began her professional career as a commercial designer in Detroit, where she and her husband made their home for several years.

In 1975, shortly after the birth of their first child, Susan and her family moved to Jamaica where she began teaching art at Alpha Academy in Kingston. There she had the opportunity to meet several artists who encouraged her to exhibit her work. She did so in 1979 with her first exhibition hosted by Eugene Hyde at his John Pear Tree Gallery in Kingston. Since then she has had many one person exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Jamaica as well as in Toronto, Antigua, Miami and New York. Mrs. Shirley works primarily in water-colour and pen & ink with subject matter concentrating on Jamaican architecture, landscape, seascape and still-life.

Susan and her husband presently reside on the North Coast of Jamaica. They have two grown children.

Read Aloun Assamba's Opening Remarks

"The Rio Nuevo Bay"

St. Mary JA

"Kara"

"Still Life with Vase"

"Still Life with Cat"

"View from Firefly"

St. Mary JA