Image and Imagination:

The Photographs of Albert Chong

URI Main Gallery
February 8 – March 25, 2021
Hours: Mon-Thur, 12-4

Albert Chong is an international artist known for his photography. Chong’s early works in photography earned critical recognition for its contribution to the multiculturism movement in the visual arts which focused specifically on visual narratives related to race, identity, family, nationalism, mysticism and spirituality as expressed in art.

Chong was selected to be the representative artist of his home country Jamaica in numerous international exhibitions including the Havana Biennial in Cuba twice, the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil in 1998, the Johannesburg Biennial in 1994 and the Venice Biennial in 2001. He has received prestigious grants in support of his art from the National Endowment for the Art Fellowship in Photography, the Pollock-Krasner grant and the Guggenheim Fellowship in photography in 1998.

“My work has sought to give expression to my human visual intuition that operates at levels inhospitable to verbal or literary expression”.