Ambassador’s Choice
The Ambassador’s Choice (AC) was conceived by collector and publisher Michael Valentine. The AC is an ongoing series of partnerships between art institutions and Ambassadors to the United Nations to celebrate and support artists by producing thought provoking exhibitions supported by art related programming.
His Excellency Brian Wallace, Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United Nations, is the first to host an Ambassador’s Choice exhibition. He chose an intergenerational group of artists from the Valentine Museum of Art collection. Forty works by artists of Caribbean descent in the museum’s collection will be on view at the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations in New York, from September 23rd, 2024 - March 30th, 2025.
Ambassador’s Choice Exhibition
September 23rd, 2024 - March 30th, 2025
Artist Reception: Thursday, January 16th, 6:30-8 pm.
Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations
300 East 42nd Street (Third Floor), NY 10017, New York, United States of America.
Phone: 917-640-8738
Artists Selected
Hugh Bell (b.1927 -2012) St. Lucia
Carlton B. Ingleton (b.1941- 2007) Jamaica
Clifford Hobbs (b. 1943) Barbados
Dudley Vaccianna (b. 1945)Jamaica
Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) Guyana
Victor Bloise (b. 1953) Jamaica
Basil Watson (b. 1958) Jamaica
Isah Shabaka (b. 1958) Jamaica
Robergeau Duverger (b. 1962) Haiti
Cheery Stewart Josephs (b. 1961) Jamaican
Donovan Nelson (b. 1969) Jamaican
Chris Cook (b.1992) Jamaican/American
Iyeeka Walters (b. 1995) Jamaican
King David (b. 1995) Jamaican/Trinidadian/American