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Born in 1911, Mallica Reynolds, known as Kapo, began painting in 1947 and quickly moved to wood carving and sculpture. Kapo, a revivalist leader, got much of his inspiration from the movement which combines African and Christian beliefs. His sculpture embodied the movement, the sentiment and fervor of the movement. He moved back to painting in the 1960’s as his skill for sculpture declined. Kapo is one of the top Intuitive artists to arise in Jamaica at the time and he has been recognized with several honors as well as an Order of Distinction.
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1911-1989
Born St. Catherine, Jamaica
Died Kingston, Jamaica
EDUCATION
Self-taught
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1983
Kapo. Retrospective Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1980
Solo Exhibition. Giammiaca Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1975
Solo Exhibition. Stony Hill Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica
Solo Exhibition. Just-Above-Midtown Gallery, New York.
1970
Kapo. Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1968
Kapo. Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library, Kingston, Jamaica.
Solo Exhibition. Hills Galleries, Kingston, Jamaica.
1962
Kapo. Hills Galleries, Kingston, Jamaica.
1959
Solo Exhibition. Juster Galleries, New York.
SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2016
Outsiders. Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida.
2012
Outside the Box. Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida.
2007
Materializing Slavery: Artifact, Memory and Identity. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
2000
Some images of Christ in the National Gallery's Collection. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1993
Carib Art. Contemporary Art of the Caribbean. UNESCO, Curacao.
1989
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1988
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1987
Fifteen Intuitives. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1986
Jamaican Intuitives. Commonwealth Institute and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1983
Jamaican Art 1922-1982. Smithsonian Institution, Travelling Exhibition Service.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1982
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1981
Some Mother and Child Images in Jamaican Art. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1980
New Acquisitions. Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington D.C.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1979
The Intuitive Eye. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1978
Four Jamaican Primitives. Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington D.C.
First International Exhibition of Naïve Art. Hamilton’s, London, United Kingdom.
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1977
Annual National Exhibition. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1975
Ten Jamaican Sculptors. London.
1968
Artists of the Western Hemisphere: Art of Haiti and Jamaica. Center for Inter American Relations, New York.
SELECTED AWARDS
1985
Gold Musgrave Medal. Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
Norman Manley Award for Excellence in the Field of Arts.
1977
Order of Distinction, Jamaican National Honor.
1969
Silver Musgrave Medal. Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1966
Gold Award presented by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Jamaica
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland