Artist’s Studio
5A Mountain View
Maracas Valley, St. Joseph, Trinidad, West Indies
Tel: (868) 495-9324/223-5660
Email: [email protected]
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ARTIST’S PROFILE
Rex Dixon was born in 1939 in London, England and was evacuated in 1940 during the war from London to Letchworth, Hertfordshire. He completed his secondary education and proceeded to a series of peripatetic jobs from 1957 and 1966 which included being a clerk at the Provident Mutual Life Association, a coal weigher, a labourer, waiter and hotel worker in Spain. He entered the School of Art, Newton Abbot in South Devon from 1966 to 1968. He followed up his training at Newton Abbey with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1971 at Stourbridge College of Art, West Midlands, UK and completed a School of Art Education Teaching Diploma at Birmingham Polytechnic in 1972.
He was Visual Arts Officer at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham from 1972-1977, organizing exhibitions, lectures, films and seminars on all aspects of contemporary art. He taught painting as a full time lecturer on the B.A. degree course at the New University of Ulster, Belfast, prior to teaching in the painting department at the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts, Jamaica from 1985 to 1999. He gave up his education position after teaching full time for twelve years in Jamaica, to devote himself to painting in 1999 and since them has followed no other profession that than of artist and painter.
He has held numerous one-person exhibitions in Kingston and abroad and his paintings are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Caribbean Development Bank, The University of the West Indies. Jamaica and in numerous other private collections. He is currently represented by the James Wray Gallery in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Softbox Gallery in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
His work is featured in several films among them Seventeen Colours and a Sitar that features the parallels between the work of Dixon and Trinidadian musician Mungal Patasar.
He is co-author with Patricia Mohammed and contributor of drawings to the book Travels with a Husband, Hansib, United Kingdom, 2016 and has also published Jane Eyre: Caribbean Drawings, Hansib, United Kingdom and Maracas Valley Studio Productions, 2019 (Both books available as E copies on Amazon)

REX DIXON
Solo exhibitions

1973 Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England
1974 Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England
1976 Dudley Art Gallery, England
1977 Stafford Art Gallery, England
1980 Ibis Gallery, Leamington Spa, England
1980 Holt Street Gallery, Birmingham, England
1983 Art and Design Centre, Ulster Polytechnic, Belfast N. Ireland
1984 Art and Design Centre, Ulster Polytechnic, Belfast N. Ireland
1985 Octagon Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
1986 Bilston Art Gallery, England
1988 Central Space Gallery, London, England
1989 Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1991 Frame Centre Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1993 Galerie 14, Kingston, Jamaica
1994 & 1996 Grosvenor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1997 Via Galerie, The Hague, The Netherlands
1998 & 2000 Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2001 Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago
2002 Gallery 1234 , Hotel Normandie, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2003 National Museum and Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago “Wide Sargasso Sea”
2006 The Gallery at Fine Art, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2007 Amrose Sable Gallery, Albany, NY “Where to find me”
2008 Softbox Studios Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2009 Coolie Pink and Green in Collaboration with Soft Box Gallery presents “Works in Progress” an exhibition in celebration of the artist at Studio, 5 A Mountain View, Maracas Valley, St Joseph
2010 “Seventeen Colours” Softbox Studios Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
2012 James Wray and Co, Belfast, Northern Ireland “Caribbean Edge”
2014 James Wray and Co, Belfast, Northern Ireland “The Death of Painting”
2014 Softbox Studios and Gallery, Port of Spain, “The Death of Painting
2016 Softbox Studios and Gallery exhibition titled Travels with a Husband with Launch of Book Travels with a Husband
2017 James Wray and Co, Belfast, Northern Ireland Exhibition and launch of book “Travels with a husband” . http://jameswray.ie/exhibition/rex-dixon-patricia-mohammed-paintings-an…

2019 Softbox Gallery and Studio, 9 Alcazar St. St Clair, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: “Rex at Eighty: A New Era Exhibition” - June http://caribjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/exhibition-rex-at-eighty-by-re…

2019 James Wray and Co, Belfast, Northern Ireland: “Jane Eyre Caribbean Drawings” Exhibition and Book Launch – August
http://jameswray.ie/exhibition/jane-eyre-caribbean-drawings-by-rex-dixo…

2021 SoftBox Gallery and Studios "Talking Pictures". November

Major group exhibitions

1967 Torre Abbey, Torquay (Group Exhibition)
1971 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (Three-Man Exhibition)
1975 Curwen Gallery, London, England (Group Exhibition)
1977 “Midlands Art Now”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham England (Group Exhibition)
1977 “Mid Art 77", Dudley Art Gallery (Group Exhibition)
1981 “Mid-Art 81", Dudley Art Gallery (Group Exhibition)
1981 “Ikon Gallery Touring Show” - Various Venues in Midlands
1982 “Sade 82", Cork, Ireland, (Group Exhibition)
1984 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland (Four-Man Exhibition)
1990 Bay Gallery, Montego Bay, Jamaica (Three Man Exhibition)
1991 Galerie Malraux, Los Angeles, U.S.A. (Group Exhibition)
1992 Marpad Art Gallery, Miami, U.S.A. (Group Exhibition)
1994 “Home & Away - Seven Jamaican Artists” October Gallery, London, England
1994 Second Biennial of Caribbean & Central American Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997 Third Biennial of Caribbean & Central American Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997 “Black as Colour” National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1985 - 2001 “Annual National Art Exhibition” National Gallery of Jamaica
2003 Grove Gallery, Down Patrick, Northern Ireland
2003 “Caribbean Realities II” Museum of the Americas, Charleston, South Carolina
2005 “Homage to Bob Marley” National Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2006 “The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity: An Exhibition of Photo-based works by Caribbean artists and photographers” - co-curated with Patricia Mohammed, National Library, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo.
2006 “A Suitable Distance: Impressions of Trinidad by five artists” - Rex Dixon, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Kofi Kayiga and Roberta Stoddart:, at Soft Box Studios, Trinidad, Curated by Andy Jacobs
2002 - 2012 “The Jamaica National Biennial” National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2008- 2013 Annual Summer Exhibition, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
2014 Invited artist Biennale Exhibition” National Gallery of Jamaica
2016 Invited artist Biennale Exhibition” National Gallery of Jamaica
2017 “After Ink” An exhibition of recent ink drawings by Rex Dixon, Shalini Seereeram and Al Alexander, Soft Box Gallery, Port of Spain, December
2019 National Gallery of Jamaica, “Summer Exhibition” September
https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/ngj-summer-ex…
Feb 2021 Group Show at Smile Inn, Mucurapo, Port of Spain, 'Toute Bagai: A Carnival Exhibition