Nari ward biography sample

The Jamaican-born, New York-based artist Nari Ward is known for his powerful sculptural installations created using humble discarded materials frequently found and collected throughout his neighbourhood of Harlem. Whether Ward is combining more than 300 baby buggies with flattened fire hoses (the 1993 installation Amazing Grace) or rolling a giant ball of tumbleweed made from the toecaps and laces of shoes onto slices of vinyl advertising hoardings (the 2015 sculpture Tumblehood), his assembled works confront complex social and political realities surrounding race, migration, democracy and community.

The late curator Okwui Enwezor, who included Ward in his 2002 Documenta 11 exhibition, said that the artist had “completely transformed the scale and the ambition of installation art”.

From an early showing in the Aperto section of the 1993 Venice Biennale, Ward has gone on to exhibit worldwide, fro Nari Ward - National Gallery of Jamaica LYTUM