Artists Statement
Education
Oneika attended the Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica. from 1999 to 2003 where she completed a diploma in the Painting Department. In 2003 she left for studies at Goldsmiths College in London in the Centre for Cultural Studies. While at Goldsmiths, Oneika began to integrate her deep interest in combining the practice of Painting with New Media. Characters and stories are the basis of her work. Many of the stories are imaginings, re-inventions and re-readings inspired by experience and locations as well as romanticized memories from literature, cartoons, picture books and fairy tales, magazines and other media. She is currently doing research at Kyoto Seika University, Japan on Animation in Contemporary Art. Her current work plays with sound, drawing and animation to convey experience and sense of place.
Education
2010- present
Kyoto Seika University,, Japan
Film, Video and Media Arts Dept.
Monbukagakusho Scholar, Doctoral Research
2009- 2010
Kyoto Seika University,, Japan
Film, Video and Media Arts Dept.,
Monbukagakusho Scholar, Postgraduate Research
Monbukagakusho Scholar, Postgraduate Research
2003- 2004 Goldsmiths College, University College of London, UK
Centre for Cultural Studies,
M.A., Interactive Media
1999-2003 Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts., Jamaica
4 yr. Dip., Painting, Upper 2nd Class Honours, Delves Molesworth studio space
Award, Dean's Purchase Award, 2003
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2012 (upcoming) March, Two-woman show, Munson-Williams-Proctor Gallery, Pratt MWP, New York, USA
2011 January, Wrestling with the Image, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., USA
2010 November, ARTSBAR@Rissei, Rissei Elementary School, Kyoto, Japan
2010 March, ART FRESH, Group show, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 November, Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, Group show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA
2009 February, Mi Did Deh Deh, Two-man show, Morlan Art Gallery, University of
Transylvania, Lexington, USA
2008 July, In the Night Garden, Solo show, Commonwealth Arts & Crafts Award Residency, Post-Museum, Little India, Singapore
2008 June, Taboo Identities: Race, Sexuality + the Body- A Jamaican Context,
Olympia Art Centre, Kingston, Jamaica / Kentucky State University, Kentucky, USA
2008 March, Curator’s Eye III: Ceremony in Space and Time, National Gallery of
Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 May, Her Shorts Women’s International Video Festival, Historic Y, Tucson,
Arizona, USA.
2007 February, Moving Pictures: The Art & Design on Film Series, Manifest
Gallery,Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
2006 November, NEXT: Power, Myths & Tragedies,CAGE Gallery, Edna Manley College, Kingston
