Current Solo Exhibition: Maroon Mountains @ Gallery NAGA, Boston October 3 – November 2, 2024
“Unreal Habitat” @ Yuan Museum, Beijing, China August 3 – 23, 2024
Fragments of Time III @ Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica Feb 15 – April 20, 2024
Boston, Beijing and Jamaica
a solo exhibition by Bryan McFarlane
Opening Remarks: Mr. Richard Byles
Governor, Bank of Jamaica
Special Guest: Dr. Babacar M’Bow
Musée Civilisations Noires, Dakar, Senegal
A Curator’s Letter to the Artist by
Edmund Barry Gaither
Director of the Museum of the National Center of African Artists, Boston
Artist discussions/Public Engagement:
- Saturday, March 9, 2024, 11am-1pm
- Saturday, April 13, 2024, 11am-1pm remote guest: Dr. Martina Tanga, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas (installation) @ Museum of Fine Arts Boston May 26, 2022–July 31, 2023
Bryan McFarlane on, “Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas” 7/7, interview with the Boston Art Podcast Nov. 18, 2022
Interview with Michelle Millar Fisher (MFA Boston), inaugurates the artist interview feature of the Black Art and Artists MFA Boston Curators Circle #12, Oct 18, 2022
The Boston Globe (July 7, 2022): “‘Touching roots’ and connecting cultural histories at the MFA”
Resurgence (essay) @ AAMARP Feb 24, – Apr 21, 2023
AAMARP artists look to the future in ‘Resurgence’ – Celina Colby Bay State Banner reivew
Light on the Opposite Sides, 78x78", Oil on Linen, 2020, Bryan McFarlane
Transatlantic Art Discourse (e catalogue, artists talk video) @ ONE Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria July 1 – July 30, 2022
The Long View @ Bromfield Gallery Boston June 29 – July 31, 2022 (Opening Reception: Friday, July 1, 6-8 pm)
- The Boston Globe ART REVIEW by Cate McQuaid, July 13, 2022
Caught in Colorful Rain @ Gallery NAGA Boston March 5 – 27, 2021 – “Critics Choice”- in Boston Globe Feature on March 11, 2021
National Gallery of Jamaica Summer Exhibition 2019, July 28, 2019 (opening)
“Rethinking the Ocean” Session 6 (lectures by Maya Lin, Joan Jonas and Bryan McFarlane) of World Oceans Week @ The Explorers Club New York Jun 4, 2019
Solo Exhibition: New Beginnings @ Gene Pearson Gallery at R Hotel Kingston, Jamaica Mar 4 – Apr 13, 2019
Solo Exhibition: Circular Journey III @ Skoto Gallery New York Sep 6 – Oct 20, 2018
Featured host of 8th Annual Jamaican Arts Odyssey @ Great Huts Resort Portland, Jamaica Jun 22 – 24, 2018
Solo (2 person) Exhibition: LIKE THE WEATHER @ Gallery NAGA Boston May 31 – Jul 13, 2018
Solo Exhibition: Fragments of Time II @ Olympia Gallery Kingston, Jamaica Mar 15 – Apr 25, 2018
- McFarlane to open first solo exhibition here in 14 years Jamaica Observer Mar 05, 2018
- Jamaica-Born Academic Bridges Connection To China Through Art The Gleaner Sunday Jan 28, 2018
- Special one hour Interview – Professor Bryan McFarlane – Artist, Educator, Maroon by JIS STUDIO 58A of Jamaica Information Service Jan 16, 2018
- Interview by Smile Jamaica of Television Jamaica Jan 15, 2018
- Special one hour Interview by Mona FM with Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of West Indies: the Hon. Ambassador Richard L. Bernal Jan 14, 2018
Group Exhibition – 40TH ANNIVERSARY: ARTISTS M – V @ Gallery NAGA, Boston Feb 2018
Interview @ ART AFRICA 2017 Miami Arts Fair/Art Basel @ Historic Overtown Dec 5-10, 2017
Critic of “1946” by Wang Xiqi @ Tokyo Art Club and Panel Discussion @ Josai University Educational Corporation Tokyo, Japan Sep 28-30, 2017
Power of Public Art @ Xi’an Architecture and Technology University Jun, 2017
Contemporary Expressions with Art Historical Analogies @ Hunan Normal University May, 2017
Jamaica Biennial 2017 @ National Gallery of Jamaica Feb 26 – May 28, 2017
Creative Workshop @ Hunan Normal University Nov 21-27, 2016
Keynote speaker @ 2016 The Silk Road International Arts Festival Xi’an, China Sep 7-21, 2016
China-Latin America and Caribbean 2016 Year of Culture Exchange
- Tour World of Art @ China Art Museum Shanghai Nov 1 – Dec 7, 2016 (17 major pieces)
- Latin America and Caribbean Visual Art Exhibition @ Beijing World Art Museum May, 2016
- Artists in Residency @ Hunan Normal University May, 2016
“Stories in the Clouds” @ Gallery NAGA – Review by Boston Globe April, 2015
On the cover of the book “100 Boston Artists“
Synergy Project @ MIT (The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
- Seminar at Sea (on board Falkor with Chief Scientist of Schmidt Ocean Institute and development team of Nereus) Jun 17, 2013
- Ocean Stories @ Art & Science Gallery, Museum of Science Boston Feb 16 – Jun 9, 2013
- Immensity in Minuteness – documentary produced by Ari Daniel Shapiro
My Dragon’s Silk Road @ Gallery Naga – Review by WGBH Arts Sep, 2012
2012 Musgrave Medalist and National Biennial 2012 – Musgrave Tributes @ National Gallery of Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica
A Journey to Shanghai – Recent Work @ M50, 99 Art Center, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University Shanghai, China
Circular Journey II @ Sunshine International Museum, Beijing, China
Catalogue: Circular Journey II
Essays by:
Lowery Stokes Sims
Former Curator at MOMA, NYC
Dr. Edmund Barry Gaither
Director of the Museum of the National Center of African Artists, Boston
His Excellency Courtenay Ratteray
Jamaica’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
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