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

Artist Remarks:

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

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Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas (installation) @ Museum of Fine Arts Boston May 26, 2022–July 31, 2023

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


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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)


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 OceanSession 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 IIISkoto 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


Group Exhibition – 40TH ANNIVERSARY: ARTISTS M – V @ Gallery NAGA, Boston  Feb 2018

InterviewART 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

“Stories in the Clouds” @ Gallery NAGAReview 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 Minutenessdocumentary produced by Ari Daniel Shapiro

My Dragon’s Silk Road @ Gallery NagaReview 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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