Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist based in NYC who draws from nostalgia for her homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality, environmentalism, and colonial narratives in works ranging from drawing, installation, and performance. She holds a BFA with honors from the University of Florida and an MFA from Hunter College.  

Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has been exhibited in the Queens Museum, Who Takes Care of New York? Queens, NY  (2019); The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Experience, Guilty Party, Seattle, WA (2020) as well as The James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center, Textures of Feminist Perseverance, New York, NY (2024). Solo exhibitions include Picnic Parade at the Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA (2022) and Junkanooacome at Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Lyn-Kee-Chow co-authored Living Histories of Sugar in the Caribbean and Scotland: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and presented in Kingston, JA, and Greenock and Edinburgh in Scotland (2022). She is the recipient of awards including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2012), Rema Hort Mann Artist in Community Engagement (2017), Franklin Furnace Fund (2017-18), Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice (2018), and Queens Art Fund (2019, 2024). Lyn-Kee-Chow has also received the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (2024), KODA Residency on Governors Island, NY (2023), Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY (2023), Wave Hill Winter Workspace (2022) and is an inaugural artist fellow of Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Recent recognition includes being shortlisted for Creative Capital (2022) and nominated for Anonymous Was a Woman (2024). Publications include The New York Times, Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, and Artsy. Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work is in private and public collections including the Museum of Chinese in America, Wing Luke Museum, and the National Gallery of Jamaica.