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About the Artist
Charles Long

b. 1948

Born in West Africa, Charles Long grew up in Swaziland and England, where he attended Farnham School of Art. He settled in the Cayman Islands in the late 1960s and became a founding member and first secretary of the Visual Art Society. Long has been dubbed a “chronicler of our times”, a phrase that became the title of a 2002 retrospective of his work at NGCI. Other key exhibitions include the Santo Domingo Biennale (2003) and Carifesta X in Guyana (2008). Long’s highly collectable work forms part of the permanent collections of NGCI and the Cayman Islands National Museum. NGCI exhibitions include the solo show Charles Long – Chronicler of Our Time (2002), Portrait of an Artist (2003), All Access (2015), Mediating Self (2017), Tropical Visions (2019), and Island of Women: Life at Home During our Maritime Years (2020).

Featured Works

Clothing Line

Charles Long
1979

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Untitled (Ting)

Charles Long
1980

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Catboat in Shelter

Charles Long
1987

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Catboat Shelter

Charles Long
1989

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Charles Long - Pedro's Bluff, 1999

Pedro’s Bluff

Charles Long
1999

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Breadfruit Walk

Charles Long
2008

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Related Exhibitions

20-21 Feb Aug 2020

Island of Women

Life at Home During Our Maritime Years
15-3 Jun Oct 2019

Tropical Visions

Landscape Painting from the National Collection
30-23 Jun Sep 2017

Mediating Self

Identity and the Body
13-3 Jul Sep 2015

All Access

A journey through the National Collection

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