About the Artist
Aston Ebanks
b. 1974
A self-taught conceptual artist, Jamaica-born Aston Ebanks now resides permanently in Grand Cayman, after stints in Switzerland and Western Samoa. He was awarded The McCoy Prize (2005) and has since become well known for using recycled materials in remarkable site installations such as The Maze (constructed out of three thousand shipping pallets in 2007) for the National Gallery and the on-going permanent project The Faley. Ebanks’ work is included in the permanent collections of NGCI and the Cayman Islands National Museum. Exhibitions at NGCI include Arreckly: Towards a Cultural Identity (2007), 21st Century Cayman (2010), The Persistence of Memory (2011), Art of Assemblage (2013), All Access (2015), and tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015).
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