I use the image of my painting the "Diver" as a primary armature. It’s a reference to the boys I saw jumping into Kingston harbor, but it’s also a reimagining of the Icarus myth. — Andrae Green
Andrae Green is a Jamaican figurative painter from Kingston who works in oil, acrylic, and mixed media. He received a full scholarship from the Chase Fund Jamaica in 2000 and earned a BFA from Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art.
Green has represented Jamaica at the Beijing Biennale on five occasions and served as the 2019 Experience Jamaique Artist-in-Residence in Geneva, Switzerland. His work has been exhibited internationally at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Maddox Gallery in Los Angeles, Southampton Arts Center in New York, Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles, and other institutions in the United States and Jamaica.
His first museum solo exhibition, Palindrome: Back to Hope, was presented at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where his painting Chasing Paradise entered the museum’s permanent collection. In 2025, he received second place in the Danforth Museum Annual Juried Exhibition and joined the faculty at Hartford Art School.
