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BIOGRAPHY 

Photograph by Adeline Gregoire 

Shannon Alonzo (b.1988, St.Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago) is an interdisciplinary artist focusing primarily on drawing, sculpture and performance. Her practice explores themes of collective belonging, place attachment and the significance of carnival ritual to the Caribbean consciousness. She holds a BA from London College of Fashion and MRes Creative Practice from the University of Westminster.

 

Alonzo has been working in the creative industries since 2011, within a variety of roles including visual art, costume design and production design. Her project collaborations with design house Meiling Inc Ltd have included work with Peter Minshall and the Callaloo Company, Costume Design for 3Canal’s annual carnival productions, and Wardrobe Design for the feature documentary ‘Pan! A Modern Odyssey’. 

In 2013, Alonzo turned her focus to film taking on production design roles in projects such as ‘Play the Devil’, the award winning feature film which opened the LA Film Festival in 2016.

Other production design credits include the feature film ‘Moving Parts’ and short film ‘Salty Dog’, as well as television commercials for FLOW, Angostura and Bmobile, amongst others. 

Since 2019 she has focused predominantly on her fine art practice. In 2023 she was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Caribbean Cultural Institute of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and has exhibited work at the Liverpool Biennial 2023, Ambika P3 and London Gallery West in the U.K, Documenta Fifteen in Germany, Alice Yard, Loftt Gallery and Black Box in Trinidad & Tobago and the Atlantic World Art Fair on Artsy.

Education 

2019 - 2021

Mres Creative Practice

University of Westminster, U.K. 

2008 - 2012

BA Hons Fashion Design & Marketing

London College of Fashion, UAL

Upcoming Projects 

2024

Prospect 6, New Orleans, USA

Awards & Residencies 

2023

Artist Fellowship, Caribbean Cultural Institute, Pérez Art Museum Miami 

2022

Artist Residency, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Germany 

2020

Artist Residency, Alice Yard Project Space 

2020

Shortlist Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 

2020

CATAPULT Caribbean Artist Showcase Grant 

2020

125 Fund Research Grant 

Exhibitions 

Group 

2023

2022

2022

2022

2020

2020

2019

Liverpool Biennial, uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool, U.K 

Alice Yard Collective, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Germany 

Atlantic World Art Fair, Artsy, Y Gallery Booth   

Cloud Sediments, Ambika P3, London, U.K. 

States of Confinement, POS, Trinidad  

Ashurst Emerging Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, London, U.K.  

Physical Thinking, University of Westminster, London, U.K.  

Solo

2019

2015

Imprint, Loftt Gallery, POS, Trinidad 

Of smoke and sunshine, Black Box, POS, Trinidad 

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