About
Autin Dean Wright was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. A graduate of the Edna Manley School of Visual Art in Kingston, he was honored with a Certificate of Merit as well as a gold, a silver, and two bronze medals at Jamaica’s Annual Festival of Fine Arts Exhibition. His work was included in the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Jamaica and he was the recipient of the Simon Bolivar Sculpture Competition Award hosted by the Venezuela Embassy in Jamaica.
Wright moved to the United States in 1987. After graduating from the Connecticut Institute of Art in Greenwich, he became the Technical Supervisor for Paint and Patina at the Johnson Atelier Institute of Sculpture in Mercerville, NJ. Wright currently resides in Trenton, NJ.
Awards
A graduate of the Edna Manley School of Visual Art in Kingston on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, he was honored with a Certificate of Merit as well as a gold, a silver, and two bronze medals at Jamaica’s Annual Festival of Fine Arts Exhibition. His work was included in the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Jamaica and he was the recipient of the Simon Bolivar Sculpture Competition Award hosted by the Venuzeula Embassy in Jamaica. Wright moved to the United States in 1987.
| 2010 | Exhibit: Art all Night |
| Roebling Wire Factory, Trenton, NJ | |
| 2007 | Commission: Carmelita (Cast Fiberglass) |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 2005 | Solo Exhibit: Toad Gallery |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 2004 | Commission: Regina (Cast Fiberglass) |
| Rat’s Restaurant, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 2003 | Fall/Winter Exhibit |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 2002 | Fifteen Jamaican Artists |
| Skoto Gallery, NY, NY | |
| 2002 | A La Atelier: Greensboro Artists’ League |
| League Gallery, Greensboro, NC | |
| 2001 | Ellarslie Open XX |
| Ellarslie Museum, Trenton, NJ | |
| 2001 | Solo Exhibit |
| Johnson Atelier Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ | |
| 2001 | Group Exhibit |
| Skoto Gallery, NY, NY | |
| 2000 | Stone Sculpture Group Exhibit |
| Ellarslie Museum, Trenton, NJ | |
| 1998 | Commission: Free Form III (White Danby Marble) |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 1997 | Herk Van Tongeren Memorial Sculpture Fund Award |
| 1997 | Commission: Kordell (White Danby Marble) |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 1996 | Commission: The Sleep (Cast Aluminum) |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ | |
| 1995 | Solo Exhibition |
| Extension Gallery, Mercerville, NJ | |
| 1994 | Herk Von Tongren Memorial Sculpture Fund Award |
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