Dominique Hunter


B. 1987 - Guyana

Dominique Hunter received her Diploma from the E.R. Burrowes School of Art in 2007 where she was awarded Best Graduating Student. Three years later her first solo exhibition, Introspection, was held at the National Gallery of Art, 
Castellani House. In addition to securing silver and bronze medals in Castellani House’s 7th and 8th Biennial National Drawing Competition (2008 and 2010 respectively), she secured a  silver medal at the Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition in 2014, and a gold medal in 2019.

Hunter completed her BFA at the Barbados Community College in 2015, receiving the Leslie's Legacy Foundation Award for Most Outstanding Work. She has since exhibited work in St. Vincent, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and  Miami, and has participated in residencies including Caribbean Linked IV (Aruba) and  the Vermont Studio Center (USA), after being awarded the Reed Foundation Fellowship. 

She has work in several prestigious collections around the world, including Guyana’s 
National Collection and the National Collection of the Barbados National Art Gallery.  Hunter has had her writings published in the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Issue 11, and in “Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora,” through Open Book Publishers.