Denzil Forrester

Denzil Forrester
Born	1956 (age 60–61) Grenada, Caribbean
Education	Central School of Art; Royal College of Art

Denzil Forrester (born 1956) is a Grenada-born artist who moved to England as a child in 1967. Based in London, he is a lecturer at Morley College.

Born in 1956 in Grenada in the Caribbean, Denzil Forrester moved to England when he was aged 10. He attended the Central School of Art, earning a BA degree, and was one of only a few Black artists to gain an MA in Fine Art (Painting) at the Royal College of Art in the early 1980s. Since then, his work has been widely shown in many exhibitions. In 1983, he won the Rome Scholarship, and subsequently received a Harkness Scholarship that enabled him to spend 18 months in New York City.

He has also been the recipient of two major awards at the Royal Academy Summer Show, including in 1987, the Korn/Ferry International Award. His paintings are in the collections of Freshfields, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, and the Walker Collection, Atlanta.

Notable exhibitions in which Forrester has participated include From Two Worlds, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1986, and Dub Transition: A Decade of Paintings 1980–1990 (1990). In 1995, he organised and curated The Caribbean Connection, exhibitions and cultural exchanges around the work of Caribbean artists. The exhibition held from 15 September to 13 October 1995 at the Islington Arts Factory (where Forrester's studio was located) featured Ronald Moody (from Jamaica), Aubrey Williams (Guyana), Frank Bowling (Guyana), John Lyons (Trinidad) and Bill Ming (Bermuda), with the catalogue providing a "Historical Background Sketch" by John La Rose and Errol Lloyd.

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