Paul Dash

Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados) lives and works in London. He emigrated to Oxford in 1957 with his family at the age of eleven. After a foundation course at Oxford Polytechnic, now Oxford Brookes University, he completed a BA at Chelsea School of Art in 1968 and an MA at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he received a distinction in 1990. In 2009 Dash was awarded a PhD from Goldsmiths University of London, writing a dissertation on African Caribbean pupils in Art Education. Dash was an active member of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) from 1969-1972 and exhibited with the group at various venues in London and Kent. He participated in the ‘Whitechapel Open’ in 1985 and ‘Caribbean Connection 2: Island Pulse’, at Islington Arts Factory in 1996. Other exhibitions include the ‘Summer Exhibition’ at The Royal Academy (1998 and 2020), ‘No Colour Bar’ at Guildhall Art Gallery, London (2015-16), the Arrivants exhibition at Barbados Museum in honour of Kamau Brathwaite (2018), his first major solo show at 198 Gallery Brixton (2019) and Threadneedle Street Prize at Mall Galleries (2020). Dash was also a participating artist in ‘Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now’ at Tate Britain (2019-2022).