Bernadette Persaud

Bernadette Indira Persaud (born 1946) is a Guyanese painter. She is a graduate of the University of Guyana and of the Burrows School of Art in Georgetown.^[1] Her style is expressionistic, and bears some resemblance to the work of Isaiah James Boodhoo, Wendy Nanan, and Kenwyn Crichlow of Trinidad and Tobago. Persaud has also written about art for numerous Guyanese publications.

In 1985 she won the Guyana National Visual Arts Competition. In 2012 she was inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence.^[2]

in 2014 the National Gallery of Art in Guyana held a retrospective of her work.^[3]

References

1. . CLICO Art Gallery. 10 October 2008. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
2. "She Rocks! Meet Bernadette Persaud - Artist/Writer, 2012 Caribbean Hall of Fame Inductee". Guyanese Girls Rock!. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
3. "Bernadette Persaud". Cultural Encounters. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

• containing a curatorial statement by Persaud
• Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art. London; Thames and Hudson; 1998.