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About Ricardo Nanton

Ricardo Nanton Artist Painter

Ricardo Nanton

Born in Port Of Spain, Trinidad, 1953

The Art Students League New York, NY
Parsons, The New School, New York, NY
Tutored by M.P. Alladin; Wayne Berkley, Trinidad
St Mary's College, Trinidad






SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 "Encircle", In 2 Art Gallery, Trinidad

2000 Horizons Framing and Décor, Trinidad

1998 Caribbean Expo, Trinidad

1997 Paintings & Hand-Painted Furniture, Bo's Gallery, Trinidad

1991 Paintings and Pottery, Cotton House, Mustique

1987 Art Creators, Trinidad

1985 Taller Latino Americano, New York City

1984 Art Creators, Trinidad


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999 "Taste of Tropical Paradise", sponsored by Angostura and hosted by the Amercian Women's Club of Trinidad & Tobago

1989 "Wearable Art" – Hand-Painted Jewelry, Eaton Center, Toronto

1987 Invited by The Shirogane Gakuen Semon Cakko (School of Fashion and Design) to organize and co-direct a Fashion show for the Graduate Student's Designs, Hirosaki, Japan


CARNIVAL

2007 Painted Masks for Nanton/Berkeley Exhibit, Horizons Framing and Décor, Trinidad

1999 "The Masks" for Millennium Ball with Wayne Berkeley,Barbados

1998 "THE MASK BALL" an exhibition of Carnival Masks with Wayne Berkeley, Trinidad

1998 Miss Universe, set design collabotation with Wayne Berkeley, Trinidad

1998 First Prize for Best Carnival Float, St. Maarten

1992 Designer of 'Bacchanal', a Carnival Band for Edmund Hart, Trinidad

1984 Limited Edition of Hand Painted Decorative Masks, Kacals, Trinidad Hilton Hotel


FINISHES

2012 Kings County Courthouse ceilings (entrance hall), Brooklyn, NY

1998 Floors and Murals for Royal Bank Expo, Trinidad

1998 Murals for exhibitors representing all the Caribbean, Expo 1998

1998 Façade for ILCARMELLION Beauty Salon, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY

1997 Art on Floors – Mount Plisir Estate, Trinidad

1993 Faux Finishes for Basils 2, St. Vincent

1991 Art on Floors – Buttercup House, Mustique