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= Jemima Wyman = Jemima Wyman (Born 1997, New South Wales, Sydney) is a Contemporary artist and educator living in Los Angeles. She is known for her use of various mediums in her artworks, which she uses to display awareness on protest culture and zones of conflict. Such mediums include video, performance, installation, photography, and painting. Her unique way of representing resistance strategies that are commonly found in conflicts today has allowed for her artwork to gain popularity and be shown nation wide.

Life & Education
Jemima Wyman was born in 1997 in New South Wales but grew up in small towns on the north east coast of Australia such as Dysart, Moranbah, Tolga, and Mackay. She is also a mother to a young son. Her partner is James Naish, who is an iron worker and furniture designer.

After high school, Wyman continued her undergraduate studies at Queensland University of Technology where she completed her bachelors degree in fine arts with honors. Then in 2007, Wyman graduated with a masters of Fine Arts at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles. Establishing her career was not an easy task for Wyman, she had to work hard in order to get a studio residency in Santa Monica awarded to her by the government of Australia which allows artist to work abroad for three months. She then won a scholarship known as the Anne and Gordon Samstag scholarship that allowed her to do graduate study any where in the world for free. After that she aquired a green card from the lottery to live and work in the U.S.

Work
Jemima Wyman works and live in Los Angeles. She is a lecturer in the art department of California State University of Los Angeles.



Exhibitions

 * 1) World Cloud
 * 2) Air
 * 3) A haze Decends