Rejin Leys is a mixed media artist and paper maker based in New York, whose work has been exhibited at such venues as Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, DR; Kentler International Drawing Space, NY; Queens Museum, NY; and Les Ateliers J.R. Jerome, PaP, Haiti. Her work is in the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Yale University, and Rutgers University Caribbean Studies Department, and she is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

By casting such things as our oldest tree, public art, and architectural details, Touch Jamaica creates a tactile timeline that explores local history through infrastructure to tell the story of the neighborhood.

Artist’s Statement:

“I have a dual art practice: within the studio, my mixed media drawings and (more recently) cast paper sculptures suggest a narrative of displacement: due to climate change, political instability, the long tail of colonialism.”