BIOGRAPHY

Cadman Matthias is one of the most celebrated Antiguan born artist. His use of preferred mediums are watercolors and oils. He stylized his work by focusing on movement and body language. A number of his works hang in hotels, museums, and art galleries around the Caribbean, Central America and Florida. Florida  has become very popular for modern art and their interpretations from collectors locally and internationally.   Cadman was chosen to represent Antigua for its annual Caribbean Art Calendar in 1986. He staged his first one-man show in 1987 at the Islands Arts, Aiton Place Gallery. In 1988 he did his second one-man show exibition at the same gallery. That show gained him recognition he needed to enter into the Island Arts Quest Carribean Art Comeptition in 1989, which he won 3rd runner up and the winner of the Supreme Award for Excellence, Best Human Study and Best Carnival Study (Antigua). ​ In the 90,s Cadman's career soared to new heights, his works were exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada in 1991 and in 1992 he presented his first exhibition at the Bienal of Painters of the Caribbean and Central America held at the Museum of Modern Arts in the Dominican Republic. As a result of the success and notararity he received after Bienal, he was invited to exhibit at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C. in 1993. The same year he was one of the artist selected to represent Antigua at UNESCO's Caribbean Art Exhibition in Caracao, which started a three year world tour in 1994. Later in 1994, he was included in his 2nd Bienal of Painters of the Caribbean and Central America that lead to his work being featured in Island Magazine. ​ ​