[4] In her research, multimedia, and photographic projects, which explore the visual representation of the Caribbean,[5] she combines "factual and fictional re-imaginings of contemporary experiences with history and memory ...[and] her recent work as a digital image artist includes photographs and screen-based interactive art installations that fictionalize Caribbean archive material, objects, and spaces.
"[4]She attended St. Rose's High School in Georgetown, Guyana, and returned to the UK for her university education in 1977 (her family relocated to Saint Lucia shortly afterwards).
[4]She also counts among her influences colleagues such as John Akomfrah, Sunil Gupta, Ingrid Pollard and Keith Piper, in addition to those involved with publishing the international independent photographic magazine Ten.8, among them Derek Bishton, Rhonda Wilson (with whom she co-edited the Spectrum Women's Photography Festival exhibition catalogue, published as a special supplement to issue 30 of the magazine)[8] and John Taylor.
[4] She has exhibited regularly internationally, including in Trinidad, Toronto (curated by Sheila Petty, University of Regina), New York and the Netherlands.
A major retrospective of her photographic and digital art, Roshini Kempadoo: Works 1990 – 2004, opened at the PM Gallery and House in 2004 and subsequently toured.