Education

• MA Fine Art, Distinction - York St John University, UK 2014

•Thesis: DISPLACE & DISTASTE – The Taste for the Other: Tavares Strachan's 'Displaced' Bahamian Pavillion at Venice Biennale 2013

• Fine Art BA (Hons), First Class Honours - York St John University, UK 2013

•Dissertation: “Curator as Ethnographer or Tourist? – Issues of Representing Identity in Caribbean Peoples as a Post-Colonial Other in Western Biennial Culture” 2012

Experience

• Editor-at-Large - The Caribbean, Burnaway, ATL, USA. February 2024-Present

• CCCADI Crossroads Advisory Board Member - Center for Caribbean Culture and African Diaspora Institute, NY, USA. September 2023-2025.

• Copywriter + editor - (part time)- The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) - August 2022 - July 2023.

• Associate Curator, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) 

  • Nassau, The Bahamas. Working in a curatorial capacity from March 2015 to October 2021.

  • NAGB Social Media Officer for Instagram - developing a voice for the Museum on the platform from 2016-2019. 

• CCCADI Curatorial Fellowship 2021 - Center for Caribbean Culture and African Diaspora Institute, NY, USA.

• Tilting Axis Curatorial Fellowship 2018/19 - Art Galleries for Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Editorial Intern, ARC Magazine - Remotely based across Caribbean + diaspora, 2014.

Selected Talks + Conversations

• Invited Speaker, Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism, March 2022

• Invited Speaker, UNIT London “In Conversation” series with Cydne Jasmin Coleby, April 2021

• Guest Lecturer, “The Role of the Curator” at Arts & Humanities, University of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, November 2020

• Invited Speaker for CCCADI “Curators in Conversation” Series - September 2020

  •  Virtual Talk, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), September 2020

• Invited Speaker, Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference 2017- Nassau, The Bahamas.

• Invited Speaker, Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) 2016 Annual Conference -  Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Exhibitions

“ancestral: remains to be seen” (2021), the Double Dutch series of exhibitions, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Floating Rib” (2021) The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Cydne Coleby “Queen Mudda” (2021) UNIT, London, UK

“Medicine & Memory: Public Health in The Bahamas I” (2020-21) Virtual Permanent Exhibition, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Medicine & Memory: Public Health in The Bahamas II” (2020-21) On-Site Permanent Exhibition, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“From Time: Water Has A Perfect Memory” (2020-21) Inter-Island  Travelling Exhibition for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (shown in Eleuthera, Virtual Offering for Abaco)

“Lingua Franca: Black Spirit Speaks in Common Tongues” (2019) Art Galleries for Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

“Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”(2018-19)  The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Revisiting An Eye for the Tropics” (2016-17) The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Max/Amos: A Tale of Two Paradises” (2015-16) Inaugural Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (shown in Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, Abaco)

Awards & Achievements

CCCADI Curatorial Fellow 2021
Center for Caribbean Culture and African Diaspora Institute, Harlem, NY (2021-22)

Tilting Axis Curatorial Fellow 2018
AGBS University of Texas at Austin, and Memorial Acte, Guadeloupe  (2018)

Press & Publications

Review of Rodell Warner’s “https://burnaway.org/magazine/fictions-more-precious-by-rodell-warner-at-big-medium-austin/

NAGB National Collection Catalogue - Co-Editor - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, (2023). Release date TBC.

Founding writer and researcher for the archive of accessible scholarship on the National Collection of The Bahamas - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, (2016 — 2019)

Weekly editorial in the Arts + Culture Section of the Nassau Guardian (2016 — 2019) - 40+ articles per annum

“Tessa Whitehead: ... there are always two deaths” Exhibition Catalogue - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, 2019.

“Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”  Terremoto (2018)

“Medium: Practices and Routes of Spirituality and Mysticism” Exhibition Catalogue - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (2018)