In his first solo exhibition with TERN, Caymanian artist John Reno Jackson presents Disappearing Sun — a mixed media display of new abstract paintings, drawings, and poetry. Following the cyclical phenomenon of time observed through nature, Jackson uses the daypoints of “sunrise, day, sunset, and dusk” as a means of thinking about heritage, identity, and the fragile continuity of culture in the ever-shifting Caribbean.
An interdisciplinary artist, John Reno Jackson draws inspiration from his Caymanian heritage and the dynamic environment surrounding him. His work and research are rooted in the tension of Caymanian people being the minority in their own nation, exploring how memory, migration, and materiality shape identity through the lens of geometric abstraction.
Disappearing Sun questions how culture persists in a region where the past is continually overwritten by tourism, globalisation, and the relentless acceleration of the modern world. Jackson rejects the binary logics of Euro-American Modernism, its strict doctrines of purity, and its fantasy of universality. Instead, he literally works from the ground up, sourcing materials and textures of the Cayman Islands, archipelagic thinking, and Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean technologies of ‘making’ that never needed permission from the Western canon.
Disappearing Sun ultimately asks one to hold on to what is graspable, by acknowledging that both erosion and renewal shape Caribbean realities. Opening Thursday, January 15th, 2026 with an artist walk-through from 5:30 – 6:00 pm, and formal reception from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, the exhibition will remain on view through February 28th, 2026.
John Reno Jackson
A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jackson received his MA in Painting (2025), previously attended BFA courses at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 2022 – 2024, and was enriched by mentorship from TURPS Correspondence Course from 2020 – 2022.