TERN is elated to announce its fall exhibition, Me ‘n’ Mines, showcasing new works by Bahamian artists Heino Schmid and Steven Schmid. The brothers, nearly a generation apart, have never exhibited together before. They are both known for pushing the needle forward on the concepts of destruction and reconstruction while exploring themes of family, home, belonging and Caribbean male masculinity.
On view now through October 25th, 2025, Me ‘n’ Mines is the result of both artists setting out to determine what a new world could look like, if they and their beloveds were able to show up flawed, yet ready to work.
Exhibition Essay: Me ‘n’ Mines written by Kevanté A.C. Cash
Heino Schmid
Heino Schmid is a Bahamian multi-media artist working in a variety of disciplines that drive his creative process of visual deconstruction and cultural analysis. Working primarily in iterations of charcoal on paper, Schmid’s gestural drawings focus on the nuances of posture, relation, and reduction. As an observer, Schmid pulls from remembered gestures as a primary visual vocabulary. The figures in the work are a compilation of moments, interactions, and idiosyncrasies from those in his immediate space creating a sense of familiarity between the subject and the viewer. Schmid’s three-dimensional and installation works are composed of objects from the landscape and detritus. Once again pulling from his immediate space, the objects that appear and reappear throughout his oeuvre become a visual language that shifts in translation.
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Steven Schmid
Steven Schmid is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of masculinity and otherness through painting, collage and assemblage. Adopting Hip-Hop production and sampling as a visual practice, Schmid’s current research explores how laughter, humour and play can imagine more expansive representations of Bahamian masculinity and individualism. He has exhibited in several galleries and fairs including Gallery House in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, TERN Gallery in Nassau, The Bahamas, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and SCOPE Art Fair in Miami, Florida, United States. Schmid received his BFA in Film, Video and Integrated Media from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2016 and a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design from Ontario College of Art & Design University in 2022. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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