May 23 - June 20, 2026
We Are Our Own Discoverers
Amaani Hepburn
Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Heino Schmid
Matthew David Rahming
TERN Gallery is thrilled to announce its upcoming Transforming Spaces exhibition, “We Are Our Own Discoverers“, opening on May 30th and 31st.
TERN has invited curator Christina Wong-Turnquest to lead us on this daring objective. Four explorers, Amaani Hepburn, Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Heino Schmid, and Matthew David Rahming, are positioned as adventurers and discoverers entrusted with a fearless mission: to investigate the undercurrents of community, culture, and identity.
The resulting exhibition “We Are Our Own Discoverers” takes inspiration from the enduring spirit of the late Patricia Glinton-Meicholas’ poetry collection “Chasing Light”, specifically the poem “Staking Claim to Our Souls.” In the act of truth-seeking, this exhibition becomes a journey through shadowed spaces toward revelation, reclamation, and radiance. Here, light operates as a force that clarifies, confronts, and transforms.
Transforming Spaces is a non-profit organization that plays a vital role in preserving Bahamian culture, supporting local artists, and promoting art education while fostering economic growth and international recognition through the development of the visual arts in The Bahamas. Known for its annual island-wide art week bus tour that visits 6 - 8 art spaces across Nassau, Bahamas.
If you're here or visiting, you don't want to miss this exploratory journey. The exhibition will remain on view Saturday, May 23rd, through Saturday, June 20th.
Amaani Hepburn
Amaani Hepburn is a Bahamian artist and arts educator whose practice explores the nature of intimacy, self, and environment. Drawing from personal experience and communal memory, Hepburn weaves ideas of community, re-examines identity, and builds a layered mythos around everyday life. Hepburn earned her Associate of Arts in Art from the University of The Bahamas. Exhbitions include In the Sway of The Wind, Mestre Projects, Nassau (2024); NELEVEN: Into the Void, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau (2025); Reglas Paralelas, Bordón’s Studio, Havana (2024).
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Matthew David Rahming
Matthew David Rahming is a contemporary Bahamian artist working primarily in abstraction. His practice is grounded in drawing and painting, exploring rhythm, structure, and texture through layers of charcoal, oil, and mixed media. Rahming has established himself as an emerging voice in Bahamian art. His most recent solo exhibition, Sons of David, Central Bank of the Bahamas, Nassau (2025). He also participated in the prestigious Fountainhead Residency in Miami, sponsored by the Central Bank of The Bahamas, in 2025 where he further developed his approach to large-scale abstraction.
Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Cydne Jasmin Coleby is an interdisciplinary artist from The Bahamas, primarily working in digital and mixed media. Her collage practice investigates the transformative effects of trauma and grief through a personal lens. Her practice meditates on the difficulty in distinguishing between which experiences (lived and inherited) inform, rather than define, our sense of identity. Colbey’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Central America, the United States, and the Caribbean. She is apart of the permanent collections of The Syracuse University - Art Museum Syracuse, NY, and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.
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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. Schmid completed his MA in Fine Arts from Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design in The Netherlands in 2006. A founding member of POPOPStudios, Schmid emphasizes collaboration and the activation of space throughout his practice.
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