SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper brings together a diverse group of artists working across collage, printmaking, handmade paper, drawing, and mixed media. Through varied approaches to material, process, and form, the exhibition explores the expansive possibilities of paper as a medium.

At once familiar and transformative, paper serves as a site for experimentation, storytelling, abstraction, and play, revealing the richness and diversity of contemporary Caribbean artistic practice.

Exhibiting Artists

Melissa Alcena

b. 1988, The Bahamas
Through intimate portraits of people in situ, Alcena reimagines the Bahamian landscape, challenging familiar visual tropes of the Caribbean while exploring kinship, place, and belonging.
Delton Barrett

b. 1991, The Bahamas
Barrett reimagines everyday Caribbean landscapes through surreal, self-portrait-based photography. His vibrant images explore identity, emotion, and the shifting realities of twenty-first-century island life.
Jason Bennett

b. 1974, Florida, USA
Meandering topographies, repetition, and floral forms shape Jason Bennett's paintings and mixed-media collages, which construct imagined geographies that evoke landscape, memory, and journey.
La Vaughn Belle

b. 1974, Trinidad and Tobago
Working across painting, installation, photography, writing, video, and public interventions, Belle examines the material culture of coloniality, creating narratives from fragments and silences that imagine new geographies.
Leonardo Benzant

b. 1972, Dominican-American
Bridging the spiritual and material realities of the African diaspora, Benzant creates expressive paintings and elaborate beaded sculptures informed by Kongo and Yoruba traditions.
April Bey

b. 1987, The Bahamas
Drawing on Afrofuturism, Afrosurrealism, feminism, and popular culture, Bey examines race, identity, and postcolonial power through layered works that critique contemporary American and Bahamian society.
Cydne Jasmin Coleby

b. 1993, The Bahamas
Coleby works primarily in digital and mixed-media collage, using her practice to explore trauma, grief, and the reclamation of self through deeply personal narratives.
John Cox

b. 1976, The Bahamas
Challenging familiar clichés and cultural tropes, John Cox works across media to bring together unexpected references from Bahamian and global visual culture. His playful, layered practice reimagines ideas of place, identity, and history.
Kendra Frorup

b. [ ], The Bahamas
Frorup transforms everyday, often organic materials into playful sculptural works inspired by the sensory experience of growing up in The Bahamas. Drawing on familiar sounds, tastes, smells, and landscapes, her practice translates memory and place into tactile, evocative forms.
Kachelle Knowles

b. 1990, The Bahamas
Knowles explores gender identity, Black social relations, and cultural production through paintings centered on the Black male figure. Balancing masculine and feminine perspectives, her work examines identity, intimacy, and the complexities of representation.
Jodi Minnis-Rolle

b. 1995, The Bahamas
Through photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and performance, Minnis-Rolle interrogates representations of Black Bahamian women at the intersection of gender, race, and culture. Her work challenges inherited tropes while reclaiming the complexity and agency of Black Caribbean womanhood.
Heino Schmid

b. 1976, The Bahamas
Heino Schmid works across drawing, sculpture, and installation, using remembered gestures as a visual vocabulary to explore posture, relation, and perception. Through reduction and repetition, his practice offers a nuanced form of cultural observation and visual deconstruction.
Steven Schmid

b. 1987, The Bahamas
Borrowing the logic of hip-hop production and sampling, Steven Schmid creates paintings, collages, and assemblages that explore masculinity, otherness, and identity. Through humour and play, his work reimagines the possibilities of Bahamian masculinity.
Simon Tatum

b. 1995, Cayman Islands
Working across drawing, sculpture, and installation, Tatum examines the material and psychological legacies of what he terms "colonial debris." His practice brings familial memory into dialogue with the broader histories and ongoing complexities of the postcolonial Caribbean.
Drew Weech

b. 1984, The Bahamas
Weech explores the notion of home through paintings that juxtapose historical and contemporary archetypes, often employing a black-and-white palette. Rejecting singular narratives, his work challenges the paradisiacal gaze by bringing personal and collective histories into conversation.
Tessa Whitehead

b. 1985, The Bahamas
Blending the Bahamian landscape with surreal figures and familial portraiture, Whitehead creates paintings, drawings, and sculptures rooted in autobiography. Her work explores the emotional terrain of femininity, memory, and the self.