Our Bahamas Art Channel is curated by Bahamian artists who have contributed to the art community in The Bahamas for decades.
About Bahamian Art
Bahamian artists have evolved over the decades, moving away from traditional folk art to a more personal style. Contemporary Bahamian art is now being recognized and sold around the world. Art from Bahamian photographers is also becoming more popular in galleries and online sales.
The Bahamas has long had a vibrant arts community encompassing artists working in a wide variety of creative fields. The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas features an extensive collection of primarily Bahamian art, including paintings by Amos Ferguson, sculptures by Antonius Roberts and pencil drawings of historic Nassau from the 18th century. Other galleries and Bahamas artist studios are located in Nassau and throughout the other Bahama islands.
For many years, art in The Bahamas consisted primarily of straw crafts and paintings of island life, created primarily for the tourist market. Over the past few decades, a new crop of Bahamian artists has emerged on the scene expressing themselves in new, creative and uniquely Bahamian ways. These young artists are encouraging a new form of individualism and artistic personality.
Meet Bahamian artists and find locations of art galleries and other art resources in the Bahamas art listings in our hand-selected Directory.
We feature art and artists of The Bahamas including artwork, artist interviews, art & culture events, exhibition reviews and gallery openings.
José Braulio Bedia Valdés is a Cuban painter currently residing in Florida. Bedia studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” and then finished his art studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. José Bedia: The Island That Died, 1996, acrylic on canvas, 71½ by 103 inches. In tandem with the […]
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Matthew Wong: River at Night, 2018, oil on canvas. ©Matthew Wong Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York For the annual Art in America Guide, published in print in January, the editors of A.i.A. highlight significant and intriguing museum exhibitions throughout the year. Follow the link below for a list of noteworthy shows opening in January […]
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Courtesy of Johnny Fogg. The amount of Indigenous art collected and properly contextualized by cultural institutions remains slim. Meanwhile, that art is undervalued and overlooked by inequitable market dynamics. However, public engagement on the subject is increasing, thanks to the handful of specialized curators of Indigenous art at major museums and the networks of artists […]
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In Glass Onion, a rich business mogul (Edward Norton) borrows the Mona Lisa during a pandemic. Every joke has a grain of truth in it, and the central one in Glass Onion, Rian Johnson’s new celebrity-bedecked murder mystery now streaming on Netflix, contains more than a bit of honesty. The gag revolves around the Mona […]
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One of the highlights of the Winter season in Miami, Florida is Art Basel. The first week of December sprouts the lush tree of events, parties, concerts and happenings. Convention centers are used to house literally thousands of pieces of art, while event spaces and venues are turned into impromptu galleries to display art from […]
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From underwater scenes to dry land, and from coastlines to the thick of Bahamian coppice forests, soft colours and tropical scenes play a prominent role in the work of Bahamian artist Dyah Neilson, who is known for the use of metaphors in many of her acrylic paintings. And her newest exhibition, Flora and Fauna, which […]
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