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.
BahamasBooks.com is thrilled to announce the launch of our International Story Showcase, a new online platform dedicated to celebrating fresh, compelling voices in the art of storytelling. In a time when distance can divide us, stories remind us of our shared humanity. They cross oceans, span cultures, and build bridges between people who may never […]
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Calling “All poets and spoken word artists from The Bahamas, including Bahamians studying or living abroad, to submit up to five poems” for a new poetry book to be published by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). “Where I See The Sun – Contemporary Poetry in The Bahamas” is the working title for the book project […]
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Calling all “poets and spoken word artists from The Bahamas, including Bahamians studying or living abroad, to submit up to five poems” for a new poetry book to be published by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). “Where I See The Sun – Contemporary Poetry in The Bahamas” is the working title for the planned book. […]
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In a roll call of the pioneers of modern photography, one name is never invoked. From the late 1920s to the 1950s, William Mortensen was one of the most famous and celebrated photographers in America. However, his subject matter – which veered towards the savage, indecorous, gothic and grotesque – as well as his use of montage […]
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Chemists from Holland’s University of Amsterdam (UvA) have finally worked out how Rembrandt managed to embellish his The Night Watch (1642) painting with striking golden detail. They used high-tech spectroscopic techniques to identify the presence of pararealgar [yellow] and semi-amorphous pararealgar [orange/red] pigments in minute detail in the famous artwork. The research team concluded that […]
Read MoreFrom the white void, a black speck emerges. No more than a few pixels wide at first, this blob drifts closer and closer to us. As it slowly nears, the blob becomes a being whose legs and arms can be seen swaying in the wind, whose blustery din acts as this image’s soundtrack. Then, at […]
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