Dach&Zephir
Graduates of the National School of Decorative Arts of Paris, Dimitri Zephir and Florian Dach founded their creative studio dach&zephir in 2016. Mixing fervor and poetry, their contemporary creations celebrate the creole cultural heritage from the French Caribbean while integrating other cultures, therefore echoing the thinking of Martinican poet Édouard Glissant on creolization. For the duo, History and personal stories are starting points in design, acknowledging that objects are mediums for our minds. Through historic textile collages, lamps incorporating indigenous plants or seeds, rugs woven in celebration of black hair, their productions aim at revealing to the world the historic and cultural specificities of Caribbean territories.
View ArtistAngelika Wallace-Whitfield
Angelika Wallace-Whitfield (b. 1993) abandoned medical school to pursue art, exploring human and animal instincts in her work. A former curator at the D’Aguilar Art Foundation in Nassau, she holds a Master’s in Art History and specializes in murals and public art. Angelika Wallace-Whitfield explores human interaction, instinct, and identity, often drawing parallels between human and animal behaviors. Her work, spanning paintings, murals, and public art, features bold, arresting imagery. Influenced by philosophy and psychology, she examines femininity and primal instincts, using expressive forms to challenge perceptions of self and society. She has exhibited widely in The Bahamas, including True Grit (2023), a duo exhibition with Jason Bennett at The Current: ECCHO; Outside In (2023) at CAB Gallery and Studio; and Contact Trace (2021) at the D’Aguilar Art Foundation. Her work is featured at Nassau International Airport and in major Bahamian art collections.
View ArtistYamile Pardo Menéndez
Yamile Pardo Menéndez (b. 1971) creates sculptures, installations, and object-based works exploring material, space, and sensory perception. Her practice challenges conventional functions through unexpected material juxtapositions, generating new discourses within both local and international contemporary art contexts. Yamile Pardo Menéndez transforms objects through material recycling and staging, challenging their original functions. Her practice explores absurd material combinations, sensory responses, and the feminine universe. Space-context relationships and the titles are essential to her sculptures and installations, creating new visual discourses and constructions. Yamile Pardo Menéndez has exhibited internationally, with solo shows like It’s Run in the Family (2019) and Dark and Sweet (2013). She participated in Cuba, Non Femeni (UNESCO, 2013), Havana Bienniales, including collateral projects like Parallel Rules (2024), and led educational programs such as Approach (2017) and Zip (2015).
View ArtistDede Brown
Dede Brown (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist from The Bahamas, with formal training in visual art and design from SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. Her practice is rooted in self-exploration, nature, and cultural memory. She draws from her Caribbean heritage and lived experiences to create work that speaks to identity, emotion, and transformation. Dede creates experimental, mixed media portraits using photography, digital collage, and natural materials like seafan coral on copper. Her work explores themes of feminine strength, identity, and healing. Layering texture and symbolism, she evokes dreamlike, introspective spaces that invite connection between self and collective human experience. Relevant works include three permanent sculptures—two at the Nassau Airport and one at Baha Mar Resorts. She has held three solo exhibitions, participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs, in The Bahamas, the U.S., and France, and attended three international artist residencies.
View ArtistPatricia Encarnación
Patricia Encarnación (she/they) (b. 1991) is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artivist and scholar whose work challenges colonial tropes in Caribbean culture through an anti-colonial lens. Encarnación has participated in residencies at The Shed, Smack Mellon (as a Van Lier Fellow), and Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center and has received recognition from the NALAC Fund for the Arts, CIFO, the Centro León Jiménez Biennial, and the Tribeca Artists Award Program. Encarnación’s work has been exhibited at Documenta 15, WPA, MOLAA, and the NADA Art Fair. They have also contributed to curatorial initiatives at the Centro de la Imagen (CDMX), the Bronx Museum, ChaShama, WOPHA Miami, and alternative galleries in NYC, Miami, and the Dominican Republic. Encarnación earned a full-tuition scholarship for a BFA at Parsons School of Design (The New School) and received the MacCracken Fellowship for graduate studies in Caribbean and Latin American Museum Studies at New York University.
View ArtistSteven Schmid
Steven Schmid (b. 1987) is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist exploring masculinity and otherness through painting, collage, and assemblage. Inspired by Hip-Hop sampling, his work uses humor and play to challenge identity norms. He has exhibited in The Bahamas and Canada and holds an MFA from OCAD University. While residing in Toronto, Steven Schmid explores Bahamian identity and masculinity through painting, collage, digital media, and assemblage. Inspired by Hip-Hop sampling, he uses play, laughter, and improvisation to challenge colonial constructs. Merging digital and physical elements, his work reimagines personal histories and everyday spaces as sites for self-expression, decolonization, and empowerment. Steven Schmid has exhibited widely, including solo shows I am here are you (Gallery House, 2024) and Showin’ Teeth (The Current: ECCHO, 2023). He has participated in FUZE Art Expo, SCOPE Art Show, and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas’ Biennials. Schmid has received multiple Canada Council for the Arts grants.
View ArtistStephen Arboite
Stephen Arboite (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian descent, based in Miami. Primarily self-taught, he builds upon his foundational studies in drawing and painting at SUNY Purchase to explore beauty beyond classical aesthetics, emphasizing spiritual transformation and the evolution of human consciousness. His mixed-media works—featuring coffee, fire, and natural pigments—explore memory, identity, and spirituality. Through series like Portal and Machèt, he transforms destruction into creation, invoking Vodou and African traditions to challenge colonial narratives and invite reflection on ancestral wisdom and the unseen. Arboite’s work has been exhibited at prominent venues including T&Y projects Tokyo, Sperone Westwater, and MOCAD Detroit. His work is included in the collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami and MOCA North Miami. In 2021, Arboite was honored as a Knight Arts Champion by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
View ArtistRoseman Robinot
Roseman Robinot’s (b. 1944) work draws from Caribbean histories, bodies, and landscapes. She was awarded the Ondes residency (Cité des Arts, 2023) and nominated for the 2023 AWARE Prize, honoring women in art and research. Inspired by Jacques Stephen Alexis’s marvellous realism, Robinot explores the body and the landscape as interconnected sites of memory and transformation. Using mixed media—acrylic, textiles, drawing—she creates rhythmic, layered works marked by gesture, breath, and symbolic traces that evoke the invisible, the ancestral, and the unspoken. Robinot has exhibited at major biennials and institutions, including São Paulo, Cairo, and the Centre Pompidou. Her work is currently featured in Paris Noir (2025). Notable solo exhibitions include Clairières (Cité des Arts, Paris) and Réalités Fantastiques (Cayenne). She is represented in public collections in French Guiana, Martinique, and France.
View ArtistRonald Cyrille
Ronald Cyrille (b. 1984), also known as B. Bird, is a Guadeloupean-Dominican artist with a Master of Fine Arts from the Caribbean Campus of the Arts in Martinique. His work is shaped by a layered cultural heritage and a strong connection to the Caribbean’s symbolic and narrative traditions. Navigating between studio work and street art, Cyrille blends figuration and abstraction to explore memory, identity, and spirituality. His symbolic universe—populated by birds, dogs, boats, and water—reflects themes of wandering, resilience, creolization, and the tension between nature and urban life. Cyrille has shown at the Cité internationale des Arts, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, and Prospect.6 in New Orleans. A “Mondes Nouveaux” laureate, he has also exhibited with Pérez Art Museum Miami, Tern Gallery (Bahamas), Fondation Clément (Martinique), TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION (USA), across Europe and the Americas.
View ArtistMark Delmont
Mark Delmont (b. 1990), a Miami-based artist, explores the intersection of labor, culture, and identity. Raised in Carol City with Jamaican and Haitian roots, his work merges construction techniques with storytelling, reflecting his upbringing & community. A self-taught painter, he channels his blue-collar background into works that honor resilience and history. Delmont’s practice examines the balance between construction and destruction, using paint and mixed media to depict the overlooked narratives of Black and Brown communities. Influenced by car culture, cinema, and his father’s fabrication work, he blends figurative and abstract elements to reclaim space and dignity for his subjects. Delmont’s recent accolades include his Papers (2024) solo exhibition at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, marking a pivotal moment in his career. He is the cover artist for Miami’s Arts & Culture 2025, a Harpo Foundation Grant recipient, and a 2024 MASS MoCA resident.
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