Blue Curry is an artist working primarily in sculpture and installation who uses an idiosyncratic language of commonplace objects and found materials to engage with themes of exoticism, tourism and material culture.
He has exhibited in the Liverpool, SITE Santa Fe and Jamaica Biennials, the Caribbean Triennial as well as in galleries and institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Art Museum of the Americas, the World Bank, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Frost Museum and the Nassauischer Kunstverein. He is a graduate of the Goldsmiths College Fine Art MFA program. He currently lives in London and works between there and the Caribbean. He is also the Director of Ruby Cruel, a creative space in Hackney, London.
For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
He has exhibited in the Liverpool, SITE Santa Fe and Jamaica Biennials, the Caribbean Triennial as well as in galleries and institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Art Museum of the Americas, the World Bank, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Frost Museum and the Nassauischer Kunstverein. He is a graduate of the Goldsmiths College Fine Art MFA program. He currently lives in London and works between there and the Caribbean. He is also the Director of Ruby Cruel, a creative space in Hackney, London.
For his most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Blue Curry, Untitled, 2019, swimsuits, shower heads
Blue Curry, Piñata with the Sound of its Own Making, 2019, cardboard, crepe paper, bluetooth speaker, recorded audio 180 x 65 x 65 cm. Installation view at SCAN Project Room
Blue Curry, Tropisexy, 2018, 24 karat gold plated silver, cubic zirconia
Blue Curry, Untitled, 2011, slide projector carousel, ashtray, decorative planter, 25 x 25 x 25 cm
Blue Curry, Untitled, 2012, cars, orange, 800 x 800 cm
Blue Curry, 55 Gallon, 2016, fabricated barbeque steel pan drum ensemble, Commission for The Empire Remains Shop
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Leisure Aesthetics, TERN Gallery, The Bahamas 2019 Foreign Matter, duo exhibition with Fernando Martin Godoy, SCAN, London, UK 2018 Designer Exotics, Fabrikken, Copenhagen, Denmark J Bar, NLS, Kingston, Jamaica 2016 Dimensión Caribe, Centro León, Dominican Republic Platform 102, Brussels, Belgium 2014 Souvenir, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK 2013 The West 10th Window, Time Equities Art in Buildings Program, New York, USA Duo show with Ingo Gerken, LoBe, Berlin, Germany 2012 New Work, Art First Projects, London, UK 2011 Stranger than Paradise, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany Toomer Labzda, New York, USA Trove, Deptford X, London, UK Dragging Anchor, Low&High, Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Folkestone, Kent, UK Duo Exhibition, Nextex, St. Gallen, Switzerland Group Exhibitions 2022 Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, Americas Society Visual Arts, New York, USA Lovely View, Way Out East, London, UK Untitled Art Miami, Tern Gallery, Miami, Florida 2021 Life Between Islands, Tate Britain, London, UK When the Globe is Home, Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy Here Be Dragons:a Reprise, Copperfield, London, UK 2020 Small Axe Visualities: The Visual Life of Social Affliction: TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Mutadis Mutandis - 24 Pavilions, Giardini Projects, Studio Giardini, Venice, Italy The Frangenberg Collection Exhibition, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK Featured artist, MOCA London Web Exhibitions Visual Life of Social Affliction, a Small Axe Project, NEST, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2019 Visual Life of Social Affliction, a Small Axe Project, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Caribbean Visual Life of Social Affliction', a Small Axe Project, The Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, USA The Empire Remains Shop, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Delaware Art Museum, USA Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA Decoys and Deadheads, Werft 77, Dusseldorf, Germany Single-Use Planet, The International Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington D.C, USA 2018 Designer Exotics, FABRIKKEN, Copenhagen, Denmark I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not, Akademie de Kunste Studio, 10th Berlin Biennial event curated by Chris Cozier, Germany Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA New Relics, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK 2017 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, The Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA Übersee, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany TRIGGERED, Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Full Service___, Five Years, London, UK 2016 The Empire Remains Shop: Baker Street, London, UK out of place, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad Open Air Prisons: Las Antillas por los Antillanos, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California, USA 2nd Gran Bienal Tropical, curated by Marina Reyes Franco and Pablo Leon de la Barra, Kiosko La Comay, Puerto Rico The Explorers, Shoreditch Gallery Space, London, UK 2015 Sunscreen, online commission by EM15 for the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy The Presence of Absence, Berloni, London, UK Studio Voltaire Open, selected by Cory Arcangel and Hanne Mugaas, Studio Voltaire, London, UK 2014 Unsettled Landscapes: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica Numbered Days, duo exhibition with Aglae Bassens, CONVOY, London, UK Show Off, LeandaKateLouise Projects, London, UK Future Memories, 14°N 61°W, Martinique Curated by Paul Smith & Friends', Paul Smith, No.11 Albemarle Street, London, UK RE002_We Were All Rocks Once, Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 2013 40 years of Bahamian Art, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T., London, UK Misuse: Creating Alternatives, Cass Gallery, London, UK Legacy: Five Schemes, First Variation, KARST Projects, High Cross House, Devon, UK Friday Late: Flying High, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 2012 Zu Hause/At Home, LoBe, Berlin, Germany Confined, NEST, The Hague, the Netherlands Friday Late: Flying High, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Earth Works, P.P.O.W, New York, USA The Global Caribbean, Fondation Clément, Martinique Year One, Toomer Labzda, New York, USA Tryouts, Down Stairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire, UK Into the Mix, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Mad March Hares, Vegas Gallery, London, USA Powerless Structures, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK Earth Works, P.P.O.W, New York, USA 2011 Emergency5, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK About Change in the Caribbean and Latin America, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA Wrestling with the Image, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, USA Terms of Decision, Visual Arts Platform, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK Caribes Globales, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Puerto Rico Modern Frustrations, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London, UK Vessel, Stonehouse, Plymouth, UK Assembly, Bearspace, London, UK So Here We Are, Kunstverein Speyer, Germany 2010 City States, 6th Liverpool Biennial, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK 1st Triennial of Caribbean Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic Anticipation, Selfridges Ultralounge, London, UK NE5: Fifth National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, the Caribbean Nowhere in Peculiar, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London, UK Stardust Boogie Woogie, Monica Bobinska Gallery, London, UK Global Caraïbes, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France The Assistant, Bearspace, London, UK 2009 The Global Caribbean, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida, USA Rockstone and Bootheel, Real Art Ways, Connecticut, USA SoShow!, ShopAt34, London, UK I Know a Friend That Knows a Friend, Het Poortgebouw, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Hack Gold, (Space) Project Space, London, UK Group Grope, Area 10, London, UK R.I.P, Peacock Projects, London, UK Collections Within Collections, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas 2008 4th National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Carifesta, Caribbean Festival of the Arts, Georgetown, Guyana Setups Situations Solutions, Popopstudios, Bahamas 2007 Into Position, Bauernmarkt 9, Vienna, Austria Work!, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA The Next Level Guerilla Show, Photographers' Gallery, London, UK Domesticalia: The Politics of Repression’, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK Bahamian Art: Pre-Columbian to the Present, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas 2006 Funky Nassau: Recovering an Identity, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Germany & National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Exit, Popopstudios, Bahamas 3rd National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Debris, (with Heino Schmid) Nassau, Bahamas 2005 Alumni Art Exhibition, Tang Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, USA Interim, The Muse Gallery, London, UK National Collection Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Love, Popopstudios, Bahamas 2004 2nd National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. 2004 | Survey of Contemporary Bahamian Art, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Public Collections National Art Gallery of the Bahamas Residencies Documenta 15 w/Alice Yard, Kassel, Germany World Wide AIR Artist in Residence, FABRIKKEN, Copenhagen, Denmark NLS Residency, Kingston, Jamaica National Gallery of the Cayman Islands Residency, Cayman Islands Cannonball Residency in conjunction with the Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA Alice Yard Residency, Port of Spain, Trinidad Centro León Residency, Santiago, Dominican Republic LoBe Residency, Berlin; Peer Residency, Enclave, London, UK Fresh Milk Residency, Barbados Paradise Lodge Residency, India Omi International Artists Residency, New York, USA |