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Blue Curry

b.1974, Nassau, Bahamas.


 
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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.

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Blue Curry, Untitled, 2019, swimsuits, shower heads
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Blue Curry, PiƱata 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
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Blue Curry, Tropisexy, 2018, 24 karat gold plated silver, cubic zirconia
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Blue Curry, Untitled, 2011, slide projector carousel, ashtray, decorative planter, 25 x 25 x 25 cm
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Blue Curry, Untitled, 2012, cars, orange, 800 x 800 cm
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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