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terngallery TERN is a contemporary art gallery with a focus on Bahamian and Caribbean artists.

TERN is delighted to welcome Bahamian artist Anina Major back to Nassau for her second solo show at our space, SOON COME...
26/08/2026

TERN is delighted to welcome Bahamian artist Anina Major back to Nassau for her second solo show at our space, SOON COME HOME. A new body of work will be presented in a site-specific sculptural environment that expands her exploration of memory, migration, and material culture. Rather than imagining ‘home’ as a fixed geography, Major considers it an ongoing practice of remembering, repairing, and remaking, and a spiritual return to wholeness through ancestral roots.

Major has emerged as one of the most compelling voices working at the intersection of ceramics, sculpture, and installation. Hand-weaving clay to resemble palm-leaf plaiting, she uses her own clay recipe and an atmospheric firing process, incorporating shells, sand, sea glass, and found objects that warp textures and alter glazes. In SOON COME HOME, Major considers how labor, care, and craft preserve cultural memory while creating new possibilities for the future.

Anina Major (b. 1981, Nassau, Bahamas; lives and works in Upstate New York) holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Recent honors include a 2026 USA Fellowship, finalist recognition for the 2025 Loewe Craft Prize, The Armory Show Pommery Prize 2024, and the 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Her work is held in major collections including the National Gallery of The Bahamas; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

SOON COME HOME will be on view at TERN from September 16 through October 26, 2026, with an opening reception on September 16 from 7–9 PM. For more information about the exhibition or available works, please contact [email protected].

Photo credit Andrew T. White

Featured artwork: Show Me Your Motion, 2025. Glazed stoneware, silver luster, seaglass. 12¾ x 9¼ x 9¼ in.

A few final views of SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper before the exhibition comes to a close.With two days left to see the...
20/08/2026

A few final views of SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper before the exhibition comes to a close.

With two days left to see the show, visit us Friday from 10 AM–6 PM or during special closing hours this Saturday, August 22, from 10 AM–2 PM.

For more information or artwork inquiries, email [email protected] or visit terngallery.com.

TERN is delighted to announce the representation of Bahamian artist Gio Swaby (), serving as her Caribbean-based gallery...
11/08/2026

TERN is delighted to announce the representation of Bahamian artist Gio Swaby (), serving as her Caribbean-based gallery.

Born and raised in Nassau, The Bahamas, and now based in Toronto, Canada, Swaby creates textile-based portraits that explore the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Taught to sew by her mother as a young girl, she approaches making as an expression of love, building her portraiture through the painstaking labour of thread and fabric and a deep exchange between artist and sitter.

Through gesture, dress, hairstyle, and adornment, Swaby explores portraiture as a restorative act, celebrating the multifaceted aesthetics of contemporary Black womanhood while creating space for Black women and girls to be represented with honour, reverence, and nuance.

Swaby has presented solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Her work is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, among many others.

We are proud to welcome Gio to the TERN family and look forward to supporting her practice throughout the Caribbean while continuing to share her work with audiences and collectors internationally.

For available works and inquiries, please contact us at [email protected].

Featured artwork — Baby Hairs 16, 2025. Thread and fabric sewn on canvas. 20 × 16 in.

We're delighted to announce TERN's fourth participation in The Armory Show (), where the gallery with present new work b...
28/07/2026

We're delighted to announce TERN's fourth participation in The Armory Show (), where the gallery with present new work by Bahamian artists Gio Swaby and Kachelle Knowles in this year's FOCUS section, curated by María Elena Ortiz.

In her threaded fabric portraits, Swaby explores identity and the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Knowles, meanwhile, directs her gaze toward Bahamian men. Where Swaby treats physical identity as a force of connection and intimacy, Knowles seeks to unpack perceptions of Black masculinity through soft graphite portraits, revealing a vulnerability that challenges commonly misunderstood appearances. Uniting both artists' work is a strong sense of fashion and style; each pays close attention to pattern and dress as a means of expressing individuality and joy.

We're honoured to return to the fair following our Pommery Prize-winning presentation with Anina Major.

Join us at the Javits Center in New York from September 25–27, with a VIP Preview on September 24. We look forward to sharing more about the presentation in the coming weeks.



Simon Tatum’s processes of undoing and remaking object and figure, alongside Jodi Minnis-Rolle’s use of texture and asse...
24/07/2026

Simon Tatum’s processes of undoing and remaking object and figure, alongside Jodi Minnis-Rolle’s use of texture and assemblage, recontextualize domestic objects and artifacts to subvert political and personal narratives associated with the postcolonial condition.

This exploration of identity and reclamation continues in Cydne Jasmin Coleby’s Growing into My Features (2024), which employs self-portraiture as a means of exploring personal reclamation and autonomy. Presented alongside the work is Steven Schmid’s collage on handmade paper, which draws from the aesthetics of hip hop to consider how personal histories, stories, and ideologies can physically exist within the body.

SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper remains on view at TERN through August 22, 2026. Email us at [email protected] for more information.

Artworks featured in the order they appear:

Simon Tatum: The Mahogany, 2 of 6, 2024. Screen print on paper with hand drawn or hand painted details. 20 x 16 in.

Jodi Minnis: We Landed on Clifton and the Whales Wept, 2025. Found object, marker and mixed media collage on paper. 14 x 11 in.

Cydne Jasmin Coleby: Growing into My Features, 2024. Acrylic, decorative paper, photo collage, sand and glitter on paper. 24 x 18 in.

Steven Schmid: All Teeth 3, 2023. Acrylic, Assemblage, Colouring Pencils, Image Transfer on Handmade Paper. 21¾ x 31¾ in.



Huge congratulations to TERN artist Cydne Jasmin Coleby on completing her MFA at Bard College.We all knew she was a mast...
21/07/2026

Huge congratulations to TERN artist Cydne Jasmin Coleby on completing her MFA at Bard College.

We all knew she was a master before—there has always been an innate material intelligence to her practice—but it's always nice to have the official title.

Working with Cydne is a privilege. Thoughtful, generous, and deeply committed to her practice, she continues to expand the possibilities of her work in ways that are both rigorous and surprising. Her presentation in Reassembly, Bard MFA's 2026 thesis exhibition, is a testament to the ambition and clarity of her evolving practice.

Cydne, we celebrate this remarkable milestone and all that it represents. We are proud to be on this journey with you and excited for everything that comes next.

Brava!



We are delighted to welcome Arianna Cochinamogulos () to the TERN team as Gallery Administrator. Arianna is a contempora...
20/07/2026

We are delighted to welcome Arianna Cochinamogulos () to the TERN team as Gallery Administrator.

Arianna is a contemporary artist from Nassau, Bahamas and holds a BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her experience as both an artist and arts professional brings a valuable perspective to the gallery and to the artists and communities we serve.

She joins Lauren, Amanda, and Romel in furthering TERN's mission to support Bahamian and Caribbean artists, foster meaningful cultural exchange, and contribute to the continued growth of the region's contemporary art ecosystem.

We're thrilled to have Arianna on board and look forward to all that's ahead.




Jason BennettMissed Exit, II, 2022 Mixed Media 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)Jason Bennett transforms paper through tearing...
17/07/2026

Jason Bennett
Missed Exit, II, 2022
Mixed Media
30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Jason Bennett transforms paper through tearing, layering, and reconstruction, building layers of texture to illustrate landscapes and journeys. Drawing from geographical and topical aspects through repetition and line, Bennett suggests — rather than directly depicts — intimate places, resulting in a body of work that is more concerned with shaping new geographies than describing a specific location or moment.

Bennett studied visual art at the College of The Bahamas before earning a BFA in Fine Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998.

SUMMER SUMMER | works on paper is on view at TERN through August 22. For more information about the exhibition or the artist, email [email protected].




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