Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Nassau, Bahamas
b. 1993, Nassau, Bahamas
EDUCATION
2013 | The University of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Daughter of The Soil, Cadet Capela, Paris, France
2023 | One of The Boys, TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2021 | Queen Mudda, Unit London, London, England
2020 | Family Matters, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 | How Do You Want to See Yourself, Galleria Anna Marra, Roma RM, Italy
2023 | Recuerdos Del Terraplen Pt.1, Casa Santa Ana, Santa Ana, Panama City
2023 | Price Collection, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC
2023 | Return The Gaze, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2022 | NE10: Mercy, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2022 | Cydne Jasmin Coleby & Rico Gatson, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris France
2022 | Identity Fabric, King Manor Museum, New York NY
2022 | To Each Her Own, Urban Zen, New York NY
2022 | Stick It, TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2021 | My Secret Garden, Asian Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 | Uncurated Vol 1., Uncuated Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
2020 | BLACK VOICES NYC, Ross Sutton Gallery, New York, NY
2020 | Live Curation with Folasade Ologundudu, SHOWFIELDS, New York, NY
2020 | Personal Mythologies, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France
2020 | Drawn Together, Unit London, London, UK
2020 | Pressure Drop, Gallery MC , New York, NY
2019 | Refuge, The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2019 | Small Works, The Current: Baha Mar Gallery & Art Center, Nassau, Bahamas
2018 | National Exhibition 9 : The Fruit & The Seed, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 | AAA, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 | Annual Open Art Competition and Exhibition, The Central Bank of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 | Absolut Vodka Art Competition, D’Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, Bahamas
2012 | Color of Harmony, The College the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2012 | The Salus Project, The Salus Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2012 | Transforming Spaces: Fibre, Hillside House Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
FAIRS
2024 | FUZE Art Expo (Group Presentation), TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2024 | Expo Chicago (Duo Presentation), TERN Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 | Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach (Group Presentation), TERN Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2023 | 1-54 Fair (Duo Presentation), Unit London, London, UK
2022 | Future Fair (Group Presentation), TERN Gallery, New York, NY
2021 | Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach (Solo Presentation), Galerie Julien Cadet, Miami Beach, FL
2021 | Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach (Group Presentation), TERN Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2024 | Broadway Housing Communities: Benefit Auction 2024
2024 | Art for Change Prospect Park Activation, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2023 | The Island House Film Festival, The Island House, Nassau, Bahamas
2021 | ARTNOIR From: Friends To: Friends Benefit Auction 2021
2021 | Art Noir x Artsy Subway Activation, New York, NY, USA
2021 | Cydne Jasmin Coleby x Maria Brito Limited Edition Vases, Showfields
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 | Poinciana Paper Press Residency, Nassau, Bahamas
2024 | Lyford Cay Foundations Harry C Moore Scholarship for the Arts Recipient, Nassau, Bahamas
2024 | Charitable Arts Foundation Grant, Nassau, Bahamas
2022| Silver Art Projects Residency, New York, NY, USA
2022 | Charitable Arts Foundation Grant, Nassau, Bahamas
2022 | Wassaic Project Winter Residency, Wassaic, NY, USA
2021 | Reformation: Curator’s Pick by Natasha Becker, Untitled Art Fair Miami 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Carla Shulting, Lara Stolwrk, “Cydne Jasmin Coleby”, African Supernova: Collection Carla & Pieter Schulting, September 2023, 49.
Alison Syrett, “Style In Creative Space”, In Style Magazine Badass Women, (February 2022), 68.
Florence Bailey, “Crêpe Paper & Craftsmanship: The Multifarious Fine Artist Cydne Jasmin Coleby”, Whytt Magazine (December 2021), 98-101.
Whitewaller Magazine, “Art Issue”, Whitewaller Magazine Issue 32 Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, Dec 2021, Cover.
Teri Henderson, “Cydne Jasmin Coleby”, Black Collagists: The Book (2021), 68-71.
Tam Gryn, “Celebrating Women in The Arts”, Create! Magazine, vol. 25 (May 2021), 36.
Cory Torres Bishop, “In Defense of Paradise,” Forgotten Lands, no. 3 (March 2021): 131-142.
Larry Ossei-Mensh, “Curated Section”, Create! Magazine, vol. 22 (November 2020), 84-87
Dr. Ian Bethell Bennett, “Seeing the God in me”, National Exhibition Nine: The Fruit And The Seed (May 2019), 25-28.
PRESS
Brianna Beckham, Good Black Art’s New York Art Week Roundup, Good Black Art, May 10, 2022.
https://goodblackart.com/blogs/narratives/good-black-arts-new-york-art-week-roundup
Brian P. Kelly , The Best Booths at New York Art Week 2022, Artsy.Net, May 6, 2022.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-best-booths-new-york-art-week-2022
Carolina Wheat and Liz Nielsen, “The fair that’s breaking the art world rules”, Soho House, May 4, 2022
.https://www.sohohouse.com/house-notes/issue-006/art-and-design/future-fair
Hannah Seligson, “Can Nassau Become a New Destination for Art?”, Barron’s, April 2, 2022.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/can-nassau-become-a-new-destination-for-art-01648842025
Kemi Falodun, “Cydne Jasmin Coleby — These collages explore intergenerational trauma”, We Present, March 31, 2022. https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/cydne-jasmin-coleby-on-collage-trauma-and-healing
Isis Davis-Marks, “How Mashonda Tifrere’s New Exhibition “To Each, Her Own” Puts Women First”, Cultured Mag, March 18, 2022. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/03/18/how-mashonda-tifreres-new-exhibition-to-each-her-own-puts-women-first
Alesha Cadet, “Cultural Collage: Four artists examine their histories in new “Stick It” Exhibition”, The Tribune: Weekend, February 4, 2022, cover; 8-9. https://issuu.com/thetribune242/docs/02042022_weekend
Eye Witness News, “‘Stick It’ exhibition opens at TERN Gallery”, January 28, 2022.
https://ewnews.com/stick-it-exhibition-opens-at-tern-gallery
Contemporary And,” Exhibition: Stick It – Group Show”, January, 2022.
https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/stick-it-group-show/
Caribe Art, “Collage-based Exhibition – Stick It (TERN Gallery)”, January, 2022.
https://caribeart.fr/event/collage-based-exhibition-stick-it-tern-gallery/
Repeating Islands, “New Exhibition: Stick It (Tern Gallery)”, January 22, 2022.
https://repeatingislands.com/2022/01/22/new-exhibition-stick-it-tern-gallery/
Sara Orlandini, Cydne Jasmin Coleby: Art A Way to Develop Our Identity, Dare Clan, January 13, 2022.
https://www.dareclan.com/post/cydne-jasmin-colby-art-a-way-to-develop-our-identity
Nathania Maynard, “22 Artists to Watch at Art Basel Miami 2021”, Bettershared.co, Dec 2021.
https://bettershared.co/blogs/news/who-you-should-be-looking-out-for-at-art-basel-miami-2021
Gio Swaby, “What Did Artists Like at Art Week Miami”, Sugarcanemag.come, December 6, 2021.
https://sugarcanemag.com/2021/12/what-did-artist-like-at-art-week-miami/
Salomé Gómez-Upegui, “The 10 Best Booths at Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021”, Artsy.com, Nov 30 2021.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-best-booths-untitled-art-miami-beach-2021
Sasha Cascone, “In Miami, Buyers Hit the Beach for Untitled Art Fair—to Gallerists’ Palpable Relief. Here’s What’s Sold So Far”, news.artnet.com, November 30, 2021.
https://news.artnet.com/market/untitled-miami-beach-2021-2041541
Payal Uttum, “Brave New World: Meet the New Generation of Art Collectors”, Prestigeonline.com, July 27, 2021. https://www.prestigeonline.com/hk/pursuits/art-culture/brave-new-world-meet-the-new-generation-of-art-collectors/
Folasade Ologundudu, “Nonprofit ARTNOIR Continues to Empower Artists of Color with a New Scholarship for MFA Students”, Artsy.net Jul 13, 2021. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nonprofit-artnoir-continues-empower-artists-color-new-scholarship-mfa-students
Valentina Di Liscia, “Artists Support Victims of Surfside Condo Collapse”, Hyperallergic.com, July 2, 2021.
https://hyperallergic.com/660894/miami-artists-support-surfside-condo-collapse-victims/
Fernando Huacuz, Cydne Jasmin Coleby examina lo grandioso de la mujer negra, allcitycanvas.com, April 19, 2021. https://www.allcitycanvas.com/cydne-jasmin-coleby-examina-lo-grandioso-de-la-mujer-negra/
Alicia Puig, “Cydne Jasmin Coleby’s First Solo Exhibition In London: Queen Mudda At Unit London”, Create! Magazine, March 29, 2021. https://createmagazine.com/read/2021/3/29/cydne-jasmin-colebys-first-solo-exhibition-in-london-queen-mudda-at-unit-london
Mark Westall, “CYDNE JASMIN COLEBY: QUEEN MUDDA”, Fadmagazine.com, March 25, 2021.
https://fadmagazine.com/2021/03/25/cydne-jasmin-coleby-queen-mudda/
Izzie Price, “10 emerging artists you should be investing in”, Gentleman's Journal.
https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/article/10-emerging-artists-you-should-be-investing-in/
Eileen Kinsella, Curatorial Dynamo Destinee Ross-Sutton Just Opened a New Project Space Dedicated to Black Art in SoHo—No Flippers Allowed, Artnet News, December 22, 2020.
https://news.artnet.com/market/destinee-ross-sutton-new-soho-gallery-1933053
Martin Bentant, “Cydne Jasmin Coleby « Family Matters » : La nouvelle exposition de l’artiste bahaméenne présentée à la galerie Julien Cadet”, Luxe, December 19 2020.
https://luxe.net/cydne-jasmin-coleby-family-matters-la-nouvelle-exposition-de-lartiste-bahameenne-presentee-a-la-galerie-julien-cadet/
Jodi Mnnis, “Young Lions: Our Culture Looks Bright”, Up and Away, April 2020, 33-34.
https://issuu.com/roscoedames/docs/u_a_april-june_2020_final_single_pages/34?ff
On View: Refuge At The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Caribbean Beat, January/February 2020, 32-33. https://issuu.com/meppublishers/docs/caribbean_beat_161
Natalie Willis, Specimens Of Memory, The Nassau Guardian, Nassau, Bahamas, January 18, 2020. https://thenassauguardian.com/2020/01/18/specimens-of-memory/
Kevanté A.C. Cash, “The God Self: Lessons On Self-Love From Emerging Aritst Cydne Coleby”, Mixed Media Blog, March 19, 2019. https://nagb.org.bs/mixedmediablog/2019/3/19/the-god-self-lessons-on-self-love-from-emerging-artist-cydne-coleby
Interviews
Christabel Johanson, “Queen Mudda”, Africanah, May 7, 2021
https://africanah.org/cydne-jasmin-coleby-2/
Alex Wilson,“Cydne Coleby”, Who’s Flying The Plane Podcast, April 26, 2021
https://whosflyingtheplane.podbean.com/e/cydne-coleby/
Henri Robert, “Black Culture is Resilient”, Happening Media, April 21, 2021
https://www.happening.media/category/magazine/en/article/607fe3573d07662f0cd67dbe/cydne-jasmin-coleby-black-culture-is-resilient
Millie Walton, “Cydne Jasmin Coleby: Flawed Beauty” Trebuchet, April 14, 2021
https://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/cydne-jasmin-coleby-flawed-beauty/
“Interview: Artist Cydne Jasmin Coleby On Bahamian Textiles & The Women In Her Life”, Something Curated, April 8, 2021
https://somethingcurated.com/2021/04/08/interview-artist-cydne-jasmin-coleby-on-bahamian-textiles-the-women-in-her-life/
Folasade Ologundudu, “Virtual Studio Visit with Cydne Jasmin Coleby and Folasade Ologundudu”, Art World Escape, September 30, 2020.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFxm_qrjVVD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Alesha Cadet, “Local creative wow art loves in Paris and London”, The Tribune, September 11, 2020, 8-9.
Nahal Amouzadeh, “Artists of Instagram: Meet Collage Artist Cydne Jasmin Coleby”, All Arts, September 3, 2020.
https://allarts.org/2020/09/artists-of-instagram-meet-collage-artist-cydne-jasmin-coleby/
Guest Artist, Guardian Talk Radio 96.9, “Blank Canvas”, July 1, 2020
https://nagb.org.bs/mixedmediablog/2020/7/26/blank-canvas-july-1st-2020-featuring-angelika-wallace-whitfield-and-cydne-coleby?rq=blank%20canvas%202020
Unit London, “In Conversation with Cydne Jasmin Coleby”, Unit London: News, June 24, 2020.
https://unitlondon.com/blog-in-conversation-cydne-coleby-drawn-together/
Guest Artist, Guardian Talk Radio 96.9, “Blank Canvas”, February , 2020.
https://nagb.org.bs/mixedmediablog/2020/3/23/blank-canvas-february-26th-2020?rq=blank%20canvas%202020
Featured Artist, NAGB Bahamas, National Exhibition 9 (NE9) Vignette, March 28, 2019
https://vimeo.com/327171845
Guest Artist, Guardian Talk Radio 96.9, “Blank Canvas”, February 13, 2019
https://nagb.org.bs/mixedmediablog/2019/2/14/blank-canvas-february-13th-2019-cydne-coleby-and-letitia-pratt
Guest Artist, Guardian Talk Radio 96.9, “Blank Canvas”, February 5, 2014
http://guardiantalkradio.com/2014/02/05/blank-canvas-5-february-2014/
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Syracuse Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Schulting Art Collection, Netherlands
Arthur Lewis, Los Angeles, CA
Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection, New York, NY
Carla Shen, New York, NY
The Coulson-Vogues Collection, Nassau, Bahamas
Ellen-Blair Chube, Chicago, IL
John Freidman, New York, NY
Suzanne McFayden Smith, New York, NY
Maria Brito New York, NY
Dawn Davies Art Collection Nassau, Bahamas
The D’Aguilar Art Foundation Ary Collection Nassau, Bahamas