Operating a gallery from the Caribbean isn’t easy. Building an international market from a geographically remote position comes with its challenges, while limited infrastructure and the complexities of shipping and customs add another layer of difficulty.
But there is a strong argument that being based in the Caribbean offers something a gallery in London or New York might lack: proximity to the artists, communities, histories and cultural conversations that inform the work.
At FUZE Caribbean Art Fair in The Bahamas, now in its fourth edition, more than 20 galleries, museums and cultural institutions from over 10 Caribbean nations are represented. Here are five discoveries from the fair.
Savannah Baker
Savannah Baker’s photographic practice is deeply connected to Jamaica, where she has spent a significant part of her life exploring its people, subcultures, history and visual language.
Her ongoing body of work, search mi heart, draws on childhood memories of Portland, Jamaica, using photography and fashion to explore identity, community and resilience, alongside subjects that are often misunderstood or overlooked, including transgender identity and sickle cell awareness.
In Muma (2024), she celebrates the resilience of Jamaican mothers and their ability to balance work and family life with strength and grace.
On view with ABIRAC Contemporary Foundation
Emily Alice Mitchell
Drawing on photographs, objects and words passed down through her family, Emily Alice Mitchell holds love and grief together, tracing family memory, ancestral presence and the Atlantic’s role in diasporic identity.
In Maracas Beach Prayer (2026), two photographs of the same beach in Trinidad, taken 30 years apart by the artist and her grandmother, are joined by a line from her grandmother’s birthday card, written during illness and read again years later as an instruction for living with it:
“Even when I feel really sick I can think of you and smile.”
On view with D?pART
Delton Barrett
Delton Barrett is a Bahamian-Jamaican photographer best known for his surrealist portraits exploring 21st-century island life, which intentionally “freeze” his subjects in the frame.
In Sons of Men (2026), friends gather on the street for New Year’s, the brake lights of a nearby car casting a red glow over the scene.
The work captures the urban reality of The Bahamas, so rarely visible in external representations of the islands, which tend to focus on nature and beaches.
Like many of Barrett’s works, the scene is staged and photographed in real life, but its components are assembled in layers. Epoxy resin gives the main surface a glossy finish, contrasting with cut-out lustre photo prints of figures layered on top.
The work captures the spontaneous, often overlooked moments through which men build friendship and community.
On view with TERN and in FUZE’s curated section, Mediums
Tyesha Tynes
Referencing a period of childhood when identity and belonging begin to emerge, Bahamian artist Tyesha Tynes presents an installation of six school-uniform sculptures.
Devoid of bodies, they evoke the presence of their wearers while simultaneously foregrounding their absence.
Exquisitely rendered in clay and painted in a variety of patterns and colours, each sculpture contains subtle details while resisting association with a singular identity, age or personal narrative.
On view in FUZE’s Solo Projects section
Eddion Whyms
In his paintings, Eddion Whyms draws on spirituality, symbolism, memory and the unseen forces that shape our lives.
Bringing together influences ranging from his Bahamian heritage to Renaissance masters and Abstract Expressionism, Whyms reflects on masculinity and vulnerability, questioning the expectations and beliefs inherited from family and society.
In Instruments from the Stars (2026), the figure feels both ancient and futuristic. Through contrasts between darkness and light, stillness and movement, and the earthly and celestial realms, Whyms explores the vastness and fragility of love.
On view with Armova Curatorial
Words by Sophie Campos
FUZE Caribbean Art Fair, October 21ST – 25TH 2026 @fuzeartfair
