CV

Born    1976. Nassau, The Bahamas   

EDUCATION

2007     MFA Glass (with honors).  Rhode Island School of Design- providence RI

2004      BFASculpture (with honors). School of Design at Alfred University – Alfred NY

2002      Metalsmithing . Savannah College of Art and Design- Savannah GA

2000      Associates of Fine Arts, Painting. College of the Bahamas, Nassau Bahamas

1995      Metallurgy. The Industrial Training College, Nassau Bahamas

INSTALLATIONS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015      Identities – Pierogi 2000 – Brooklyn, NY

2014      Pierogi 20th anniversary group show- Brooklyn ,NY

2007      RISD Museum Exhibition- Providence, RI

2006      RISD Glass triennial - Woods Gerry Gallery, providence RI,

2005      Aftershock – union street installation, Providence RI

2004     The end of matter is where man begins- Binns Merrill pavilion, Alfred NY,   

2003      Materializing Perception- The Sculpture Annex, Alfred NY,

2001     Stains- The Pro Gallery, The College of The Bahamas,

2000     Visual Dialogue- traveling exhibition, Nassau Bahamas,

STUDIO PROJECTS

2017    “I am” Desert X, Palm springs, Ca

2015     “How to Make Someone Invisible,” Fergus McCaffery Gallery, St Barthelemy
             “Seeing Is Forgetting The Thing That You Saw,” Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2013      ”Polar Eclipse” Bahamas Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2012      “Tavares Strachan: Here and Now,” Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Isreal

2011      “Tavares Strachan: Seen/ Unseen,” Undisclosed Location, New York, NY
               “Sometimes Lies are Prettier,” Rossi & Rossi, London, England

2010       “Other Than Beauty,” Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY
               “The Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such A Bad Idea If I Never Went Home," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
               “The Orthostatic Tolerance: Launching into an Infinite Distance,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

2009       “The Orthostatic Tolerance: You Can Do Whatever You Like,” ICA, Philadelphia, PA

2008        “Inner and Outer Space,” Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
                "Tavares Strachan", Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
                “A Hundred Years,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006        "Tavares Strachan", Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
                 "Tavares Strachan" , Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
                “Where We Are Is Always Miles Away,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
                 “The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want,”Albury Sayle Primary School, Nassau, Bahamas

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://blog.uprising-art.com/en/55th-venice-biennale-exclusive-interview-christophe-thompson-bahamian-pavilion-2/

http://bombmagazine.org/article/7266/faces-of-the-biennale

ARTIST'S WRITINGS

Encyclopedia of Invisibility, Isolated Labs Press, New York, NY, 2017

The Devil’s Dictionary, Grand Arts Press, Kanas City, MO, 2015

Pastarsius Volume 1, Henry Christophe, Blurb Press, New York, NY, 2014

RESEARCH

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Brown University,  Providence, RI 

Tulane University historical department, New Orleans, LA

Sterling Library ,Yale University, New Haven, CT

The National Archives of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

The Monastery of The Capuchin, Church of San Donnino, Pisa, Italy. 

The Bahamas Humane society, Nassau, Bahamas

Museo de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba

The Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Scholes Library, Alfred, NY

Ministry of Culture, Nassau, Bahamas

B.E.R.C., Stanyard Cay, Bahamas