The Armory Show
Jagoda Bednarsky + Anina MajorNew York
September 8 – 10, 2023
BORN
1981, Nassau, Bahamas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Old Week Home, Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
I LAND, THEREFORE I AM, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, USA
2022
Inheritance, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Garden Hills: Reflections in Memory Yard, Wavehill Public Garden & Culture Center, Bronx, NY
2020
No Vacancy in Paradise, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
Among Other Things…, Landmark College, Putney, VT, USA
2019
Rhythm of Hybrid Interactions, Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA, USA
Sand Swallows Beneath My Feet, Foster Art Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2023
Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Transatlantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art, curated by caryl* ivrisse crochemar &
[creative renegades society], 1-54 presented at Christie’s, London, UK
2023
On the Grounds 2023, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY, USA
Old Week Home, Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
Solo Exhibition, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, USA
2022
Inheritance, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Garden Hills: Reflections in Memory Yard, Wavehill Public Garden & Culture Center, Bronx, NY, USA
2020
Among Other Things…, Landmark College, Putney, VT, USA
No Vacancy in Paradise, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2019
Rhythm of Hybrid Interactions, Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA, USA
Sand Swallows Beneath My Feet, Foster Art Gallery of Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Group Exhibition, Maximillian Williams, London, UK, USA (Upcoming)
Group Exhibition ArtsWestchester, Rochester, NY, USA (Upcoming)
Sparkling Islands, Another Postcard of the Caribbean, High Line Nine Galleries, New York, NY, USA
Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
Ceramics in the Expanded Field, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
2022
Celebration, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Making History: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
Fragile Earth, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA
The New England Triennial 2022, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA
Lichtung, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
The Universe Within, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2021
Ceramic in the Expanded Field, MassMOCA, North Adams, MA, USA
The Socrates Annual 2021, Long Island City, NY, USA
Coil Pot Show, Greenwich Pottery, New York, NY, USA
Everywhere and Here, Artspace New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA
Above & Below, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Collide & Scope, Knowhere Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, USA
Chorus of Marks & Artifacts, LaiSun Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Possibility Made Real: Drawing & Clay, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX, USA
Floating Rib, National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Asterisks in the Grand Narrative of History, The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA, USA
2020
Inherited Values, Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
Forms Fired, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Currency, BAIT15, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Nature/Nurture, Ferrin Contemporaries, North Adams, MA, USA
The 2020 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
(im)materiality, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2019
Refuge, National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Love in the Time of Hysteria, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Creative Artifacts, Providence Children Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Striking Gold, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
VERIFIED, Loud Cow Art Space, Rochester, NY, USA
2018
NE9: The Fruit and The Seed, National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
The Dark Horse, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Highlights, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
The Ecology of Relationships, Firehouse Gallery, Rochester, NY, USA
Suffer to Remain, curated by Holly Bynoe National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2017
Wonder: RISD Nature Lab 80th Anniversary Exhibition, Providence, RI, USA
New Contemporaries: RISD Class of 2017 Select Works, Providence, RI, USA
Overseas: Cuba and the Bahamas, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
Our America, Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
FLUX: RISD Ceramics Triennial, Providence, RI, USA
2016
National Exhibition 8, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Fort Adams: Drawing Parallels, Listening for Echoes, Newport, RI, USA
Drive-by Projects, Saturday Evening Girls, Boston, MA, USA
Extra Credit: Meditation Room Installation, Providence, RI, USA
2015
Vitrify: RISD Graduate Ceramics Biennial, Providence, RI, USA
2014
NE7 Antillean: an Ecology, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2003 BS, Graphic Design, BS; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
D’Aguilar Arts Foundation
Fuller Craft Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2021
Women Studio Workshop, Studio Residency Grant, Rosendale, NY, USA
2020
Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Membership Program, New York, NY, USA
2019
Provincetown Fine Work Arts Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
2018
36 Chase & Barns Artists and Art Historians Residency, North Adams, MA, USA
2017
Flower City Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, Rochester, NY, USA
Studios at Mass MoCA, Artist in Residence, North Adams, MA, USA
St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Award, Boston, MA, USA
Watershed Summer Residency Zenobia Award, Newcastle, ME, USA
Anderson Ranch Presidential Summer Workshop Scholarship, Snowmass Village, CO, USA
2010
Sculpture and Craft Category of Art of the State: Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, USA
2007
Annual International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Logo, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023
“3 Artists on the Role of the Caribbean in Environmental Art” Ayanna Dozier, Artsy, April, 2023
2022
“Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime”, Marina Reyes Franco, Sept, 2022
“Thinking Through Place: A Conversation with Anina Major” Sculpture Magazine, Sept/Oct 2022
“Pick of the week: Anina Major” Artillery Magazine, 29 Sept, 2022
2021
“At Mass MoCA, ceramic art proves its power” The Boston Globe, 16 Dec, 2021
“Artist Find Sanctuary at Socrates Sculpture Park” Hyperallergic, 5 Nov, 2021
“Above & Below at Shoshana Wayne” Art and Cake LA, Aug 2021
“At LaiSun Keane, Two Artists Investigate Identity And Belonging” WBUR News, 1 June, 2021
2020
“Anina Major Finds ‘No Vacancy in Paradise’” The Provincetown Independent, 6 February, 2020
2019
‘Love in the Time of Hysteria’ Document Journal, 4 December, 2019
2018
“A Body of My Own” The Nassau Guardian, 7 July 2018
“Troubling Narratives” The Nassau Guardian, 25 May 2018
“My mouth is a heartbreak” The Nassau Guardian, 28 April 2018
“Locked in our bodies, a resurrection of voices” 24 March 2018
2017
Emergency Index – an annual document of performance practice, Vol. 6
“Heavy Crown To Bear” The Nassau Guardian, January 7, 2017
2016
Speaking Through Art, Rhode Island School of Design Student Stories
Folding Time in Space by Sofia Ortiz for Volume-1.org
Smith & Benjamin’s Bahamas Arts + Culture eMagazine, Issue 290
2014
NE7 asks the experts: “Antillean: an Ecology”, The Bahamas Weekly, December 11, 2014
2013
“My Flamboyant Teacups and Bowls, Ceramic Exhibition” (ACE 2013), The Bahamas Weekly, October 23, 2013
2012
The Bahamian American Cultural Society, Inc. (BACS), The Bahamas Weekly, November 14, 2012
2012
ArtOvation with TaDa Interview, The Bahamas Weekly, September 28, 2012
2011
Bahama Mama’ inaugural art exhibition at Public Treasury, The Bahamas Weekly, September 14, 2011
2010
Clay Times; January/February 2010 The Gallery
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Mutual Encounters, Gelman Gallery of RISD, Providence, RI, USA
For the 2024 edition of the Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present works by Alyssa Klauer, Andrej Dúbravský, Anina Major, Autumn Wallace, + Julia Garcia. The fair runs April 4 - 7, with a VIP First Look and Foundation Preview Thursday, April 4, and public days Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, from 11 am - 7 pm and Sunday, April 7, from 11 am - 5 pm. The gallery's booth is #B12, and the fair will take place at Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201.
For the Collaborations sector of Art Cologne 2023, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present new works by Anina Major and Malaika Temba. The fair runs November 16 through 19 and will take place at Koelnmesse, Halle 11, Köln, Germany.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Lichtung, a group exhibition featuring Melissa Brown, Angelina Gualdoni, Adam Helms, Hipkiss, Heidi Howard, Kaylie Kaitschuck, Anina Major, Zoe McGuire, Hélène Padoux, Dan Schein, James Everett Stanley, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Lumin Wakoa, Autumn Wallace, and Erin Woodbrey. On view through July 3, Lichtung will open with a reception on Friday, April 1, from 4 - 7 pm at Gaa Gallery, 494 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present, (im)materiality, a group exhibition featuring Wilder Alison, Anina Major, Judy Pfaff, Sarah Trigg, and Erin Woodbrey. (im)materiality opens August 21 and will run through November 16, 2020.
