Blue Curry

Blue Curry (b. Nassau, Bahamas, 1974) is an artist living and working in London, UK, who works primarily in sculptural assemblage and installation art.[1]

Untitled artwork by artist Blue Curry using a customised cement mixer filled with sun cream for the sixth Liverpool Biennial

Education and career

Curry is a graduate of the MFA Fine Art program at Goldsmiths College, London, where his final show was listed as one of the ten best in the country by the former editor of Art Review.[2] He was selected for inclusion in the Catlin Guide to the 40 important emerging artists in the UK in 2010[3] and listed as one of The Independent's "Future Art Stars".[4] He was profiled in a BBC documentary Goldsmiths: But is it Art? which charted his progress through art college and his experiences on the London contemporary art scene.[5] Adrian Searle, chief art critic of The Guardian said that Curry's "swanky electric-blue cement mixer" installation filled with coconut sun cream might be a place for him to stick his head to soothe away his doubts about the 2010 Liverpool Bienniall.[6] In one of his earliest works Curry transported almost a ton of sand to Germany for exhibition and then returned it to the beach it came from in the Bahamas for the group show "Funky Nassau" at the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Germany. He has also shown work at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C. and the Musée International des Arts Modestes, France. He has work in the collections of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, the Principal Art Group and many private collections. He has been a member of the Popop collective of artists since 2000.

Exhibitions

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  • 2013 | Duo show with Ingo Gerken, LoBe, Berlin.
  • 2013 | 40 years of Bahamian Art, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2013 | Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T., London.
  • 2013 | The West 10th Window, Time Equities Art in Buildings Program, New York. (solo)
  • 2013 | Misuse: Creating Alternatives, Cass Gallery, London.
  • 2013 | Legacy: Five Schemes, First Variation, KARST Projects, High Cross House, Devon.
  • 2012 | Zu Hause/At Home, LoBe, Berlin.
  • 2012 | Confined, NEST, The Hague, the Netherlands.
  • 2012 | Friday Late: Flying High, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
  • 2012 | Earth Works, P.P.O.W, New York.
  • 2012 | The Global Caribbean, Fondation Clément, Martinique.
  • 2012 | Year One, Toomer Labzda, New York.
  • 2012 | New Works, AF Projects, London. (solo)
  • 2012 | Tryouts, Down Stairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire.
  • 2012 | Into the Mix, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky.
  • 2012 | Mad March Hares, Vegas Gallery, London.
  • 2012 | Powerless Structures, Schwartz Gallery, London.
  • 2011 | Stranger than Paradise, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany. (solo)
  • 2011 | Solo Presentation, Toomer Labzda, New York. (solo)
  • 2011 | Emergency5, Aspex, Portsmouth.
  • 2011 | About Change in the Caribbean and Latin America, The World Bank, Washington DC.
  • 2011 | Wrestling with the Image, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC.
  • 2011 | Terms of Decision, Visual Arts Platform, Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
  • 2011 | Caribes Globales, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Puerto Rico.
  • 2011 | Trove, Deptford X, London. (solo)
  • 2011 | Modern Frustrations, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London.
  • 2011 | Vessel, Stonehouse, Plymouth.
  • 2011 | Assembly, Bearspace, London.
  • 2011 | Dragging Anchor, Low&High, Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Folkestone. (solo)
  • 2011 | So Here We Are, Kunstverein Speyer, Germany.
  • 2011 | Duo Exhibition, Nextex, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • 2010 | City States, 6th Liverpool Biennial, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool.
  • 2010 | 1st Triennial of Caribbean Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic.
  • 2010 | Anticipation, Selfridges Ultralounge, London.
  • 2010 | NE5: Fifth National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2010 | Nowhere in Peculiar, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London.
  • 2010 | Stardust Boogie Woogie, Monica Bobinska Gallery, London.
  • 2010 | Global Caraïbes, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France.
  • 2010 | The Assistant, Bearspace, London.
  • 2009 | The Global Caribbean, Art Basel Miami Beach.
  • 2009 | Rockstone and Bootheel, Real Art Ways, Connecticut.
  • 2009 | SoShow!, ShopAt34, London.
  • 2009 | I Know a Friend That Knows a Friend, Het Poortgebouw, Rotterdam.
  • 2009 | Hack Gold, (Space) Project Space, London.
  • 2009 | Group Grope, Area 10, London.
  • 2009 | R.I.P, Peacock Projects, London.
  • 2009 | Collections Within Collections, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2008 | 4th National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2008 | Carifesta, Caribbean Festival of the Arts, Georgetown, Guyana.
  • 2008 | Setups Situations Solutions, Popopstudios, Bahamas.
  • 2007 | Into Position, Bauernmarkt 9, Vienna.
  • 2007 | Work!, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami.[7]
  • 2007 | The Next Level Guerilla Show, Photographers' Gallery, London.
  • 2007 | Domesticalia: The Politics of Repression’, Standpoint Gallery, London.
  • 2007 | Bahamian Art: Pre-Columbian to the Present, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2006 | Funky Nassau: Recovering an Identity, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Germany & National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2006 | Exit, Popopstudios, Bahamas.
  • 2006 | 3rd National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2006 | Debris, (with Heino Schmid) Nassau, Bahamas.
  • 2005 | Alumni Art Exhibition, Tang Gallery, Skidmore College, New York.
  • 2005 | Interim, The Muse Gallery, London.
  • 2005 | National Collection Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2005 | Love, Popopstudios, Bahamas.
  • 2004 | 2nd National Exhibition, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
  • 2004 | Survey of Contemporary Bahamian Art, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.

Bibliography

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2017-07-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Catriona's Top Graduates of 2009". Catriona Warren. murmurART. October 5, 2009"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2010-04-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "The Catlin Guide 2010: New Artists in the UK". Justin Hammond (ed.) 2010.
  4. Jennifer Fisher. "Celebrating Future Art Stars." The Independent. January 12, 2010.
  5. Goldsmiths: But is it Art? Dragonfly Productions for BBC 4. Part One aired April 12, 2010. Part Two aired January 19, 2010.
  6. Adrian Searle. "Back in Business at the Liverpool Biennial". The Guardian. September 20, 2010.
  7. Carlos Suarez De Jesus (August 23, 2007) "Pop! Go the Easels", Miami New Times. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
  • Artist's website
  • This is Tomorrow Profile: Blue Curry
  • Caribbean Artists A-Z | Petrine Archer Straw
  • Goldsmiths Degree Show 2009
  • Conceptual Materialism: Installation Art and the Dismantling of Caribbean Historicism. Castellano, Carlos Garrido.Third Text Vol. 28, Iss. 2,  (March 2014): 149-162. DOI:10.1080/09528822.2014.896493 ProQuest 1733506142
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  • "Unsettled Landscapes". Hagel, Caia.Border Crossings; Winnipeg Vol. 33, Iss. 4,  (Dec 2014-Feb 2015): 108-109. ProQuest 1642150119
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