ABOUT
A multi-media artist, Tessa Whitehead’s work explores her internal experience in conversation with the tropical landscape. Her paintings, drawings and sculptures combine and contrast elements of the Bahamian landscape with surreal figures and familial portraits. The result is an autobiographical perspective of femininity and womanhood.
Whitehead (born 1985, The Bahamas) works out of studio NINE in Nassau. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2007) and her MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (2009). Recent exhibitions include Carry (2024) a solo show at Tern Gallery; Same Same (2022) at Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK; ShowOFF (2020) at the Cookelatham Gallery in London, UK; The Blue (2020) at the Brighton Storeroom in Barbados; There are always two deaths… (2019), a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas; Ubersee (2017) at the Halle 14, Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany; and Nassau Calling (2015) – a collaboration with Heino Schmid at HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (2015).