Anina Major

Anina Major is a visual artist from The Bahamas. Her decision to establish a home contrary to the location in which she was born and raised motivates her to investigate the relationship between self and place as a site of negotiation. By utilizing the vernacular of craft to reclaim experiences and relocate displaced objects, her practice exists at the intersection of nostalgia, and identity.
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She holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) Award, and the EKWC, Centre-of-excellence for ceramics international artist-in-residency.

Her work has been exhibited in The Bahamas, across the United States, and Europe and featured in permanent collections that include the National Gallery of The Bahamas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Selected Exhibitions

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Exhibitions

2024  “Design Miami” – The Future Perfect, Miami, FL

2024  “All Us Come Across Water” – Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY

2023  “I Land Therefore I Am” – Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

2023  “Old Week Home” – TERN Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas

2022  Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022  “Garden Hills: Reflections in Memory Yard” – Wavehill Public Garden & Culture Center, Bronx, NY

2021  “Everywhere and Here” – Artspace New Haven, New Haven, CT

2020  “Among Other Things…” – Landmark College, Putney, VT

2020  “No Vacancy in Paradise” – Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2019  “Rhythm of Hybrid Interactions” – Gallery 451, MCLA, North Adams, MA

2019  “Sand Swallows Beneath My Feet” – Foster Art Gallery of Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA

Education

2017  MFA in Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2003  BS in Graphic Design, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Awards and Residencies

2023  Joan Mitchell Fellow, USA.

2023  EKWC, Centre-of-excellence for ceramics, Oisterwijk, NL

2021  Socrates Sculpture Park, Artist-in-Residence, Queens, NY

2020  Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, NY

2019  Fine Arts Center Fellow, Provincetown, MA

2018  36 Chase & Barns Artists and Art Historians Residency

2017  Flower City Arts Center, Artists-in-Residence

2017  MassMOCA Studio Artists in Residence

2017  St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Award Watershed

2017  Summer Residency Zenobia Award

2017  Anderson Ranch Residential Summer Workshop Scholarship