Dede Brown - Floating Head #10 - My body is holding salt water from the sea - 2024 - Detai

Floating Head #10 "My Body is holding salt water from the sea", detail, 2024

About

BIO

Danielle (Dede) Brown
(b.1984) Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas

Dede is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture and installation.

Dede was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama and grew up in Nassau, New Providence. She studied at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia and has a BFA in Interior Design, with a minor in Photography. For the past fourteen years she has practiced as a freelance artist, designer and photographer. She has completed three permanent sculptures, two in the Nassau Airport and one at Baha Mar Resorts. She has had three solo exhibitions, participated in several group exhibitions in The Bahamas, The USA, France, as well as two international residencies abroad.

Through social experiences and observation, she investigates themes surrounding her role and the roles of others, including their complex histories and identities in society, in The Bahamas and more broadly, throughout The Caribbean. She attempts to produce works that delve into the complexities of femininity and personal identity, while exploring the multilayers of human nature and the transformative, healing power of the artistic process.

Inspiration comes from her many facets of interest and curiosity including colour trends, graphic design, film, music, fashion, pop and drag culture, editorial and portrait photography, as well as the surrounding, seaside environment of her home in Eleuthera. This plethora of stimuli inclines her to produce works that are visually bold, detailed and stylized.

Dede currently resides in Spanish Wells, Eleuthera, where she works from a home-based studio.

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EDUCATION

BFA in Interior Design, Minor in Photography, SCAD - The Savannah College of Art & Design (2006)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Artist & Photographer (2010 - Present)

Interior Designer, Alexiou & Associates Architects, Nassau, Bahamas (2007 - 2010)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

UPCOMING

Solo Exhibition - The Current: Baha Mar Gallery & Art Center, Nassau, Bahamas, Dec 20

2023

Nocturne - Solo Exhibition - CAB Gallery & Studio, Nassau, Bahamas, Nov 11 - 30

2022

Bring Me A Dream - Solo Exhibition - CAB Gallery & Studio, Nassau, Bahamas, Jan 28 - Feb 9

2021

Inner Voices - First Virtual Solo Exhibition - Black Pony Gallery hosted by Artsy.net

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

UPCOMING

Her Story - with artists Kendra Frorup, Angelika Wallace-Whitfield, Samantha Treco & Khia Poitier, CAB Gallery & Studio, Nassau, Bahamas, Nov 16 - 17

2024

Apollo's Decathalon - Group Exhibition - Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art, Loire Valley, Montsoreau, France, June 14 - August 11

2023

Matrix - Printmaking Exhibition - The Current: ECCHO, Baha Mar Resorts, Nassau, Bahamas, Sept 8 - Oct 8

Unsovereign Elements - Geological Poetics and Epistemological Convergences in Caribbean Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Mar 30 - May 10

2022

Beguile - Duo Exhibition with Artist Kachelle Knowles - The Current: ECCHO, Baha Mar Resorts, Nassau, Bahamas, Oct 20

The National Exhibition (NE10) MERCY - The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, Oct 6 - Jan 1

Defying Tropicality - 11 Strong Group Exhibition - The Current Gallery & Art Center, Baha Mar Resorts, Nassau, Bahamas, Mar 4 - 25

2021

Collecting Our Voices in the Caribbean Diaspora (COVID) - Virtual Exhibition - Museum Association of the Caribbean (MAC), April - Nov

2020

Small Works - Virtual Exhibition - Contemporary Art Bahamas

2019

Refuge - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

2018

Fairwind Exhibition - Baha Mar, Nassau Bahamas

2017

Re:Encounter- Double Dutch Exhibition with Artist Joiri Minaya - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

The Art of Losing - The D'Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, Bahamas

2016

The National Exhibition (NE8) - The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
No Filter- John Watling’s Distillery - Nassau, Bahamas
Triple Double - Popopstudios ICVA Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas

2015
Shift - Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
The National Exhibition (NE7): ‘Antillean An Ecology’ - The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

2013
Tickle Me Pink - The Central Bank of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, Mar 2013
The National Exhibition (NE6): ‘Kingdom Come’ - The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas,
Fiber- Popopstudios ICVA Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas

2011
Bahama Mama - Public Treasury Building, Nassau, Bahamas,
Material Response - Colchester & Ipswich Museum Service, England, UK
Peep Show - Popopstudios ICVA Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas

2010
National Exhibition (NE5) - The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, June 2010
Dichotomy - Central Bank of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
Figure Ground - Popopstudios ICVA Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas

2009
Untitled - Central Bank of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
SCAD Alumni Art Show - Popopstudios ICVA Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas

ART FAIRS

2024
FUZE – 2nd Caribbean Art Fair - Black Pony Gallery, Booth F12, Hosted by Baha Mar Resorts, Nassau, Bahamas, Oct 23 - 27

2023

FUZE - First Caribbean Art Fair - Black Pony Gallery Booth, Hosted by Baha Mar Resorts, Nassau, Bahamas, Oct 26 - 29

Atlantic World Art Fair - Virtual Exhibition - Black Pony Gallery via Artsy, June 1 - 15

2022

Atlantic World Art Fair - Virtual Booth - Black Pony Gallery hosted by Artsy, May

2021

Atlantic World Art Fair - Virtual Booth - Black Pony Gallery hosted by Artsy, June 1 - 21

CURATORIAL WORK

Community + Collaboration - The Towne Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas Apr 2016
Shift - Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas Apr 2015
Submerged - The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, Bahamas Apr 2014

MURALS + PERMANENT SCULPTURES

Full Fathom Five, NAGB Mural Program - Gregory Town, North Eleuthera, Bahamas - April 2021

Ibis Bird Sculpture - Waterside Place, Baha Mar Resorts, Cable Beach Nassau, Bahamas - November 2019

The Way, Fish Sculpture - Arrivals Terminal - LPIA Nassau Airport, Nassau, Bahamas, September 2018

World Oceans Day, Mural - West Hill Street, Downtown Nassau - June 2017

Taking Flight, Flamingo Sculpture - Permanent Installation, Domestic & Int. Departure Terminal - LPIA Nassau Airport, Nassau, Bahamas, Mar - Sept 2013

ART COLLECTIVES + RESIDENCIES

UPCOMING – Artist in Residence at The Current: ECCHO, Baha Mar Resorts, Nassau, Bahamas, Nov 20 – Dec 20

Artist Sabbatical - Sion, Switzerland, June - September 2016
Material Response Exchange Program, Stories of the World - England, UK June - Sept 2011

Resident Artist - Popopstudios ICVA, Nassau, Bahamas - 2008 - 2015

PUBLICATIONS + PRESS

Artist in the Spotlight, Cacique International, 2019

Bahamian Art & Culture shares ‘The Flamingo Project 2013 by Dede Brown’, ARC Magazine, 2013

SELECT COLLECTIONS

The Dawn Davies Art Collection, Nassau Bahamas

The D'Aguilar Art Foundation Art Collection, Nassau, Bahamas

The Central Bank of The Bahamas Collection, Nassau, Bahamas

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS