Cydne Jasmine Coleby
Cydne Jasmine Coleby (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary Bahamian interdisciplinary artist. Her practice explores personal and ancestral relationships to conditioning and trauma, often through personal and family photographic archives. Drawing on the aesthetics of Junkanoo, she creates texturally dense works that reframe lived experiences in the tropics against fabricated notions of paradise, while probing themes of grief, healing, and identity.
Coleby studied fine art at the University of The Bahamas before a successful career in graphic design, later recommitting to her art practice in 2018. Since then, she has participated in the Wassaic Project and Silver Art Project residencies and exhibited internationally across Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean. Her work is held in collections worldwide, including the Syracuse University Art Museum (NY) and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (China). She is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Coleby studied fine art at the University of The Bahamas before a successful career in graphic design, later recommitting to her art practice in 2018. Since then, she has participated in the Wassaic Project and Silver Art Project residencies and exhibited internationally across Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean. Her work is held in collections worldwide, including the Syracuse University Art Museum (NY) and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (China). She is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
