Collection

A selection of artworks recently acquired by NGCI for the National Collection...

The history of formal visual art in the Cayman Islands is relatively young in comparison to the country’s 500-year recorded past. Given our geographical location, relatively late permanent settlement...

By the 1990s, a new generation of Caymanian artists were coming to the forefront, many returning home from the United States with degrees in graphic design, fine art, and...

The rapid growth of the tourism and financial sectors resulted in substantial immigration, which began to transform the social and cultural profile of the Cayman Islands. By the early...

With rapid socio-economic advances transforming the Cayman Islands from a small maritime society to a financial mecca in less than 50 years, there have been significant repercussions within our...

While the history of the formal visual arts in the Cayman Islands stretches back only several decades, the Islands have enjoyed a rich heritage of silver thatch craft and...