Collection

New Acquisitions

A selection of artworks recently acquired by NGCI for the National Collection...
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Intuitive Art and Early Pioneers

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...
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Caymanian Modernism

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...
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Realism

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...
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Contemporary Art

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...
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Traditional and Contemporary Craft

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...
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