Exhibitions - National Gallery of the Cayman Islands

Current Exhibitions

TimeBack

Until 20 Jun

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Evolutions

Continuity & Change in Caymanian Art

Until 1 Nov

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Cayman on Camera

Our Story in Photographs

Satellite exhibition at Owen Roberts International Airport (ORIA)

Until 30 Jun

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Days Gone By

Photographs from the Cayman Islands National Archive

Satellite Exhibition at Cayman Brac Beach Resort

Until 30 May

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Home & Hearth

Architectural Scenes from the National Collection

Satellite Exhibition at Little Cayman Museum

Until 29 May

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Upcoming Exhibition

From the Mind’s Eye

Opening 2 Apr

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Past Exhibitions

4-6 Nov Mar 2024

Jawara Alleyne

Island Underground

20-24 Jul Oct 2024

Bendel Hydes – Circumnavigating the Globe

From the collection of Alan and Karen Turner

22-11 Sep Oct 2022

The Ties That Bind

A Journey Through the National Collection

14-5 Mar Jul 2024

Thatch Roofs & Ironwood Posts

The Art & Artistry of the Caymanian Home

7-20 Oct Feb 2023

81° West

Cartographic Explorations in Contemporary Caymanian Art

31-29 May Sep 2023

3rd Cayman Islands Biennial

Conversations with the Past—In the Present Tense

24-18 Feb May 2023

Al Ebanks

33-Remnants of the Artist

21-17 Oct Feb 2022

Pop & the Popular

10-13 Jun Oct 2022

Nasaria Suckoo Chollette

All The Coals We Left in The Fire

20-15 Jul Sep 2020

Saltwater in their Veins

A National Gallery Permanent Collection Exhibition

28-26 Jan May 2022

The People’s Collection

A 25 Year Cultural Legacy

3-20 Sep Jan 2021

Terra Botanica

Depictions of nature from the National Collection

23-27 Apr Aug 2021

Cayman Islands Biennial II – Reimagined Future(s)

4-31 Dec Mar 2020

Alchemy

Horacio Esteban

31-24 Aug Nov 2020

Interior & Interiority

20-21 Feb Aug 2020

Island of Women

Life at Home During Our Maritime Years

10-30 Oct Jan 2019

Bendel Hydes – A Retrospective

15-3 Jun Oct 2019

Tropical Visions

Landscape Painting from the National Collection

8-6 Feb Jun 2019

Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial

10-31 Dec Jan 2018

The Photographer is Present: Select photographs from the collection of Ella Latter

25-28 Aug Nov 2018

Art of Fashion

Fashion inspired by the National Collection

10-27 Mar Apr 2018

From Whence We Came

Photographs by D. Randall Blythe

19-1 Jan Mar 2018

Through Ivan’s Eye

Photographs by Gretchen Allen and Hurricane Ivan

3-11 Oct Jan 2017

REVIVE

Contemporary Caymanian Craft

30-23 Jun Sep 2017

Mediating Self

Identity and the Body

20-22 Jan Jun 2017

Upon The Seas

An Exhibition from the Maritime Series

24-12 Sep Jan 2016

Speak to Me

Understanding the Language of Art

1-16 Jul Sep 2016

A Legacy of Light

Early watercolours from two National Collections

8-25 Apr Jun 2016

Native Sons – Twenty Years On

15-19 Jan Mar 2016

EN MAS’

Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean

10-5 Sep Nov 2015

tIDal Shift

Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art

13-3 Jul Sep 2015

All Access

A journey through the National Collection

23-3 Apr Jul 2015

Plastic in Paradise

Scenes of Real Life Fictions by Heidi Bassett Blair

5-17 Feb Apr 2015

Luminescent Forms

Art Under the Microscope

3-29 Dec Jan 2014

David Bridgeman – The Road Not Taken

6-27 Oct Nov 2014

Ceramic Art

From the Fifteenth Century to the Contemporary

6-27 Sep 2014

Ivan Remembered

Commemorating the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Ivan

22-2 May Sep 2014

Metamorphoses

21-15 Mar May 2014

Jamaican Art: 1960s & 1970s

15-13 Nov Mar 2013

Our Story of Art

6-31 Sep Oct 2013

Images of Yesteryear

10-29 May Aug 2013

Art of Assemblage

18-15 Dec Mar 2012

Prayer Canvases

Visionary Works by Gladwyn K. "Miss Lassie" Bush

6 Feb 2012

Works by David Jungquist

From the collection of Susan A Olde, OBE

1-30 Aug Nov 2012

Now & Then

An exhibition of photographs by Courtney Platt

8-5 Jun Oct 2012

Founded Upon the Seas

1-31 Feb May 2012

Circumnavigating the Globe

Works by Bendel Hydes

22-2 Aug Sep 2011

A Day in the Life IV

A live studio artist-in-residence exhibition

19-19 May Aug 2011

The Persistence of Memory

A group exhibition on how memory shapes our character

17-12 Mar May 2011

The Islands Time Forgot

David Douglas Duncan

27-4 Nov Mar 2010

Blue Meridian

Davin Ebanks

3-17 Sep Nov 2010

Janet Walker

A Retrospective

14-25 Jun Aug 2010

A Day in the Life III

A live studio artist-in-residence exhibition

25-26 Feb May 2010

21st Century Cayman

Traditional Caymanian Craft in a Contemporary Context

7-7 Aug Oct 2009

Paradise (re)Visited

Nineteenth century Jamaican Lithographs

11-17 Jun Jul 2009

A Day in the Life II

A live studio artist-in-residence exhibition

25-25 Oct Feb 2008

Seth Chwast

Icons of Cayman

27-11 Jun Aug 2008

Art Space

A New Home for Cayman Art

15-27 Apr May 2008

A Day in the Life I

A live studio artist-in-residence exhibition

5-26 Dec Mar 2007

Screens, Greens and Washing Machines

The life and work of Margaret Barwick

29-30 Sep Nov 2007

Faces & Figures

The Portraits of Joanne Sibley

31-24 May Aug 2007

Cayman: An Ever-Changing Landscape

An exhibition of past and present works from the National Collection

14-15 Apr Jun 2007

The Maze

A site-specific installation by Aston Ebanks

1-26 Feb Mar 2007

Arreckly

Towards a Cultural Identity

13-25 Oct Jan 2006

au courant

An exhibition of avant-garde contemporary international art

4-25 May Aug 2006

‘är-“kIv (“ARCHIVE”)

Paintings by Allison Lasley

12-25 Jan Apr 2006

The Art of Stamps

A unique opportunity to view original artwork used to design stamps of the Cayman Islands

30-4 Sep Jan 2005

Dancing to Art

The artwork of Al Ebanks interpreted by dance

12-25 Aug Oct 2005

Fahive

The 5th group exhibition of Caymanian art by the Native Sons

2-11 Apr May 2005

Watermarks

An exhibition dedicated to the art of watercolour

17-24 Feb Mar 2005

Anchored in Landscapes

David Bridgeman and Chris Mann

10-11 Dec Feb 2004

Emergence

A multi-media interpretation in the wake of Ivan

5-23 Aug Sep 2004

Portrait of an Artist

Self-portraiture

3-31 Jun Jul 2004

Body Talk

A group photography exhibition exploring the symbology of the body

27-28 Mar May 2004

Merging Art, Merging Cultures

Fibre Art

20-17 Jan Apr 2004

Windows to My World

Rabee’ah Dilbert

24-24 Feb Mar 2004

Azure Dreams (A Journey in Colour)

Paintings by Zoë Blount

10-20 Jan Mar 2004

Rousings

Progressive Jamaican Art

11-27 Oct Dec 2003

Soundings

Bendel Hydes

8-3 Sep Oct 2003

Viva Cuba

Tony Crosbie

2-5 Jul Sep 2003

Stories We Tell

An exhibition of works by local photographers and writers

4-28 Jun 2003

Dos Visiones/Two Visions

Patrick Broderick and Roberto Salas

5-26 Feb Apr 2003

Fresh!

An exhibition of new international art

8-27 Jan Feb 2003

Jennifer Newton

A solo exhibition of black and white photography

4-31 Jan 2003

Time People Forgot

A photographic survey of Cayman and its people by Patrick Broderick

16-23 Sep Dec 2002

ConversASIAN

An Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Art

10-7 May Sep 2002

Charles Long

Chronicler of Our Time

25-26 Apr Jun 2002

The Body

Explorations of the human figure by Al Ebanks and Henry Spencer Moore

19-20 Feb Apr 2002

Cuban Master

Adigio Benítez

20-9 Dec Feb 2001

Keith Haring

An exhibition of works on paper by the American Pop artist

19-24 Oct Nov 2001

Serious ‘Bout Mekin’ Fun

Wray Banker

5-24 Apr May 2001

An Awakening in Austria

14-17 Feb Mar 2001

From the Heart

Travelling exhibition that explores the art of quilting

4-3 Dec Feb 2000

Inner Light

A solo exhibition of portrait photography by Joyce Tenneson

12-31 Jan 2000

Wired

Computer art exhibition

10-25 Apr May 1998

Junk Art

Upcycled art by Wally Warren and his workshop

Satellite Exhibitions

18-30 Dec Jun 2024

Cayman on Camera

Our Story in Photographs

7-30 Dec May 2023

Days Gone By

Photographs from the Cayman Islands National Archive

6-29 Dec May 2023

Home & Hearth

Architectural Scenes from the National Collection

18-30 Dec 2023

Highlights from the Collection

A National Gallery Travelling Exhibition

1-20 Feb Oct 2023

Highlights from the Collection

An Ongoing Travelling Exhibition Series

7-22 Aug Sep 2023

In the Future Past

Bryony Dixon

16-1 Aug May 2022

Beloved Isles

Presented at the Owen Roberts International Airport

28-30 Oct May 2021

Beloved Isles

Rotating between the Cayman Brac Beach Resort and the Little Cayman Museum

1-1 Mar Nov 2019

Art at the Airport

Presented by the National Gallery for the reopening of the newly expanded Owen Robert’s International Airport

23-25 Apr Sep 2021

Cayman Islands Biennial II – Little Cayman

20-25 Feb Sep 2021

Seascapes – Cayman Brac

Maritime Art from the National Collection (NGCI Travelling Exhibition – Cayman Brac)

14-20 Feb Apr 2021

Art Under Lockdown – Little Cayman

NGCI Travelling Exhibition – Little Cayman

20-31 Feb Oct 2020

Seascapes

Maritime Art from the National Collection (NGCI Travelling Exhibition – Little Cayman)

27-15 Nov Sep 2019

Art @ The Paseo

Camana Bay

30-15 Sep Feb 2019

Through Ivan’s Eye

NGCI Travelling Exhibition - Cayman Brac

20-28 Oct Jan 2019

Luminescent Forms

NGCI Travelling Exhibition - Little Cayman

10-30 Jun Sep 2019

Now & Then

NGCI Travelling Exhibition – Little Cayman

25-30 Mar Jul 2019

Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial

NGCI Travelling Exhibition – Cayman Brac

18-26 Mar Jun 2019

Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial

NGCI Travelling Exhibition – Little Cayman

11-27 Jun 2012

Ogier Art Award 2012

A Celebration of New Developments in the Cayman Islands Art Scene

27-8 Jun Jul 2011

Ogier Art Award 2011

A Celebration of New Developments in the Cayman Islands Art Scene

15-30 Jun 2010

Ogier Art Award 2010

A Celebration of New Developments in the Cayman Islands Art Scene

6-24 May Aug 2004

Forces of Nature

A group photography exhibition

Online Exhibitions

15-31 Sep Mar 2023

Walkers Art Club

2022-2023 Student Exhibition

16-1 May Aug 2022

Beloved Isles

Digital Exhibition

1-1 Apr Jul 2022

National Children’s Festival of the Arts

Digital Exhibition

21-1 Jan Sep 2021

2020 Vision

A community’s experience of lockdown

15-15 Jun Oct 2020

Art Under Lockdown

A Cayman Islands Online Community Exhibition

Community Exhibitions

29-31 Feb May 2024

The Cauling

Where the Past Comes Forward to Greet You

9-22 Nov Feb 2023

Tangled World

2-2 Oct Nov 2023

Landscapes of Abstraction

21-9 Nov May 2022

Miss Lassie

An Intuitive Spirit

4-12 Jun Aug 2022

John Reno Jackson

A Heron Amongst the Storm

14-26 Apr May 2022

Land and Sea

Picturesque Scenes from the National Collection

25-20 Nov Jan 2021

Yonier Powery

Unstoppable Steps

9-18 Sep Nov 2021

Virginia Foster

Wonders of Clay: Perfectly Imperfect

21-12 Jan Apr 2021

Homegrown

Botanical Portraits by David Hartwell and Bill Ferehawk

7-20 Nov Dec 2020

Marc Laurenson: Consumed

17-1 Feb Oct 2020

Bendel Hydes

National Collection Acquisitions

8-5 Nov Dec 2018

Gordon Solomon – Life on the Colony

4-16 May Aug 2018

Coral Encounters

Photographs from our underwater world

12-31 Apr May 2018

Create Your Story…Water The Root

A new series by Randy Chollette

23-15 Jan Mar 2018

Solaris

Digital Solar Imaging in the Cayman Islands

7-30 Oct Dec 2017

Horacio Esteban

Solo Exhibition

20-20 Jan Apr 2017

Saltwater in their Veins

An Exhibition from the Maritime Series

7-23 Mar Aug 2013

Cayman Panorama

Things That Exist Only in My Fading Memory

Education Exhibitions

13-31 Aug Dec 2024

Walkers Art Club

2023-2024 Online Student Exhibition

7-1 Mar Nov 2024

Art Haven 2023/2024

An exhibition showcasing the National Gallery’s Art Haven outreach programme, featuring works by participants from HMP Northward and HMP Fairbanks

15-23 Jun Aug 2024

Walkers Art Club 2023-2024

A showcase of student artwork

15-31 Sep Mar 2023

Walkers Art Club

2022-2023 Student Exhibition

21-31 Dec Mar 2022

Walkers Art Club

2021-2022 Student Exhibition

31-31 Aug Jan 2021

Walkers Art Club 2020-2021 Student Exhibition

2020-2021 Student Exhibition

1-1 Apr Aug 2021

Art Haven 2020/2021

26-31 Oct Jan 2020

Walkers Art Club 2019-2020 Student Exhibition

An online exhibition of works by students of the Walkers Art Club programme, 2019-2020

12-27 Sep 2019

Inside Out

Artworks by inmates of HM Northward and Fairbanks prisons and residents of the Caribbean Haven Residential Centre

10-24 Dec Jan 2018

Traces

Activating the Art Curriculum

11-9 Jul Aug 2014

Our Gems of Art

NGCI Instructors Exhibition

29-20 Jan Feb 2013

Instructors Exhibition

10-7 Nov Jan 2009