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...since 2011 Sexypink has been the definitive site for Art from Trinidad & Tobago, the Caribbean & the Americas. Sexypink aims to enlighten ALL of us to our rich heritage of Art in the region and beyond ~ enjoy...

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Sexypink - more than an archive.

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Sexypink - Anti-Colonial Archives - save the date.

Sexypink - There is no ethnographic Miranda without colonial temporality… discuss.

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Sexypink - it is that time again to know ourselves through film.

Sexypink - Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2026

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Sexypink - Perez Art Museum Miami /PAMM TV - Save the date

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Sexypink - Congratulations Blanka Amezkua - Mexican-American Latino inter-disciplinary contemporary artist.

Sexypink - https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/resource/artist-registry/Blanka-Amezkua.html

I believe we are all cultural bearers… It is my role not only as an artist, but...

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Sexypink - Afro Brazilian Textile Artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario - 1909-1989 - documentary.

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Sexypink - Brazilian Textile Artist -Arthur Bispo do Rosario - 1909-1989 - known as Bispo / Bishop - interior image.

The Annunciation Cloak shows names of every woman he wanted to take with him to heaven.

Sexypink - the divine objects called ORFA/ Objects wrapped in thread - Bispo used hospital gowns including his own where he spent most of his life after a diagnosis for paranoid schizophrenia in 1938 until his passing in 1989. The wrapping is done as a protection to keep objects safe.

Sexypink - Sheets from the psychiatric hospital that became his home, Bispo created imagined worlds.

Sexypink - Using stitching and writing, Bispo creates a personal hieroglyphics that can be read symbolically. He also adds names, dates and events.

Sexypink - a detail of Bispo’s own striking ‘ uniforms’ that shows incredible details of text and image personal to his religious, psychic beliefs. The cloak was made for ‘ judgement day’ preparing his meeting with God.

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Sexypink - Brazilian American Tininha Silva - it is easy to be drawn to these organic installations. The ebb and flow of coastal life is bound up in instinctive ways.

Sexypink - Tininha Silva interacting with her work.

Sexypink - Sea Blossom - Brazilian American Natural Fibre Installation Artist Tininha Silva

Sexypink - As Time Flies - natural fibers with copper frame - Brazilian American Artist - Tininha Silva

Sexypink - collecting materials within and around the Salis Sea, Tininha Silva breaths new life into formations.

Sexypink - It’s not what I See, it is how I Sea - Tininha Silva

Sexypink-Growing Together - Tininha Silva - Brazilian American Artist

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Sexypink - Cuban American Photographers Elliot and Erick Jiminez

Sexypink - Cuban Visual Artists and Photographers Elliot and Erick Jimenez’s works play on Afro Cuban cosmology of Ibeyi among other themes, that of the symbology of twin hood - to be bound and divided at the same time.

Titled: One to bind, one to break

Sexypink - Cuban American - Elliot and Erick Jiminez - in collaboration with the fashion house Gucci

Sexypink - Cuban American - Elliot and Erick Jiminez - series for christopherjohnrogers and for family_style.

Sexypink - The Grand Odalisque - Oshun in recline - Elliot and Erick Jiminez

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Famed artist Willi Chen has died

Willi Chen, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most versatile and inventive cultural figures, died on Friday at the age of 91. Born on October 26,

Sexypink - Rest In Peace Mr. Chen. Thank you for your work.

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Sexypink - Afro-Cuban Painter Harmonia Rosales lives and works in America. Her sumptuous paintings of people of color discuss mastery, beauty, myth and history. Ms Rosales’s technical skills reference West African spiritual traditions. She re-imagines an inclusive history around black bodies.

Sexypink - the painters hand at work - Harmonia Rosales

Sexypink - Afro-Cuban Painter Harmonia Rosales transcends time. Sexypink can imagine what could have been if she were alive during the Renaissance or the Golden Age of Rembrandt himself. But we do not have to, because she is creating magic now.

Sexypink - detail - Harmonia Rosales

Sexypink - Cuban Artist Harmonia Rosales - On turbulent waters

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Sexypink - collage is having a moment. British Jamaican Artist Jazz Grant breaths new life into a technique developed over a century ago. Her name aptly describes her installations.

Sexypink - Give me Fever - Jazz Grant - British Jamaican Collage Artist - screen print, acrylic paint and laser engraving on ply board. A view of the multiple angles presented in this work. Ms Grant calls this work three dimensional collage.

Sexypink - British Jamaican Jazz Grant merges printmaking,archival imagery, botanical illustrations and political imagery.

Sexypink - movement, memorial and relic are pared down to abstract form. Ms Jazz Grant’s sculptural, animated forms and images question memory, history and contemporary narratives.

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Sexypink - Looking forward to Shane Hanson Mohammed.

Sexypink - Shane Hanson Mohammed - a peak of his upcoming work.

Sexypink - Shane Hanson Mohammed - detail

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Sexypink - Emancipation is more than a day.

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Sexypink - Get ready.

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Sexypink - JULY 2026 - the seventh month began with a film based on the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, The Day the Pan Sailed. Then the Guyanese British Artist Hew Locke announced a great commission for Skulptur Projekte Munster, Germany.

Art Legacy Exhibition featuring professional Art alumni of Queens Royal College ended enthusiastically on July 30th and Ode to the Motherland Exhibition at Mille Fleur Heritage House ends on July 31st. The Central Bank’s calendar of events includes much entertainment for African Emancipation Day.

Trinbagonian Artist Shalini Seereeram raises funds for the earthquake victims of Venezuela by auctioning one of her paintings. Please support her for this worthy cause.

In the Virgin Islands, Activists and Cultural Documentarians David A Berg and Juliana Berry educate the public about preserving the island space.

Photography is used experimentally by Icaro Galvao. All forms of tactile material caught our eye for July. Grenadian American Shervone Neckles uses handmade paper and seeds in unexpected ways. Columbian Artist Delcy Moralos employed clay in a monumental way. Honduran Artist Adrian Pepe manipulates felt and animal hide symbolically to create stunning images.

While Peruvian Textile Artist Ana Teresa Barbosa fixates on indigenous materials and techniques creating contemporary tapestries.

K2KAlliance & Partners announce a new chapter for 2027 - Caribbean * Asia. We look forward to what we know shall be a spectacular partnership.

July also was a month to say goodbye to two icons of Trinidad and Tobago’s Arts and Cultural history. Paul ‘ Bill’ Trotman, Calypsonian and Artist and Venezuelan based Abstract Ceramicist and Sculptor Valerie Brathwaite. REST IN PEACE and thank you for your decades of work.

Rafael Chavez, Brazilian Potter’s first solo show and paintings is a must to watch.

Caribbean Painters and St.Kittishian Painter Hasani Clayton were also great new finds for sexypink. It is always such a boon to see the strong work from the smallest islands.

Curator Adeline Gregoire took us on a delightful Martiniquais journey to the Pool Art Fair. As Anjeni Ramtahal, Curator, entrepreneur and cultural strategist’s platform LES ILES focuses on connecting Caribbean Artists with international audiences.

Finally the group show NEW Gen opened at Shoppes of Maraval, Trinidad. Featured were the works of twenty one Artists under 25.

The lion approaches in August and we look forward to the roar!

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