Amanda Coulson

Exchange Topic: Incorporating Technology into an Art Practice
May 2024

Amanda Coulson is a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer based in Nassau, Bahamas. She is the founding partner of TERN Gallery (located in Nassau) and has worked for three decades in the industry on both sides of the Atlantic, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues, in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribbean. Her vast experience with artists working in New Media offers a curator's point of view on best practices for artists utilizing tech in their projects, including: case studies of successful incorporation, how collectors respond to such work, and presentation/installation prep.

As an art critic and curator, she noted a lack of platforms for galleries representing emerging art and, in 2005, co-founded the VOLTA art fairs, which takes place annually in New York and Basel. In 2011, she returned to her home in The Bahamas to take up the position of Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), where her focus was on increasing international awareness of the contemporary Caribbean art scene and on expanding the capacity and reach of the NAGB through a rigorous combination of capital works, collaborative projects and the building of strong inter-island and international networks. She served on the Davidoff Art Initiative (now the Caribbean Art Initiative) Board from 2012-2018, and served on the Board of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) until she stepped down from the NAGB, after a decade at the helm. She now works full time at TERN, a Nassau-based gallery operated by three Caribbean women whose aim is to support Bahamian and Caribbean artists in telling their own stories the global stage.