Tavares Strachan

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Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.

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instanceOf Bahamian person
art installation
art project
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conceptual artist
contemporary artist
installation artist
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public artwork
visual artist
artisticMedium glass
large-scale installation
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video
basedIn New York City
countryOfCitizenship The Bahamas NERFINISHED
creator Tavares Strachan self-linksurface differs
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educatedAt University of The Bahamas
surface form: College of the Bahamas

Rhode Island School of Design
Yale School of Art
surface form: Yale University School of Art
exhibitedAt Brooklyn Museum
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
surface form: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Studio Museum in Harlem
Venice Biennale
fieldOfWork conceptual art
installation art
multimedia art
sculpture
hasWork Enoch
Orthostatic Tolerance
The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want
You Belong Here
involves Arctic ice
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainSubject Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
space travel
movement contemporary art
notableAs first African American astronaut selected for a national space program
notableFor collaborations with scientific institutions
exploring politics of visibility
exploring themes of history
exploring themes of identity
integrating scientific research into art practice
research-driven art projects
placeOfBirth Nassau
surface form: Nassau, The Bahamas
theme climate and environment
colonial history
erasure of Black historical figures
exploration
migration
science and technology
space exploration

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