Alanis Forde Barbados
Alanis Forde (b. 1996, Barbados) is a contemporary Barbadian artist who specializes in expressionistic realism portraiture.
Alanis has been in a number of group exhibitions at Vermont Studio Center, The Barbados Museum and Historical Society, The Crane Gallery, Gallery of Caribbean Art and a few other non-conventional spaces. Forde has just completed her second residency at the Chautauqua Institution Visual Arts Program in New York. She’s also been featured in publishing’s such as Sugarcane Magazine and Barbados Today online newspaper.
In the years she’s been creating, Alanis’ concepts are based primarily on the black female identity in an idealized, exotic, paradisiacal Caribbean space. Through her proxy she navigates life through paradise.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
2023 Spring Break: Wild Card - Filo Sofi Arts Gallery (New York)
2022 Repose - Gallery 1969 (New York)
2021 & 2022 PRIZM – Curated by Mikhaile Solomon – (Miami)
2021 Be Of Good- Courage – Curated by Mashonda Tifrere – (New York)
2021 At Peace – Curated by Jade Foster – Gillian Jason Gallery (London)
2021 Interconnected -John Wolf Gallery (Los Angeles)
2021 The Portrait Show IX– Modern Eden Gallery (San Francisco)
2021 Reimagined: Unspoken Bodies and Spaces Exhibition (Barbados)
2021 Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This – Vox Populi Gallery
2020 Reasonable Nomenclatures Of Invisibility – Paris Texas LA Gallery (California)
2020 Chautauqua Visual Arts Emerging Artist Exhibition - Gallo Family Gallery (New York)
2020 – Distant Future, VSC Emerging Artist Exhibition- Vermont Studio Center (Vermont)
2016 – Antilla: The Digital Island (online exhibition)
