Artist Statement

Jodi Minnis (she/her) is a visual artist whose practice contends with multiplicity through the lens of gender, race and culture. Utilizing drawing, collage, sculpture and performance, she scrutinizes the traditional representations and tropes around Black, specifically Bahamian, women. By investigating how imagery defines and relegates social status and investigating the personal and political aspects of those themes, Minnis uses her practice as reclamation and call to ownership of the totality of Black Caribbean womanhood.

About

Jodi Minnis (she/her) was born in Nassau, The Bahamas. She holds an Associate's Degree in Fine Arts from the College of The Bahamas (2015). She was awarded the Popop Junior Residency Prize in 2014 and participated in the Caribbean Linked III residency programme in 2015. She studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Tampa, where she received The Charlene Gordon Award in Visual Art from the College of Arts and Letters (2019). In the same year, back in The Bahamas, she received the National Youth Award for Arts and Culture, as well as the prestigious Prime Minister’s Cup award from the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. Minnis has exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art and National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Her work can be found in the Dawn Davies collection and the Central Bank of The Bahamas collection.