The Constituency

November 13 - November 1, 2025

Opening Reception:

November 13, 5:00-7:00PM Free

Tamika Galanis’s The Constituency is the first of a series of works born with Bahamian archival futurities in mind. Galanis’s work counters the widely held paradisiacal view of the Caribbean, the origins of which arose post-emancipation through a controlled, systematic visual framing and commodification of the tropics. The exhibition presents images from constituencies in New Providence and Cat Island, Bahamas.

Galanis is a Bahamian-American artist whose work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Her photography-based practice includes traditional documentary work and new media abstractions of written, oral, and archival histories. Emphasizing the importance of Bahamian cultural identity for cultural preservation, Galanis documents aspects of Bahamian life not curated for tourist consumption to intervene in the historical archive.

Tamika Galanis was born in Oklahoma City, OK, and currently lives in Syracuse, N.Y. Her work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, Nassau, The Bahamas, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, N.C., TERN Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas, apexart, New York, N.Y., Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, TW and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and numerous other venues. She has received grants and residencies from Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Penn Center and UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, St. Helena, S.C., Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., among other awards and recognition for her work.