Holly Bynoe

I am an independent curator, writer, educator, spiritualist, Earth Ally and researcher from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, currently living in Barbados deepening my eco-social art practice focusing on regenerative healing strategies for the land, psyche and body.

In 2010, I co-founded ARC Magazine, a platform and publication on Caribbean visual art and culture. I am also a graduate of Bard College where I earned an M.F.A. in Advanced Photographic Studies.

I am co-director of Caribbean Linked, a regional residency program held annually in Aruba supporting cultural exchange, and co-founder of Tilting Axis, an annual meeting charting arts activism, decolonial methodologies and models of creative sustainability across the region along with an offshoot Fellowship supporting Caribbean artists, designers and thinkers.

I held a 5-year tenure as Chief Curator of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas through the end of 2019 where my interest in decolonization, ecology, spiritual and ancestral practices, eco-feminism and vegetal intelligences was able to find seed, root and branch.

I have been working as Generator and Healer at the social arts non-profit, The Hub Collective Inc based on my home island of Bequia contributing to their sustainable, regenerative, environmental and intergenerational pillars and is co-founder of Sour Grass, a curatorial agency supporting contemporary Caribbean art practice through the lens of place-based (anti-colonial) practices.

Most recently, I have joined Amberfi as Caribbean Arts Advisor and Mentor in their building of an NFT Marketplace for the Caribbean Free Trade Zone. This space focuses on developing decentralized and autonomous routes to a new digital community and economy across the Caribbean.

For more on my writing, expressions and plant mediations and meditations visit my website.