HOT SUN Caribbean Contemporary Art, is a curated platform for emerging and established Contemporary Artists of the Caribbean and its diaspora, based in the region and worldwide.

This platform will present the work of francophone, anglophone, hispanophone and many other contemporary artists, providing a major opportunity for the Caribbean and the diaspora to occupy space within the international Contemporary Art Market.

HOT SUN CCA is a space, a platform, an art gallery beyond-gallery walls, to share, discover, connect, acquire and engage with the work of emerging and established contemporary artists from the Caribbean.

An ever evolving repository of Caribbean Contemporary Art, HOT SUN CCA is guided by values of building community, dialogue, criticality, mobility, collaboration and the interconnected nature of these elements to Artists of our region and the sustainability of their practice.

about the founder

Adeline Gregoire

 

Adeline Gregoire is a curator, artist and cultural writer from Trinidad & Tobago working at the intersection of Caribbean contemporary art, decolonial aesthetics and the politics of visibility. Over more than a decade, she has built platforms, programmes and publications that position Caribbean artists — and the communities whose histories they carry — as central voices in global cultural conversation.

In 2021, Gregoire founded HOT SUN Caribbean Contemporary Art, a borderless digital platform and curatorial initiative representing more than twenty artists drawn from the full breadth of the Caribbean and its diaspora: francophone, anglophone, hispanophone, and beyond. The organisation operates simultaneously as gallery, archive, critical journal and artist-support infrastructure, and has become one of the region's most significant independent art institutions. Fluent in English, French and Spanish, she moves with rare ease between the three dominant cultural traditions of the Caribbean. This trilingual range is neither incidental nor merely practical, but constitutive of her curatorial method: the ability to read the region whole, rather than through any single colonial inheritance.


Her curatorial credits include exhibitions at the Central Bank Museum of Trinidad & Tobago, Atrium Tropiques Scène Nationale in Martinique, and public art projects in Guadeloupe, alongside a sustained programme of solo and group exhibitions in Port of Spain. She has served on the selection committee for Documents d'Artistes Caraïbes-Amazones (2025) — the principal documentation body for artists across Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guyana — and on the jury of the Rubis Mécénat Unrepresented Photography Award in France (2025).


Co-editor of Culturego magazine since 2013, Gregoire has sustained a platform for Caribbean arts criticism and cultural journalism. Her own visual practice — exhibited internationally, including at the Atlantic World Art Fair through Calabar Gallery, New York, and at the Japan Society, New York — explores landscape, memory and the female gaze through painting and mixed media.

Gregoire's work positions her not only as a practitioner but as a long-standing patron of Caribbean artistic life: an advocate, enabler and architect of the institutional conditions that make serious creative practice in the region possible.

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Operating from a Caribbean frame

Throughout western history, the Caribbean has been a site of recurring conflict, violence, extraction, exploitation, commodification, oppression and erasure but simultaneously one of resistance, revolution, hybridization and resilience.

HOT SUN CCA acknowledges and embraces the alterity of the Caribbean, which is rooted in our indigenous, diverse stories and layered legacies throughout this region. This is not an imported gaze. Representation is key.

Beyond walls.

At a time where mobility is limited if not discouraged due to a global pandemic, it was important to re-think how creative and artistic practice could continue to be viewed, engaged with and become accessible to a wider community. And while nothing replaces or could replace the physical, full sensory interaction with a work of art, as we speak - open, borderless and de-confined spaces “hors les murs”/ beyond walls, are the new middle ground where we are free to connect with each other and to the global community in these times.

Mission & Vision

Since we began our creative journey in 2013, our work at CULTUREGO has been focussed on representation, inclusivity, accessibility and the need for more Caribbean and diasporic narratives. These threads are present in everything we do. HOT SUN, our online platform dedicated to the contemporary artscene, artscape is no different, and seeks to connect the Caribbean and its diaspora to and most importantly, to exist in the global art world.

There is no doubt, that the advent of a pandemic in 2020 has forced us all as artists and cultural producers - regionally and internationally - to re-imagine the work we do, get to the heart of why we produce content and continue to create and enable creative practice beyond traditional and conventional spaces, structures and systems.

Now, more than ever - we believe that Art is essential to life. Like air, it is non-negotiable. Art helps us question, re-imagine and re-create the world, engaging us at a profound, bodily level. Art makes us think, helps us to see, reimagine the invisible and dream what may seem impossible. Art is transformative as it is powerful.

An artist records, translates and helps in the restoration of collective memory. As such, the mission to intentionally amplify the artist’s voice/ story, as it resounds from the Caribbean - a region of 43 million people - is not only interesting, but it is vital to the present and the futures we are creating.