Dominique Hunter

Dominique Hunter is a multi-disciplinary visual artist living and working in Guyana. She received her BFA from the Barbados Community College in 2015 and secured the Leslie’s Legacy Foundation Award for Most Outstanding Work. Past residencies include Caribbean Linked IV (Aruba, 2016) and the Vermont Studio Center Residency (USA, 2017), following the Reed Foundation Fellowship award. Hunter has exhibited locally as well as in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami. She has works in several prestigious collections including Guyana’s National Collection. In 2023, Dominique Hunter is one of the participating artists at the Atlantic World Art Fair, which highlights refreshing contemporary Art from the Caribbean and our diaspora.

Concepts of “here” and “there,” within the Caribbean context and viewed through a lens of binary opposition, point to a distorted perception that stems from the way in which residents of the region are typically “trained” to consider each space (i.e. anywhere else is better than “here”). I’m interested in how we navigate those spaces; what we take with us, and the systems designed to control our movement. I use what I call “mini migrations” to examine the experiences of those of us who, while rooted in a very particular space, find relief and discomfort at the cusp of both spaces.