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Cydne Jasmin Coleby

'My collages examine personal and collective relationships to trauma and how it shapes our identity.'

“Coleby’s practice, first rooted in self portraiture and now extended into depictions of those in her bloodline, has built traction on the idea of self-celebration via a re-imaging and reimagining of the self.

 

– Natalie Willis, Associate Curator, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

From a very young age Coleby has felt comfortable disassociating herself from her body, seeing it in its truest form, as it is seen by others. She believes such a perspective ultimately leads to acceptance, and that once one completely accepts their physical extension in space, an examination of one’s mentality awaits.

Coleby’s forays into psychoanalytic thinking have led to an interest in the transformative effects of trauma; she studies the relationships that we form with the seismic emotional occurrences of our lifetimes – trying to determine what informs our personality and what defines it. Ultimately her view is a pessimistic one: Coleby doubts our capacity for closure, viewing and capturing every traumatic experience as a blot on the copybook of character.

  • Cydne Jasmin Coleby at 1-54 Art Fair, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Cydne Jasmin Coleby and Stacey Gillian Abe at 1-54 Art Fair, London, 2023. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

  • Installation view: Cydne Jasmin Coleby, 'Queen Mudda', at Unit, London, 2021. Image courtesy of Unit

Works

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Church Mudda

2021

Acrylic, decorative paper, gold ink, glitter and photo collage on canvas
101.6 x 91.44 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Courted Laydees

2021

Acrylic, sand, watercolor, glitter, decorative paper and photo collage on canvas
121.92 x 152.4 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Queen in Training

2021

Acrylic, decorative paper, crepe paper, fabric, and photo collage on canvas
101.6 x 91.44 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Ushered In

2021

Acrylic, decorative paper, crepe paper, glitter, gold ink and photo collage on canvas
96.52 x 91.44 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Gapseed

2020

Acrylic, watercolor, glitter, crepe paper and collage on fabric
76 x 102 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Specimen (5/11)

2019

Digital Collage (Matte print edition of 1)
28 x 35 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Specimen (6/11)

2019

Digital Collage (Matte print edition of 1)
35 x 28 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Untitled (Self Portrait I)

2020

Acrylic, block print and collage on paper
35.5 x 28 cm

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

Untitled (Self Portrait III)

2020

Acrylic, block print and collage on paper.
35.5 x 28 cm

Exhibitions

Art Fair

1-54 London

12 October - 15 October 2023

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Biography

Cydne Jasmin Coleby (b. 1993) hails from Nassau in The Bahamas. She attended The College of The Bahamas (now University) where she received her associate degree in art in 2012. Afterwards she worked as a graphic designer specialising in brand design. 

Selected solo exhibitions including Queen Mudda, Unit, London, UK (2021) and Family Matters, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France (2020). Recent group exhibitions include 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Unit, London, UK (2023); NE10: Mercy, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas (2022); Cydne Jasmin Coleby & Rico Gatson, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France (2022); Identity Fabric, King Manor Museum, New York, USA (2022). In 2022, Coleby completed the Silver Art Projects Residency, New York, USA and the Wassaic Project Winter Residency, New York, USA.

Her works are held in several prominent collections, including the Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, USA, The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, Bahamas and The Bunker Foundation (Rudin DeWoody Collection), West Palm Beach, USA.

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Unit London Editions

Cydne Jasmin Coleby

The Most Precious Flower

2021

25 Colour Screenprint with selected varnishing, brass leaf and glitter embellishments on Somerset Tub Sized 410 gsm paper, with cut edges to finish.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition of 30 and 3 Artist Proofs.
50 cm x 59 cm.
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