Tavares Strachan

Bahamian | 1979

Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1979. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Perrotin, Paris (2bis Av Matignon) have featured Tavares Strachan's work in the past.Tavares Strachan's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 7,209 USD to 43,750 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 43,750 USD for You Belong Here, sold at Phillips New York in 2014. Tavares Strachan has been featured in articles for Hyperallergic, ArtDaily and The Art Newspaper. The most recent article is The Royal Academy Reframes Its Past written for Apollo in April 2024.

(i) Sample for One Thing Existing #6(ii) Sample for One Thing Existing #7

each: oil on canvas

each: 56 1 ⁄ 8 x 41 1 ⁄ 8 in. (142.5 x 104.5cm.)

We Are in This Together (Shades of Blue) Edition of 9 + 2 AP (AP 1 of 2) - Tavares Strachan

We Are in This Together (Shades of Blue) Edition of 9 + 2 AP (AP 1 of 2), 2019

blue, white neon

17 by 73 by 3

THE BLUES, 2021

2 panels; oil, enamel, bambara mask (mali), natural fibers, pigment, brass, and acrylic

84 x 84 x 2 1/2 inches

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

(i) Sample for One Thing Existing #6(ii) Sample for One Thing Existing #7

By Tavares Strachan

+4%

above mid-estimate

Christie's Online

Mathew Henson

By Tavares Strachan

Sotheby's London

MATTHEW (CONSTELLATION SERIES)

By Tavares Strachan

+101%

above mid-estimate

Sotheby's New York

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Current Exhibitions

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. Art, Colonialism and Change

Royal Academy of Arts

Mayfair | London | UK

Feb 03,2024 - Apr 28,2024

Standing in the gap

Goodman Gallery, London

Mayfair | London | UK

Apr 02,2024 - May 08,2024

It Will Go On

MoCA Westport

Westport | Connecticut | USA

Mar 21,2024 - Jun 16,2024

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Articles

The Royal Academy Reframes Its Past

Apollo 08/04/2024

1768 was a triumphant and a turbulent year for the British Empire.

10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April

Hyperallergic 28/03/2024

Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.

'Entangled Pasts 1768 - Now: Art, Colonialism and Change' opens at the Royal Academy of Arts

ArtDaily 17/03/2024

The Royal Academy of Arts presents Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change, an ambitious exhibition bringing together over 100 major contemporary.

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Coverage

“ ..Tavares Strachan’s Encyclopedia of Invisibility is one person’s attempt to unravel the Borgesian web... ”
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Regen Projects

“ ..By pitting the invisible against the visible, the unseen against the seen, Strachan’s epistemic exploration re-defines the territory of the known... ”
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Regen Projects

“ ..Strachan incorporates science, art, and the environment to create works that are ambitious in scale and scope... ”
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Frye Art Museum

“ ..Strachan aims to build and connect communities through his work by making visible networks of power that prompt viewers to reconsider their relationships on a local and global level... ”
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Frye Art Museum

“ ..By symbolically flooding the museum, Strachan brings submerged histories to the surface and transforms the gallery into a space of actual and conceptual reflection... ”
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Frye Art Museum