Photo by Melissa Alcena

Ep. 281 Anina Major (b. 1981, Nassau, Bahamas; lives and works in Upstate New York) holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including being a 2026 USA Fellow, finalist in the 2025 Loewe Craft Prize, winner of The Armory Show Pommery Prize 2024, The Future Perfect Prize 2024, the 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship and an artist residency at EKWC, the European Ceramic Workcentre. Major’s work has been exhibited throughout The Bahamas, Europe, and the United States, and is on permanent display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of The Bahamas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art; the RISD Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others.

 

Artist website https://www.aninamajor.com/

Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/

2026

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) — Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove PAMM exhibition

Artsy — Anina Major’s Giant Woven Ceramic Pots Rethink Bahamian Craft Traditions Artsy article

United States Artists — 11 Questions with 2026 USA Fellow Anina Major United States Artists interview

United States Artists — Anina Major — 2026 USA Fellow USA artist profile

Larkin Durey — Anina Major: Tender Seedlings Larkin Durey exhibition

Shoshana Wayne Gallery — Anina Major: Moments of Being Shoshana Wayne Gallery

2025

The New York Times — From Basketry to Clay, the Bahamas to New York New York Times article

Observer — Artist Anina Major Is Recontextualizing the Bahamian Narrative One Clay Plait at a Time Observer article

Vogue — In Madrid, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize Has a Homecoming—and Opens a New Chapter Vogue article

LOEWE Foundation — Anina Major — Sandcastle LOEWE Craft Prize

Ford Foundation Gallery — Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art Ford Foundation

Ceramics Now — Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art Ceramics Now

Cabana Magazine — Anina Major | Ceramicist Cabana Magazine

Wallpaper* — Five artisans from the Caribbean diaspora to have on your radar Wallpaper*

2024

The Armory Show — Revealing the 2024 Prize Winners — Pommery Prize, $25,000 The Armory Show

Joan Mitchell Foundation — In the Studio: Anina Major Joan Mitchell Foundation

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) — Unruly Navigations MoAD exhibition

Pamela Salisbury Gallery — Anina Major: All Us Come Across Water Pamela Salisbury Gallery

Whitewall — 7 Standouts from Design Miami 2024 Whitewall

Phaidon — Great Women Sculptors Phaidon

Install view, Anina Major, Soon Come Home, TERN Gallery, photo by Blair Meadows

Anina Major, Water Tower, 2024, Collection of Pérez Art Museum Miami. n© Anina Major. Courtesy the artist and TERN Gallery, Nassau. Photo: Andrew White.

Anina Major, The Landing, 2024, install view at POMMERY EXPERIENCE 18, Melodies in the Underground, photo by Mathilde Giron, courtesy the artist and TERN Gallery, Nassau

Installation view, Anina Major, Moments of Being, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery