Anina Major

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. Photo by Melissa Alcena 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