Masterworks Announces 2026 Exhibition Lineup

Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art has unveiled its 2026 exhibition lineup, showcasing historical, contemporary, and Bermudian-focused art across its galleries.

A spokesperson said, “Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is pleased to announce its 2026 exhibition programme, presenting a dynamic range of exhibitions across the Butterfield Gallery and the Rick Faries Gallery. The year ahead highlights major historical perspectives, contemporary Bermudian voices, and dialogues between place, identity, and artistic practice.

Butterfield Gallery

“Curated by the Masterworks Curatorial Team, and Guest Curators.

Currently on View:

• Janet Fish: Place in Time
• November 15, 2025 – April 18, 2026
• Co-Curated by Melissa Messina and Sara Thom

“On November 15, 2025, Masterworks Museum opened the first-ever exhibition in Bermuda dedicated to the late American painter Janet Fish, who was raised on the island. This five decade survey explores Fish’s distinctive approach to still life painting while examining the intersections between her artistic practice, her upbringing in Bermuda, and her lived experience. The exhibition offers Bermudian audiences a rare opportunity to engage with the work of an internationally celebrated artist whose visual language has been shaped in part by the island itself. It is on view until April 18, 2026, after which is will tour to institutions in the United States.

Upcoming Exhibitions:

• Visions of the Vernacular: Architecture in the Masterworks Collection
• May 2 – September 12, 2026
• Curated by Sara Thom and Max Grainge

“Architecture is a crucial component of what makes Bermuda so historically and visually unique. Throughout the Island’s modern history, local and visiting artists have reflected this by foregrounding Bermuda’s architectural vernacular as a subject in their work – studying, celebrating, and re-interpreting its forms. Visions of the Vernacular: Architecture in the Masterworks Collection presents selected works of art from the Permanent Collection, dating from the early nineteenth century to the present day, which illustrate the distinctive character of Bermuda houses and the Island’s broader built landscape.

“Visions of the Vernacular: Architecture in the Masterworks Collection highlights fundamental elements of Bermudian architecture which artists in the Permanent Collection represent from a variety of perspectives – depicting the geometric patterns of rooflines, the half-secluded spaces of verandas, and the framing forms of gates and pillars. These images invite the viewer to consider the social functions and symbolic meanings of these and other vernacular architectural features, as understood by the people living within and around them as well as the artists illustrating them.

“The exhibition is complemented by a participatory installation by Kimberley Fisher, functioning as both a workshop and shared art-making space. The installation encourages reflection on vernacular forms as spaces of memory, identity, and lived experience.

• History in the Making
• September 25 – March 20, 2027
• Curated by Daisy Gould and Jasmine Lee, Curator of Contemporary Art

“This exhibition reframes Masterworks’ historic collection through the eyes, experiences and creative agency of Bermudians today. While the founding premise of the Masterworks Collection was to celebrate Bermuda as seen by international artists, this exhibition centres the local view – Bermudian voices, interpretations and futures.

“History in the Making will present works by contemporary Bermudian artists, including several new commissions, alongside historical favourites, emphasizing the power of Bermudians to construct history on our own terms, reminding us that history is not imposed from elsewhere but continues to be actively shaped locally, through the lives and voices of Bermudians. Ultimately, the exhibition positions art as an active participant in shaping the island’s history; it is not something fixed in archives or paintings from the past, it is unfolding around us and beyond us. It honours the Collection as a catalyst to prompt reflection and dialogue, affirming Bermuda’s most vital histories are still being made today.

Rick Faries Gallery

“Curated by Jasmine Lee, Curator of Contemporary Art, unless otherwise stated.

Currently on View:

• Better Would
• January 16 – February 28, 2026
• Kimberley Fisher with Ish Yakub Corday and Blair Raughley Masters

“Better Would is a collaborative installation by visual artist Kimberley Fisher, featuring photography by Ish Yakub Corday and Blair Raughley Masters. Developed through a shared process of exchange and interpretation, the exhibition explores themes of care, obligation, and shared authorship. The artists’ collaborative methodology challenges traditional notions of individual artistic voice; Better Would presents a unified visual language shaped by multiple perspectives.

Upcoming Exhibitions:

• A Personal Ecology
• March 6 – April 25, 2026
• Louisa Bermingham

“Louisa Bermingham’s exhibition will bring together painting and elements of installation – ceramics, driftwood, handmade forms, and collected ephemera – to create an immersive environment that reflects interconnectedness, impermanence, and personal history.

• Palimpsest
• May 1 – June 27, 2026
• Meg Walters

“Meg Walters will present a body of work shaped by a life lived between Bermuda and Australia. Through layered imagery and painterly gestures, Palimpsest explores impermanence, displacement, and the evolving idea of home. The exhibition offers a contemporary perspective on Bermuda’s landscape, filtered through distance, memory, and dual belonging.

“Walters is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist from Bermuda based in Newcastle, New South Wales [Mulubinba], Australia. She has been a finalist in major Australian awards including The Glover Prize and The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award and will participate in the 2026 Bundanon Residency. She has held ten solo exhibitions, and her works are held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally.

• Bermuda through my Palette
• July 3 – August 15, 2026
• Michele Smith

“Michelle Smith is known for her bold, colour-driven interpretations of the island. Working primarily in acrylics and oils, Smith is known for capturing Bermuda’s distinctive light and atmosphere through her expressive brushwork. Her more recent palette-knife techniques will be further explored in this upcoming work.

• Nahshon Hollis and Shanna Hollis
• August 21 – October 3, 2026

“This exhibition unites the work of siblings Nahshon and Shanna Hollis, two prominent figures in Bermuda’s contemporary art scene. Nahshon Hollis is an award-winning oil painter whose work spans portraiture, landscape, realism, and surreal imagery inspired by Bermudian culture and environment. Shanna Hollis is a graphic designer, muralist, and arts educator whose vibrant, pattern-driven work celebrates community, identity, and island life across murals, textiles, and design.

• Black Pony Gallery Group Exhibition
• October 9 – December 5, 2026
• Guest-curated by Lisa Howie, Founding Director of Black Pony Gallery

“A group exhibition bringing together contemporary artists from the Caribbean Mid-Atlantic. Presented during Art Month, the exhibition reflects guest curator Lisa Howie’s commitment to showcasing diverse and innovative artistic practices from our region.

• John Gardner
• December 11, 2026 – January 23, 2027

“John Gardner will present a modern, secular interpretation of The Garden of Earthly Delights, a famous 16th-century triptych oil painting by Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch [c. 1490–1510]. A multidisciplinary artist and architect, Gardner is known for concept-driven installations and public artworks that have garnered international attention.”

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