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Nadia Huggins
Born1984
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Nationality Trinidadian
OccupationPhotographer

Nadia Huggins was born in 1984 in Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. She now resides in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Nadia Huggins is a self-taught photographer and graphic designer who has worked extensively throughout the Caribbean. She was awarded the Festival Caribbeen de L'image du Mémorial Acte Jury Prize in Guadeloupe in 2015.

Early Life and Interests

Growing up in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Nadia Huggins was raised just a short walk from a beach. She spent most of her time at the beach, ultimately teaching herself how to swim. During her adolescent years, she enjoyed climbing and jumping off rocks with “the boys” she became friends with. Within time, she dismissed herself from her group of friends because of work. She soon developed an interest in photography and bought her first camera.[1]

Huggins, became interested in photographing people and their experiences around the Caribbean. Her passion lies in making images in the sea, which allows her to see the beauty of not only by what can be seen above the surface, but also what you cannot see below. Nadia has learned to overcome her fear of the water by photographing herself inside in the water. She compares objects such as sea urchins and underwater flora to her own body's texture and parts.

Career and Work

Nadia Huggins co-founded ARC Magazine in 2011. ARC's mission is to expand creative culture, within the visual arts industry across the wider Caribbean and its diasporas.[2]

Huggins, has most recently worked on Fighting the Currents project, which focuses on bodies underwater. Nadia, uses her own body, the ocean, and marine organisms to compare the similarities within. Huggins states, “Most people's experience with the sea occurs at eye level with the horizon and they are oblivious to what is happening below the surface. I am interested in the notion that 'just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there."[3]

Exhibitions

Huggins has exhibited her work worldwide. Selected exhibitions include the following.

(2019) Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, USA [4]
(2019) A Love Ethic, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada [5]
(2018) Caribbean Women Photographers and the Body Within Caribbean Landscapes and Seascapes, Addis Foto Fest 2018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

(2018) Arrivants: Art and Migration in the Anglophone Caribbean World, Barbados Museum, Barbados[6]
(2018) Bodies of water, material detritus, and reclamation of used things and objects, Tempsspace, Montréal, Canada[7]
(2018) Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, USA [8]
(2017) Fighting the Currents, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, Dominican republic [9]
(2017) Jamaica Biennial 2017, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica [10]
(2017) Small Axe: Caribbean Queer Visualities, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK [11]
(2016) Small Axe Caribbean Queer Visualities, Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK [12]
(2016) Vision Archipéliques, Fondation Clément, Martinique [13]
(2016) Featured artist for Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival, Miami, USA [14]
(2016) Embodied Islands: A Caribbean photographic exhibition, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
(2015) Fighting the currents single piece installation, Alice Yard AY24/7, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago [15]
(2014) (e)merge Art Fair: ARC + NLS collaboration, Washington DC [16]
(2014) 2014 Frames: Projecting International Photography, Glasgow, Scotland, UK [17]
(2011) About Change, The World Bank Group Washington DC, USA

Awards

(2015) Festival Caribeen de L'image du Mémorial Acte - 2015 Jury Prize. Category: Photographer. Awarded by La Région Guadeloupe. [18]

Residencies

(2017) Once upon a water, Pico Island, the Azores [19]

"Nadia Huggins” LensCulture, www.lensculture.com/nadia-huggins

References

  1. ^ https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-134/after-leap#axzz5kwv7AUdL
  2. ^ "About ARC Magazine". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  3. ^ http://www.panthalassa.org/transformations-by-nadia-huggins/
  4. ^ https://www.portlandmuseum.org/exhibitions/relational-undercurrents?fbclid=IwAR2ditAadaGO15spEn4wFG75iXifM5BAdQ_EexBIghEOqglieb25zAkCuBI
  5. ^ https://www.wedgecuratorialprojects.org/a-love-ethic
  6. ^ "What the land and sea tell us Caribbean Women Photographers and the Body Within Caribbean Landscapes and Seascapes – Addis Foto Fest". Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  7. ^ https://www.facebook.com/237953890285905/photos/rpp.237953890285905/299362914145002/?type=3&theater
  8. ^ "Relational Undercurrents". Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  9. ^ "Centro de la Imagen – Fundación Centro de la imagen" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  10. ^ nationalgalleryofjamaica (2017-02-13). "Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Bulletin 3: Main Opening Function on February 26". National Gallery of Jamaica Blog. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  11. ^ "Transmission". www.transmissiongallery.org. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  12. ^ "Outburst 2016 Programme". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  13. ^ "Exposition collective I Visions Archipéliques du 13 octobre au 30 novembre 2016 | Fondation Clément". www.fondation-clement.org (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  14. ^ "Third Horizon Film Festival Returns September 27-30 2018 Miami, FL". thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  15. ^ "Alice Yard". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  16. ^ "ARC + NLS collaborate for (e)merge Art Fair". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  17. ^ "2014Frames". 2014Frames. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  18. ^ "Nadia Huggins". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  19. ^ "Exhibition 2017 – Once Upon Water". Retrieved 2019-04-24.
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