Whitehead, Tessa

Tessa Whitehead (b. 1985, Nassau, The Bahamas) is a multi-media artist, whose work explores her internal experience in conversation with the tropical landscape. Her paintings, drawings and sculptures combine and contrast elements of the Bahamian landscape with surreal figures and familial portraits. The result is an autobiographical perspective of femininity and womanhood.

Whitehead received her BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2007) and her MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (2009). She held a solo exhibition at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in 2019 and at TERN, Nassau, in 2024. She has participated in group exhibitions including "Beginning," The Brighton Storeroom, Barbados (2019); "Ubersee/Overseas: Contemporary Art from Cuba and The Bahamas" , Halle 14, Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany (2017); "Showoff," Cooke Latham Gallery (2020); "Nassau Calling" (collaborative works with Heino Schmid), at HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (2015); and "Showoff" (with Heino Schmid), curated by LeandaKateLouise, London, UK (2015).