Blue Curry (The Bahamas) and Leasho Johnson (Jamaica) were recently on view at EXPO CHICAGO, presented by TERN Gallery at FOCUS Booth #238 from April 9–12, 2026. Currently, both artists are participating in Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s new exhibition, Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, on view from April 14 through September 20, 2026. [Also see previous post Exhibition–Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaeton.] TERN Gallery explains:

The exhibition explores the visual, political, and spiritual histories of dancehall and reggaetón, tracing how these genres have evolved from grassroots cultural practices into global forces. Spanning geographies from Kingston and San Juan to Panama, New York, and London, it positions music and dance as sites of resistance and collective expression shaped by ongoing legacies of colonialism.

Working primarily in sculptural assemblage and installation, Curry employs an idiosyncratic language of found and commonplace materials to interrogate ideas of tourism, exoticism, and value, subtly unsettling familiar fantasies of the Caribbean.

Johnson, working at the intersection of painting and drawing, draws from his experience growing up Black, gay, and male in Jamaica. His figures, often hovering between visibility and concealment, engage questions of identity within postcolonial and dancehall contexts, pushing against inherited expectations of the Black queer body. [. . .]

For more on the artists, see https://www.bluecurry.com/ and https://www.biennial.com/artists/leasho-johnson/#:of%20Negril

[Shown above: 1) Blue Curry’s J Bar 2.0, 2026 (Image courtesy of the artist); 2) Leasho Johnson’s Perplexity of the Consumed (Anansi #38), 2026 (Image courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim).]