We had prepared a version of this post back in March 2025, when we were sharing news on Caribbean artists participating in the 2026 Biennale di Venezia (and—oops—left it unpublished). Thanks to Susan Mains, commissioner of the Grenada Pavilion, we were able to expand that previous post, La Biennale di Venezia 2026 & Representation from the Caribbean Region, to add that the pavilion— showing work by Edward Bowen, Arthur Daniel, Josine Dupont, Alexandra Kordas, Lilo Nido and Chris Mast, The Holzwege Group, and Russel Watson— was titled “The Poetics of Correspondence” and centered on “a reflective mode of cross-cultural dialogue.” The Biennale will continue through November 22, 2026. There’s still plenty of time to visit! [Also see our recent post, “A landscape of correspondences by Edward Bowen,” a review by Valentina Minniti for Now Grenada.] Here we share Bowen’s brief description from the Grenada Pavilion/Biennale site with one of our favorites, his “Homage to Frank Lloyd Wright.”
Edward Bowen
B. 1963, Trinidad. Lives and Works in Trinidad
Edward Bowen is a Caribbean artist based in Trinidad, recognized for his abstract and large-scale paintings as well as his finely detailed drawings. His work explores themes of identity, memory, and the layered histories of the Caribbean through expressive color, texture, and form. Bowen’s bold abstractions often bridge the personal and the collective, evoking emotional resonance and cultural reflection.
After his art studies at Croydon College of Design and Technology in the UK, he returned to Trinidad. A participant in major international exhibitions, including the São Paulo Bienal, he continues to contribute significantly to the evolving narrative of Caribbean contemporary art.
Simon Lee writes about Bowen’s work, “And while the Caribbean is inextricably entangled with Western discourse and has produced postmodern analysis of culture –notably Antonio Benitez-Rojo’s The Repeating Island, Caribbean theory like Caribbean new knowledge is (must by definition) be generated here, which is the centre, rather than from a distant metropolis, which is peripheral to our purposes.”
Bowen’s work magnifies this.
Source: https://grenadavenice.org/edward-bowen/
For more on his work, see www.edwardbowen.com
[Shown above: Edward Bowen’s “Homage to Frank Lloyd Wright.”]