Amanda Coulson

Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer on both sides of the Atlantic, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribbean. As an art critic and curator, she noted a lack of platforms for galleries representing emerging art and, with three other partners in 2005, founded the VOLTA fairs, which have taken place annually in New York and Basel for the last 15 years and for which she was Executive Director until 2012 and Artistic Director until 2019. She returned to her home in The Bahamas to take up the position of Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), where she focuses on increasing international awareness of the contemporary Caribbean art scene and expanding the capacity and reach of the NAGB through a rigorous combination of capital works, collaborative projects and the building of strong inter-island and international networks.