2025 IAC PP - Fighting Fakes in an AI World

Session Description

Market studies of artists living and producing work in the Caribbean archipelago and its diaspora locations lack integrated and sustained attention. For artists who reach six and seven-figure results at auction and private sales, their hard-won path to success is shaped by the dominant culture's acceptance of their differences: Afro-descendent, Indigenous, first language, alternative religious practice, and gender orientation. Where do they fit in? This session will examine the recent market of three contemporary Caribbean/Caribbean American artists from Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. We will explore how these artists speak to the "Caribbean Contemporary" and what factors shape their market attention.

Speaker

Dr. Donna Thompson Ray

Continuing Education

Review of this session recording will award 1.2 CE hour.