Tavares Strachan was born in 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas. After studying painting and
liberal arts at both College of the Bahamas in Nassau and at Brown, he received a BFA
from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied glass, and an MFA in
sculpture from Yale University. Recurring themes in Strachan’s work include invisibility, displacement (both physical and metaphorical), and the capacity of both persons and
matter to withstand inhospitable environments. Aeronautical and astronomical science, deep-sea exploration, and extreme climatology are but some of the thematic arenas out
of which Strachan creates monumental performative allegories that tell of cultural displacement, human aspiration, and mortal limitation.