Lavar Munroe

Bahamian-born artist Lavar Munroe’s work has been described as a hybrid medium between painting and relief sculpture. He often incorporates sentimental objects collected and gifted from his family along with objects found during his travel, focusing on themes such as journey, utopia, magic, love, and the celebration of escape through fantastical and dreamlike imagery. He is co-representing the Bahamas at the 2026 Venice Biennale and is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Munroe has exhibited work in the Bahamas, Belgium, France, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and more. Following his time at WashU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has had residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Headlands Center for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, and more. Munroe lives and works between Baltimore, Maryland, and Nassau, Bahamas. He earned his BFA at Savannah College of Art and Design and his MFA at WashU, which awarded him a Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award in 2024.