Heino Schmid is a Bahamian multi-media artist working in a variety of disciplines that drive his creative process of visual deconstruction and cultural analysis. Working primarily in iterations of charcoal on paper, Schmid’s gestural drawings focus on the nuances of posture, relation, and reduction. As an observer, Schmid pulls from remembered gestures as a primary visual vocabulary. The figures in the work are a compilation of moments, interactions, and idiosyncrasies from those in his immediate space creating a sense of familiarity between the subject and the viewer. Schmid’s three-dimensional and installation works are composed of objects from the landscape and detritus. Once again pulling from his immediate space, the objects that appear and reappear throughout his oeuvre become a visual language that shifts in translation.
Heino Schmid (b. 1976, Nassau, The Bahamas) completed his MA in Fine Arts from Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design in The Netherlands in 2006. A founding member of POPOPStudios, Schmid emphasizes collaboration and the activation of space throughout his practice. These collaborations usually surmount into exhibitions such as ShowOff with Tessa Whitehead in London, UK. Schmid exhibited with POPOPStudios at VoltaNY in 2014. Schmid has participated in exhibitions throughout the Caribbean region, most notably, Out of Place curated by the art collective Alice Yard in Trinidad. He recently participated with Alice Yard at documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany. He is currently an associate professor at the University of The Bahamas.