Janet Fish: Place in Time in the Butterfield Gallery and Mezzanine Gallery – November 15, 2025 – April 18, 2026
Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is thrilled to announce eminent American painter Janet Fish’s first solo exhibition in the country in which she was raised, Bermuda. This exhibition, which opens to the public on November 15, 2025, is an important survey which will investigate Fish’s particular approach to still life as well as the intersections between her life and painting practice.
Fish has frequently connected her artistic style and vision to her childhood experiences in Bermuda, where she lived from the age of 10. Her grandfather, American Impressionist Clark Greenwood Voorhees, was central to the American artistic community in Bermuda in the early twentieth century while her mother, painter and sculptor Florence Whistler Fish, also had personal and career ties to the island. Fish therefore grew up surrounded not just by the beauty of this isolated Atlantic archipelago but also the splendour of its art and culture, influences which she carried into her career as a professional artist.
KEY DATES AND EVENTS
Exhibition Dates: November 15, 2025 – April 18, 2026
Private Members’ Preview: Friday, November 14, 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Public Opening: Saturday, November 15, 2025, 10am – 4pm
Public Programme with Exhibition Curator Melissa Messina: Saturday, November 15, 2025, 5pm-7:30pm
Janet Fish: Place in Time will highlight the resonances of this, particularly in the rarely acknowledged but ubiquitous presence of subtropical colors, light and iconography throughout her art. Her enchanting still life paintings, which often include colourful textiles, tropical fruits and flowers and scattered seashells, have tantalising connections to diverse subtropical settings and climates; while Bermuda’s dense, layered environment has often been cited by Fish as an influence on her compositions. By highlighting these and other biographical considerations, Janet Fish: Place in Time will not only introduce audiences to this important painter but also show the role of place, time and personal experience in the work of an artist often regarded through a purely formal lens.
Janet Fish: Place in Time is organised by Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in close collaboration with the artist and DC Moore Gallery. International curator Melissa Messina will co-curate the exhibition alongside Masterworks’ Curatorial Researcher Dr Sara Thom.
