Lavar Munroe (b. Nassau, Bahamas, 1982) is a Bahamian-American artist,[1] working primarily in painting,[2] cardboard sculptural installations,[3] and mixed media drawings.
Lavar Munroe was born November 19, 1982, in Nassau, Bahamas where he resided in the community of Grants Town[6] until age 21.
In 2015, Munroe's work was featured in All the World's Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor as part of the 56th Venice Biennale.
[13] In April 2016, Munroe's ten-year survey SON OF THE SOIL debuted at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas[14] as the largest retrospective to date of Munroe's art, which spanned the artist's 10 years of work (2008-2018) and included nearly 50 original paintings, sculpture and drawings.
[23] Human Zoo In 2014, Munroe was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.