Lavar Munroe

b. Nassau, Bahamas 1982).  

Munroe earned a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design (2007). In 2010, He represented the Bahamas at the Liverpool Biennale. He earn a MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), which was immediately followed by tenure at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013). He was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant (2013). In 2014, Munroe was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was later recognized with the Postdoctoral Award of Research Excellence (2015). In 2015, he exhibited in the 56^th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor. He then participated in the 12^th Dakar biennale (2016), curated by Simon N’jami. Munroe was the recipient of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation: THREAD Senegal residency (2017). He was selected for Prospect New Orleans 4 (triennial) curated by Trevor Schoonmaker.  Munroe is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis (2017-18) and is currently an artist in residence at Headlands (2018).

Munroe’s work has been exhibited in institutions such as The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Orlando Museum of Art, the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, the SCAD Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and upcoming at the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI), and The Meadows Museum, among others.   

Munroe lives and works between Nassau Bahamas and Washington DC.