Annalee Davis (b. 1963, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a visual artist, writer, educator, and cultural instigator whose hybrid practice engages with biography, history, and ecology through drawing, installation, video, and land-based intervention. Her work explores the ongoing legacy of plantation economies in the Caribbean and the ways these histories continue to shape contemporary landscapes, identities, and cultural memory. Davis’s studio is located on a former 17th-century sugarcane plantation, now a working dairy farm, where she activates the land as both a site of research and a collaborator in rethinking historical narratives.
She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and an MFA from Rutgers University. In 2011 she founded Fresh Milk, a cultural platform and residency program in Barbados supporting emerging Caribbean artists. She is also co-founder of Caribbean Linked and Tilting Axis, networks for regional and diasporic artistic exchange. Between 2016 and 2018, she served as Caribbean Arts Manager with the British Council and has taught at the Barbados Community College.
Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions including Spirit in the Land (Nasher Museum of Art and Pérez Art Museum Miami), In the Sugar Gardens, Self as Plot, As Land Remembers, and And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? in Vienna. She has held residencies at Delfina Foundation in London and developed new work in collaboration with Focus Foundation in Girona, Spain, for the 2023 Sharjah Biennale. Across her practice, Davis explores the intersections of cultural repair, plant knowledge, and embodied memory as strategies for living within and beyond the post-plantation Caribbean.