Bio

Llanor Alleyne is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of inversion, fragmentation, and reconstruction through collage, illustration, and abstract painting. Rooted in an intuitive process of tearing, cutting, and layering, her compositions interrogate the intersections of femininity, nature, and personal history. Influenced by her lived experiences in Barbados, the UK, and the US, Llanor’s practice bridges cultural narratives, environmental concerns, and the emotional resonance of form and texture.

With a professional background as a content strategist and director, Llanor brings a distinct editorial sensibility to her work, treating each composition as a layered narrative. Her approach to image-making is informed by a career spent distilling complex ideas into compelling visual and written storytelling. This fusion of analytical and creative perspectives allows her to craft pieces that are both conceptually rigorous and deeply emotive.

Llanor has exhibited her work in solo and group shows across the US and Barbados, including at New York's Leslie Lohman Museum where she completed the Colin Robinson Residency in 2024. Her practice continues to evolve through material experimentation, digital media integration, and an ongoing exploration of the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

Llanor is represented by New York’s Tourné Gallery.

Artist Statement

Llanor Alleyne’s collages and illustrations explore the tension between metaphorical and physical inversion, using tearing, cutting, and layering to shape abstract, figurative, and floral forms. Through this process, she interrogates the intricate, empathetic connections between femininity and nature, while simultaneously evoking the emotional disruptions that pulse beneath the surface.

Inspired by both her immediate environment and imagined landscapes, Llanor constructs abstract paintings and drawings on mylar and paper, which serve as the foundation for her collages. These ephemeral “first works” act as a visual language—dictating form, structure, and movement within her compositions. Their lines, colors, and curves reemerge across multiple works, threading shared DNA between fragmented figures and layered silhouettes. In the final evolution of her process, lone female forms take shape, their presence imbued with both vulnerability and quiet defiance.

Exhibitions

2024 The Plural of He, Group Exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Museum (March 15 - June 15, 2024)
2020 Fugitive Ecologies, Solo Exhibition, Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, (October 5 - November 15, 2020)
2019 Another Point of View, Group Exhibition, Embassy of Barbados, Washington, D.C. (May - September 2019)
2019 Immigrant: Sculptures and Paintings by Ancel Daniel, Curator, Embassy of Argentina, Barbados (May 2019)
2018 6 for a 9, Exhibition with Ronald Williams, Morningside Gallery, Punch Creative Media, Barbados (October 2018)
2018 Manchas & Collages, Exhibition with Poli Baum, Embassy of Argentina, Barbados (September - October 2018)
2018 Artistic Interventions, Group Exhibition, Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Bridgetown, Barbados
2018 Enclothed Cognition Collaborative Kimono, Group Exhibition, Koorkappen en designs FASHIONCLASH, Bonnefantenmuseum: Maastricht, Netherlands
2018  Enclothed Cognition Collaborative Kimono, Group Exhibition, Showroom Limburg, Cube Design Museum, Kerkrade, Netherlands
2017 PRIZM Art Fair, Universal Belonging Group Show, Miami, FL.
2017 Carifesta XIII, Expressions Group Show, Barbados
2017 MoCADA Museum, My Collection Group Show & Auction, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Written in the Body, Solo Exhibition, Frame & Art Co., Barbados
2016 Quaternary, Group Show, Gallerie NuEdge, Barbados
2012 10 Squared: 100 Ways of Looking at the World, Group Show, LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY
2012 Living Color, Group Show, Casa Frela Gallery, New York, NY

Publications and Interviews

2024 The Plural of He created by Andil Gosine
2024 Small Axe Salon, “Another Poem” with Anton Nimblett
2023 Patchwork: Essays and Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture by Jacqueline Bishop
2022 The Guard: An Intervention at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society with Nyugen Smith
2022 Art and Biodiversity with Dr Sonia Peters (video)
2021 “Llanor Alleyne: Exploring Femininity”, Visionary Art Collective Interview
2020 Sprouting Up in a New City: A conversation between Marsha Pearce and Llanor Alleyne
2016 Killens Review of Arts & Letters with Clarence Reynolds

Residencies

2022-24 Leslie-Lohman Museum: Colin Robinson Archive Project and Exhibition

Commissions

2024-25 University of Toronto, Dr Tonya Haynes & Dr Nicole Charles, Sugar Made Us Free? Diabetes and the Afterlife of Slavery in Barbados: Art, Archive & the Gendered Dimensions of Risk, Tea & Empathy, 30in x 44in mixed media collage
2023 Illustrator of Yabisi Guada Adult and Children Coloring Books in collaboration with the Bio-cultural Education and Research Programme
2022 Nature’s Wild: Queering Cane large-scale collage to accompany launch of Dr Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean
2021 Kemi Alabi & Graywolf Press, Book Cover Licensing of “Seraphina” for Alabi’s poetry collection, Against Heaven
2020 Pop-Up Magazine, Issue in a Box, “Okra” Collage for seed coaster design
2018 Esther Alix, Writer, Book Cover Design, Original Branding Logo and Materials
2018 Treasure Beach Hotel, Barbados: "Celine" and 32 first edition prints of "Juhanah"
2017 Fairmont Royal Pavilion, Barbados: 32 first edition prints of "Luce Marie" and 32 first edition prints of "Scrap Museum: No. 11"
2016 IDA Publishing Brand Logo: "Evangeline"
2013 Rashida & Zaria Book Cover by Esther Alix: Four original illustrations
2011 Marie Jean & Friends large-scale collage for Private Collector

Collaborations

2021-25 Nature’s Wild with Dr Andil Gosine, Nature’s Wild: Queering Cane, a 4-ft collage currently touring with the exhibition
2019 Immigrant: Sculptures and Paintings by Ancel Daniel, Catalogue Editor with Dominic Skeete of IDZN
2017 The Guard: An Intervention at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society with Nyugen Smith
2016 Enclothed Cognition (Kimono pattern design) with Mark King and Noir Near Future