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Yermine
aka @popcaribe (Dominican Republic 1985)
Yermine Richardson (La Romana, 1985. Lives and works in Barcelona) is an artist and graphic creative from the Dominican diaspora who works across a multiplicity of mediums, including photography, installation, performance, and painting. Drawing from pop culture and futurism, his work explores the aesthetics of a contemporary Afro-Caribbean visuality. This is expressed through forms, chromatics, urban fashions, popular oral traditions, and the updating of Afro-diasporic imaginaries and religiosities, as well as the worldviews of pre-colonial Caribbean identities anchored to the territory and the shifting social circumstances of the 21st century. His poetics exalt Afro-descendant pride and modernize practices and traditions where the Black body becomes a presence with agency, and Black beauty serves as a political act of self-affirmation.
- Suset Sánchez Sánchez
Curator, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 “Caribbean Galaxy” – Potassi K19 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2021 “Inagotables” – Alliance Française, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2024 “Garden of Disobedience” – Candy, Barcelona, Spain
2025 – “Caribbean Days” – Maison de l'Amerique Latine, Paris, FranceGroup Exhibitions:
2016 – Santo Domingo Art Biennial Selected: “Inagotables” – Painting - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2023 – Santo Domingo Art Biennial Selected: “Voladoras” – installation - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2024 – “Black is Africa” – Espai Mil Nou, Reus, Spain
2025 – Dominican Art Festival – Barcelona, Spain
2025 – “Danza de Color” – Villa Campolieto, Naples, Italy
2025 – “The 8th Day” – C6 gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2025 – “Caribbean Days” – Steigenberger Wiltcher's, Bruxelles, Belgique
2025 – “Colores de Esperanza” – Vatican City, The Vatican
2026 – "Muro de la Sed" - Installation - Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes 29 - Centro León, Santiago, Dominican RepublicPublic and Institutional Commissions:
2021 – “WE COME IN PEACE”
UK City of Culture – Coventry, United Kingdom
installation commissioned by the UK government
2021 – “The New Faces of Barcelona”
Installation and performance commissioned by BICD Culture\LAB
Barcelona International Community Day – Maritime Museum of BarcelonaPerformance:
2022 – Apagón – Potassi K19 Gallery, Barcelona
2024 – Apagón – Candy, BarcelonaBrand Collaborations:
2019 – Carolina Herrera – Commissioned illustrations
2020 – Bacardí – Commissioned illustrations
2021 – Bacardí – Commissioned illustrations
2021 – Smartify – VR experience
2024 – London Migration Film Festival – Poster IllustrationPublications:
Elle Decor, Marie Claire US, Essence, METROPOLIS, KALTBLUT Magazine, Ritmo Social,
Revista Aldaba, Saatchi Art, NPQ magazine, TV3, DOMINICANA CREATIVA (Book)
Artist Studio - Barcelona, Spain
@POPCARIBE is a visual research project delving into Caribbean identity and memory through the interplay of light, color, and shape. Its artworks feature human figures with piercing gazes, serving as anchors of collective memory and weaving stories of migration, freedom, and resilience.
The project is inspired by childhood sensory experiences in the Dominican Republic: long blackouts would turn the night into a canvas of stars, while the souvenir shops at the resorts where the artist's mother worked introduced vibrant colors, forms, and techniques that sparked creative wonder. These childhood memories are transformed into a pictorial language of dark backgrounds illuminated by vivid colors, evoking constellations of hidden energies and recollections. In this way, a space is created where the everyday, the mythical, and the futuristic blend together, echoing the swift, repetitive techniques of Caribbean art.
Blending elements from the global pop culture of the '90s like iconic anime such as Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Dragon Ball Z, along with video games and TV shows, creates a visual framework that fuses Caribbean tradition with modern-day imagery.
Local cultural symbols, such as the ceiba tree or the casual greeting “KLK,” bring together Taíno deities and chiefs with the complexities of contemporary life. This approach offers a visual exploration of identity, memory, and culture as ever-evolving, multidimensional phenomena. Light, color, and storytelling combine to form an aesthetic laboratory where perception and imagination merge within a constantly shifting Caribbean universe.
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