In North America, Caribbean art is already recognized and sought out, e. g. the travelling exhibition Soon Come: the Art of Contemporary Jamaica, 2000 - 2002 in the USA featuring Jamaican artists e. g Cecil Cooper, David Boxer and Milton George.

The biographies and styles of the Caribbean artists are as varied as the different Caribbean islands. Some are graduates of the Edna Manley School for Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica or other formal schools of art. Others are self-taught, painting since childhood and sell at marketplaces or galleries. Some work in the so called "naive" or folkloric style, others realistic, abstract, etc.

Caribbean Art Collection in Berlin uses the caribbean process of cultural identification as its concept and goal by supporting artists from the Caribbean in exposing and selling their art in Europe and sending back a part of the proceeds to its source.