The Sugar Mill Museum of Contemporary Art is a curatorial platform and site-nonsite museum in St. James, Jamaica that aims to challenge norms and expectations of art exhibiting and art production, distribution, consumption broadly. SMMoCA promotes art accessibility and its freedoms from market influence, hosting exhibitions locally and remotely with contemporary artists, curators and arts organizations.

SMMoCA’s primary site is an abandoned 18th century limestone building situated within a nature reserve and a nearby residence both located in the north-west coast hills of Jamaica. The region was initially inhabited by the Taino (Arawak) people who arrived from South America in 600 AD and named the island "Xaymaca," followed by Spanish colonization after 1494, and British colonization in 1655. St. James was home to musicians Max Romeo and Jimmy Cliff and Right Excellent Sam Sharpe, leader of the 1831–32 Christmas Rebellion that led to the liberation of Jamaica and abolition of slavery in 1834, thirty one years before the United States. Nearby are Cinnamon Hill, the former residence of musician Johnny Cash and Rose Hall, the home of Annie Palmer.

SMMoCA exhibitions have explored site, cultural context, memory, and spaces that shape art and identity. Some exhibitions are anachronistic and others do not address site but exist in a space of ideas including fictions. The Sugar Mill Museum of Contemporary Art exists for curatorial experimentation, for artists to experiment with work and for audiences to experiment with taste, outside of commercial dictates.