Lionel Saint Eloi

St. Eloi was born in 1950 in Port-au-Prince. He began painting in1972, at which time he joined the Centre d’Art.  He is a product of the art movement known as "Poto-Mitan" where he painted, played music and danced. In the 1990s he moved more toward sculpture using aluminum and found materials.  He is one of the more eccentric and interesting Haitian artists.

Permanent Collections

Musée d’Art Haitien

Ramapo College (NJ)

The New Orleans Museum of Art

Published in

Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988)

Haiti: Actualities and Belief (Roche, 1990)

Island on Fire (Demme, 1997).