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Roland Saint Hubert - Biography and Works for Sale Roland Saint Hubert ( Haitian, born 1951 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Roland St. Hubert was born on December 29, 1951, in Port-au-Prince. He attended the Lycee Petion, and then the Lycee Toussaint Louverture. He became interested in art as a young boy, and started to paint in earnest in his early 20’s, under the tutelage of his uncle Emmanuel Ducasse. He was also influenced by the works of the Saint Soleil group. His work is much sought after by collectors of Haitian art worldwide. Exhibitions 2010, "Haiti Rising: Selections from the Stanley Popiel and Ingrid Feddersen Collection of Eastern Connecticut State University Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Yves Jn Baptiste - Biography and Works for Sale Yves Jn Baptiste ( Haitian, ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Dieudonne Cedor - Biography and Works for Sale Dieudonne Cedor ( Haitian, 1925 - 2010 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next He joined the Centre d' Art in December 1947. At the "Centre d' Art," he worked under the supervision of Rigaud Benoit who thought him the elementary principals of pictorial art. He became a teacher the following year. Dewitt Peters, founder of Centre d' Art, made him chief of the studio. Later he became a member/founder of the "Foyer des Arts Plastiques" In 1957, he was named director of the museum of Beaux-Arts of Port au Prince. In 1953, Cedor received the Labor Department Exhibition Prize and in 1957, the Grand Work Prize of the Haitian Office of Tourism. He exhibited globally. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Francois Chery - Biography and Works for Sale Francois Chery ( Haitian ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Francois Chery is a contemporary Haitian artist whose work has garnered attention for its vibrant depiction of Haitian life and culture. He is noted for his acrylic paintings, which often showcase scenes rich with color and texture, reflecting the daily experiences and spirit of Haitian communities. His style draws upon the vivid and symbolic traditions of Haitian art, embracing themes related to folklore, spirituality, and the natural beauty of the country. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Gerard Valcin - Biography and Works for Sale Gerard Valcin ( Haitian, 1925 - 1988 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Gerard Valcin was born to poor parents in 1925 in Port-au-Prince. His father was an artist who started Valcin painting when he was 22. Valcin worked as a tile-setter until he joined the Centre d'Art in 1950 with the encouragement of Dewitt Peters. He is credited with bringing his half-brother Pierre-Joseph Valcin to the Centre in the early 1960's. He is the uncle of Favrange Valcin, who paints under the name Valcin II. Several artists, including Madsen Mompremier, Dieudonne Rouanez, and Louis Joseph, have studied with him. Valcin is considered one of the most significant of Haiti's second generation painters along with Wilmino Domond and André Pierre . He died May 15, 1988. Exhibits 2012 Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. Nottingham Contemporary Permanent Collections Musee d'Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre, Port-au-Prince The Milwaukee Museum of Art The Waterloo Museum of Art, Iowa Published in Haiti: Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988), Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), Island on Fire (Demme, 1997), Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990). Stebich, Ute. A Haitian Celebration: Art and Culture. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992 http://www.haitianarthopkins.com/ValcinG.htm Farquharson, Alex and Leah Gordon Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou. 2012. Nottingham Contemporary. Nottingham, England. Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Alexis, Gerald 2000 Peintres Haïtiens Editions Cercle d’Art Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Andre Pierre - Biography and Works for Sale Andre Pierre ( Haitian, 1914 - 2005 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next André Pierre was born in around 29 July 1914 Port-au-Prince. In 1930, he moved to Croix-des-Missions, on the outskirts of the capital, with an uncle which was a farmer and an active vodou practitioner. Here in about 1947 he was introduced to American writer film-maker Maya Deren, who had admired his temple wall paintings. She introduced Pierre to the Centre d' Art. His paintings are characterized by vivd colors and rich symbolism reflecting Vodou Loas, rituals and mythology. His work is seen as a bridge between religious practise and visual storytelling. Andre Pierre is regarded as one of Haiti's most iconic artists. Permanent collections: Davenport Museum in Iowa Milwaukee Museum of Art Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, and Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Calixte Henri - Biography and Works for Sale Calixte Henri ( Haitian, 1933 - 2010 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Calixte Henry was born in Port-au-Prince on January 3, 1933. Henri's father was a mechanical engineer in the navy, his mother a dressmaker. He completed primary and secondary school at Lycée Pétion. He worked several years as a telegraph operator. Henri joined the Art Center in 1955 and remained there until 1959. He started painting professionally in 1958. He worked with Galerie Monnin. He won special mention from the Guggenheim Foundation (n.d.) in New York. Published in: Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan. Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Levoy Exil - Biography and Works for Sale Levoy Exil ( Haitian, born 1944 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Levoy Exil is one of the most prominent artist and co- founder of the Saint Soleil Art movement. Revealed to the world by Andre' Malraux in 1975, the art movement becomes world famous. Levoy Exil is one of Seldon Rodman' s favorite painters and he dedicates large part of a chapter of his book "Where Art is Joy" to the artist. Levoy paintings are abstract and surrealistic, throughout dots, lines and intense colors the Loas and Spirits are disclosed. "I reveal the forms, colors and lines of the Loas, figures with slanted eyes and long arms, who guide and protect us. They inspire my art. I depict an invisible world where doves, spirits and stars form a colorful mosaic representing the connection between the real and the spiritual, the fecundity of Nature, the conciliation of the soul and the body. The spirits of the Sun have entrusted me with a mission. My art highlights the timelessness and the immortality of life.”- Levoy Exil Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Prospere Pierre Louis - Biography and Works for Sale Prospere Pierre Louis ( Haitian 1947 - 1997 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Prospere Pierre-Louis was born in Bainet, in the south of Haiti, on October 12, 1947. Prosper followed Maude Robard to the community at Soisson-la-Montagne on the mountain above La Boule where he co-founded "Saint Soleil" with Tiga and Louisianne Saint-Fleurant. When “Saint-Soleil” disbanded, Pierre-Louis organized the group, “Cinq Soleils” with Levoy Exil, Denis Smith, Dieuseul Paul and Louisiane Saint Fleurant. One of his paintings was featured on the cover of the 1984 Port-Au-Prince telephone directory. (CPA) Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Jasmin Joseph - Biography and Works for Sale Jasmin Joseph ( Haitian, 1924 - 2005 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Jasmin Joseph, born 23 November 1923, in Grande Riviere in northern Haiti, was working in a brick factory and sculpting in clay when his work was noticed by American sculptor Jason Seeley an American sculptor who partnered with Dewitt Peters – a watercolorist — to establish the Centre D’Art in Port-au-Prince. Encouraged by Seeley, he joined the Centre d' Art in 1948 where he practiced sculpture and painting. In the early 1950s he contributed to a mural depicting "The Stations of the Cross" and created a choir screen of open-sculpted terra cotta for the Episcopal Cathedral of Ste Trinité. [Destroyed in the earthquake of January 2010.] He abandoned sculpture after finding that unauthorized molds had been made of some of his terra cotta work and copies were being sold to profit the thief. He painted exclusively after that. Jasmin Joseph died in 2005. Permanent Collections: Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, Iowa Musée d'Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre, Port-au-Prince The Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa Milwaukee Museum of Art The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut New Orleans Museum of Art. Published in: [na]. The Naive Tradition: Haiti . Milwaukee Art Center, 1974. Demme, Jonathan. Island on Fire . Kaliko Press, 1997. Material Culture. Direct From The Eye: The Jonathan Demme Collection of Self-Taught Art . Philadelphia, 2014. Rodman, Selden. The Miracle of Haitian Art . New York, 1974. -. Where Art is Joy . New York, 1988. Stebich, Ute. Haitian Art . The Brooklyn Museum, 1978. -. A Haitian Celebration . Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992. Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Augustin Pierrot (Apier) - Biography and Works for Sale Augustin Pierrot (Apier) ( Haitian, born 1976 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More

Pierre Joseph Valcin - Biography and Works for Sale Pierre Joseph Valcin ( Haitian, 1925 - 2000 ) Discover More: Explore Our Curated Showcase or Browse Our Full Haitian Art Gallery Previous Next Pierre-Joseph Valcin (sometimes listed as Pierre Joseph) was born in Port-au-Prince in 1925-7 (exact year unknown). His father was a bus driver and his mother a seamstress. Valcin was raised by the mother of painter Gerard Valcin. He worked as a mechanic, a stone mason, and a plumber before becoming a painter. Valcin began to paint after he was introduced to the Centre d’Art by his half-brother, the late painter Gerard Valcin, in 1959. He joined the center in 1966. Gerard Valcin instructed Pierre-Joseph for his first year at the Centre d’Art. He is the father of painters Favrance Valcin and 'Valcin II.' Valcin is considered one of the most significant of Haiti's second generation painters. Permanent Collections Musée d’Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince The Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa The Waterloo Museum of Art, Iowa The New Orleans Museum of Art Published in Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988) Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990) Haiti: Actualities and Belief (Roche, 1990) Island on Fire (Demme, 1997). Stebich, Ute. A Haitian Celebration: Art and Culture. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992 Alexis, Gerard 2000 Peintres Haitiens Paris Editions Cercle d’Art Famous Works Click on painting for purchasing information View More