Edouard Duval-Carrié (born Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1954) is an artist, curator, and educator based in Miami, Florida. He emigrated to Puerto Rico as a teenager with his family during the François Duvalier regime. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a BA from Loyola College, Montreal (1978). He also attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France (1988-1989). Duval-Carrié’s work combines his academic training and artistic sensitivity toward the multifaceted identities that form his native Haiti. His mixed media works and installations present migrations and transformations, featuring dense iconography derived from Caribbean history, politics, and religion. Duval-Carrié’s art asks the viewer to question the Western canon, how Africa has shaped the Americas, and how the Caribbean has shaped the modern world. Since 2009, Duval-Carrié has curated Global Caribbean/Borderless Caribbean, a project proposed by the French government and presented with the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance. His curatorial work focuses on the presentation, promotion, and understanding of the visual production of artists from the Caribbean. Duval-Carrié received the inaugural Michael Richards Award (2018), a nomination-based recognition given to a distinguished artist who has sustained their practice in the Miami-Dade area and given back to its community throughout their career.
Celebrate opening day of the Spirit & Strength: Modern Art from Haiti exhibition with artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, whose L’Aesthete Hindu (1992) is a featured painting on view. Duval-Carrié will share about his practice and the many myths and misconceptions of the Haitian art narrative. The presentation will be introduced by Kanitra Fletcher, exhibition curator and associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic Art.
Photograph of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Courtesy of the artist.