I grew up in a Haitian household in Manhattan during the birth of Hip-hop. My diverse cultural experiences are influential factors in my life and art-making practice. Like sampling techniques and storytelling in hip-hop production, I produce visual art images with a nod to advertisement cues; I employ a freewheeling cut-and-paste aesthetic, organizing contemporary material into a compositional narrative design investigating what I perceive in Western culture. The dialogue in my artwork is a sample of historical and current event information coupled with my experiences and perceptions of reality.
Education
M.F.A. Hunter College, NY
B.A. The City College, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2024 The Shape of Things, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
2024 POP!: Art With Mass Appeal, Kay Daugherty Gallery, Solomons, MD
2024 Bibliography: Hudson Valley Artists 2023, The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
2024 From the Ground Up, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2024 Cut and Paste: The Art of Collage, Conversations With Artists, Online Gallery
2023 Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop, Albany Center Gallery, NY
2023 Cause We Be Complicated, A.D.S Gallery & Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2022 Political Storm, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2021 Black Renaissance Exhibit, Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2021 Tell Me A Story, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Publications
Raheim Wilson, “Role With Rah – Tales of an Underground Driver: Volume I”
David Knight and Hugh Willmott, “Organizational Behavior and Management,” Thomson Learning, London (pg. 24)
Bashir, Samiya A. (Editor), Medina, Tony (Editor), Lansana, Quraysh Ali (Editor), “Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature.” (pgs. 161, 205, 500)
Bibliography
Carl Van Brunt, “Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists,” Chronogram
Anne Landi, “Immediacies of the Hand,” Art News v.98, n. May 7 (p. 154)
Holland Cotter, “Immediacies of the Hand,” New York Times: Art and Review, April 9