I personally believe that most artists are in one way or another reflections of their immediate surroundings. What they are confronted with on a daily routine is bound to affect and influence their personal visions of the world. This general tendency would simplify my answers to inquiries on the relative importance of popular culture in the context of the contemporary art world. But with the advent of a rapid globalization and the proliferation of information at all levels, this permits everyone, and particularly artists, to take their ideas from a global well.
CV
Born: Haiti, 1954
Education:
1988-89 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts Paris, France
1978 Bachelor of Arts, University of Loyola Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Supplementary studies:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Edouard Duval Carrié: My life as a Tree, Cynergi , Miami Fl.
Memoires Sans Histoire, MIA Galleries, Miami, FL.
2009 Arts in the Garden, Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, Miami Beach, FL.
Mostly Mutants, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL.
Roots & More, Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Holland
2008 Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrie, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL.
Life in North Caribbean, Lyle O. Rytzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Grolsch SwingArt launch party, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL.
2007 Edouard Duval-Carrie Cosmos: Un Petite Restrospective, The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL.
Edouard Duval-Carrie, The Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Divine Revolution: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrie, The Red Gallery at The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
2006 Uprooted, Works on Paper, Installation, Sculpture, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Migration of the Spirit, FIGGE Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Water Spirits, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Divine Revolution The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrie, The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida.
The Voodoo Pantheon, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida.
2004 Displacement, Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 From the Studio to the Museum to the Gallery, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2002 A World In Tears, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2000 Migrations, Miami Art Museum, New Work Gallery, Miami, Florida
Landscapes: Real and Imagined, The Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Recent Works, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, California
1990 Recent Works, Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Miami
Des Migrations sous L’Eau, Generous Miracles Gallery, NY, NY
Recent Works, Lyle O.Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1998 Recent Works, Lakaye Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1997 Recent Works, David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, NY, NY
Spirits, Altars, and Others, Quintana Gallery, Miami, Florida
From the Edge of Paradise, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
1996 Edouard Duval Carrie, Musee du College St. Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1995 Silver Linings, Gutierez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida
1994 Requiem, Gutierez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida
El Jardin Salvaje, Galeria Fernando Quintana, Bogota, Columbia
Recent Works, Lakaye Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Recent Works, Porter Gallery, San Diego, California
1992 Retrospective, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO) Monterrey, Mexico.
1991 Edouard Duval Carrie, Armand Gallery. Paris, France
Edouard Duval Carrie, Melraux Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1987 Edouard Duval Carrie, Brent Gallery, Houston, Texas
Edouard Duval Carrie, Nicole Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1986 Edouard Duval Carrie,Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011 Haiti Royaume de ce Monde, Galerie Agnes B., Paris, France
First Haitian Pavillion at 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Stamplia Querini
Not the Usual Suspects: New Art in Public Places, Art Center, Miami Beach, SouthFlorida
2010 Base Paint, EPIC; Frost Art Museum; and Florida International University in Miami, Florida; Haiti.
Global Caribbean II: Caribbean Trilogy-Focus on the Greater Antilles, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
2009 Global Caribbean I: Focus on the Global Caribbean Landscape, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, Florida; MIAM, Sete, France; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2008 Pieces of the Whole, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
2007 In Your Face, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2006 Big Juicy Paintings (and more): Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
2005 Nepotism, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
2000 Anges et Demons, Halle St Pierre, Paris
1998 Kongo Criollo, Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York.
Edouard Duval Carrie et Lionel St Elol, Benefit for the Schweitzer Hospital, Ramscale Gallery, New York.
Fresque du Souvenir, Unesco project celebrating the Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade. Mural by Edouard Duval Carrie, Franz Zephirin (Haiti), Jose Bedia (Cuba), Diagne Chanel (Senegal), Musee du College St. Pierre, Port au Prince Haiti.
Droits de L’Homme, Utopia, Defl, Realites: Les Createurs Haitians, Museo du College St. Pierre, Port au Prince Haiti.
Caribe, Exclusion, Fragmentacion y Paraiso, Museo Extremeno a Iberamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz and Casa De America, Madrid.
Ekaperyans la Vida: Modern Art from Haiti and Cuba, Lebanon Valley, College of Pennsylvania.
Hatian Art Since 1973, International Arts Club, Chicago.
The Miami Connection, Changing Perception, Museum of African American Art, Tampa, Florida.
1997 Havana Biennial VI, Lee Aides Memoires, Palacio del Segundo, Cabo, Havana, Cuba.
1996 Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Out of Bounds, New Work by Eight Southeast Artists, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia (Cultural Olympiad Celebrations).
Swallowing The Crown: Art and Culture of Haiti in Miami, Miami Dade Community College North Campus, Miami, Florida.
1995 Sacred Arts of Haitian Voodoo, Traveling exhibition at the following venues: UCLA, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Illinois; National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Museum of Natural History, New York, New York.
Masterworks in Haitian Art from the Collection of the Davenport Museum, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa (traveled to Akron, Ohio; Los Museum, Miami, Florida; Naples Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Los Angeles, California)
Caribbean Visions. Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Organized by Art Services International (traveled to Miami, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Hartford, Connecticut).
Premio MARCO, Museo de arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico.
Haitian Artists, The October Gallery, London, Great Britain.
South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship Recipients Exhibition, Boca Museum, Boca Raton, Florida. Gallery, South
Contemporary Expressions of Haitian Art, Ground Level Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
1994 Painting After Nature, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Exodus, Ground Level Gallery, South Florida Art Center.
Eight – Ocho – Huit, Gutierez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida.
1993 Storytelling. The Narrative In Latin America, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
An Encounter Between two Worlds as Seen by Haiti’s Artists, 1492-1992, Organized by Foundation Afrique en Creations (traveling to Haiti, Guadefoupe, Martinique, Spain, Switzeriand, Italy, France, USA).
Future in Retrospective, Gutierez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Artefact, Cultural Center, Soissons, France
Ouidah 93, First International Voodoo Cultures Festival, Ouidah, Benin. Installation at the Dagbo Hou Non’s Temple.
1992 Schwarze Frelhelt in Dialog, Volkerkund Museum Cologne, Germany.
Hommage to Max Ponty, Chaillot Palace, Paris, France.
Myth and Magic in America, The Eighties, Museo de Arte, Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico.
Two Painters, One Island,Brussels, Belgium.
1990 Art Contemporain Haitien, Fine Arts School, Lille, France.
La Revolution Francaise sous les Tropiques, Galerie Nationale, Dakar, Senegal.
1989 La Revolution Francaise sous lea Tropiques, Musee du Pantheon National Haitien,Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
MJC, Avignon, France.
La Revolution Francaise sous les Tropiques, Musee des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, France.
XX Century View of the French Revolution,organized by Association Francaise d’Action Artistique (traveled to Venezuela; Mexico; USA; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Wumbia; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic).
1986 African Currents, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York.
Public Collections:
Africa Museum , Berg en Dal, Holland
Frost Art Museum , Miami, Florida
Lowe Art Museum, Miami Florida
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale , Fort Lauderdale Florida
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Musee des Art Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, France
Musee de Pantheon National Haitien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
The College for Human Services, Now York, Now York
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Musée du College St Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Awards:
1996 Southern Arts Federation Visual Art Fellowship
1995 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Art Fellowship
Public Commissions:
2010 Art in Public Places: Aventura Cultural Arts Center Floor, City of Aventura,Florida
2005 One Miami Riverwalk, The Lady of Miami, Miami Florida
1996 Art in Public Places: Commission for the Jefferson Reaves Rehabilitative and Health Center, Miami, Florida.
Monographs:
1997 Sullivan, Edward J., “Sacred Migrations: Recent Painting and Sculptures by Edouard Duval Carrie”, exhibition catalog Spirits, Altars and Others, published Ouintana Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1996 Alexis, Gerald and Michele Frisch, Edouard Duval Carrie Musee du College St. Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Quintana, Bogota, Columbia. 1992 Merewether, Charles. Edouard Duval-Carrie Retrospective, Museo de Arte Contemporanso de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico.