Edouard Duval-Carrie

Edouard Duval-Carrie was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1954. He was educated at the University of Loyola Montreal, Quebec, in Canada; and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris in France. Duval- Carrie moved to Miami in 1992 and swiftly established himself as an integral factor in the city’s cultural fabric.Duval-Carrié has presented many solo exhibitions, among those a major one at Perez Art Miami Museum (PAMM) in 2014. His works are part of the collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts; Musee des Art Africains et Oceaniens; Davenport Museum of Art; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida; Musee de Pantheon National Haitien, , Haiti; and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterey. In 2014 he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the Consul General of France. Edouard’s work explores the social and historical aspects of Haitian culture. His imagery includes Voodoo gods combined with aspects of classical mythology and Haiti’s national heroes.