Edouard Duval-Carrié

Edouard Duval-Carrié (born 1954) is a Haitian-born American contemporary painter and sculptor based in Miami, Florida.

Life Edouard Duval-Carrié was born in Pétion-Ville. His family emigrated to Puerto Rico during the François Duvalier regime, while he was a child. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami, Florida.

Work

Duval-Carrié's art reflects the culture and history of Haiti with references to the Vodou religion. His 1979 work J.C. Duvalier en Folle de Marié (Jean-Claude Duvalier as Mad Bride) is a criticism of the country's controversial leader. He operates in a variety of media: altarpieces, lacquered tiles, and reliquaries in addition to painting and sculpture.

Duval-Carrié's work was exhibited at the "Ouidah '92" festival, which celebrated Vodun art from Benin and the African Diaspora in Ouidah, Benin in February 1993. Duval-Carrié received a South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Art Fellowship in 1995 and a Southern Arts Federation Visual Art Fellowship in 1996.

His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, France, Mexico, and in several states of the United States.

The hand-painted uniforms of Haiti's 2026 Winter Olympics delegation, designed by Stella Jean, are based on a 2006 depiction of a mounted Toussaint Louverture by Carrié. Louverture's image was omitted from the uniform's final iteration due to Olympic regulations prohibiting political symbolism at the games, resulting in the uniforms only showing a charging horse.

Collections Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, Iowa Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida Musée du College St. Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Boca Raton Museum of Art Young At Art Museum, Davie, Florida

Exhibitions March 13, 2014 - Aug. 31, 2014 Edouard Duval-Carrié: Imagined Landscapes, Pérez Art Museum Miami

Publications

Mason, Kara M. (2014). "From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié." Florida: Pérez Art Museum Miami.