Asser Saint-Val

Asser Saint-Val (born 1974, in Port-de-Paix, Haiti) is a Haitian-American artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores identity, spirituality, neuromelanin, and the subconscious through immersive, sensorial forms. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, design, and occasionally music, Saint-Val examines the psychic and symbolic dimensions of Blackness through surreal visual language, interactive environments, and materially layered compositions.  Saint-Val earned BFAs in painting and graphic design from the New World School of the Arts and the University of Florida in 2004. His work often engages spirituality, magic, bodily presence, and self-construction, using painting, sculptural form, installation, and public art to consider how identity is experienced beyond the visible surface. Institutional and artist sources consistently describe his practice as rooted in experiential and interactive structures that invite viewers into psychological and symbolic space.  His work has been exhibited throughout South Florida, New York, Washington, D.C., and across the Caribbean, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Grenada, and Aruba. He has also developed public art projects in Miami-Dade County and is represented in collections including the Rubell Family Collection and Art in Public Places. Asser Saint-Val lives and works in Miami, Florida.