M. Florine Démosthène

M. Florine Démosthène (born 1971, in New York) is a Haitian-American artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores Black womanhood, spirituality, migration, intimacy, memory, and the layered experience of diasporic identity. Working across painting, collage, drawing, installation, and performance-based image making, Démosthène examines embodiment, transformation, and emotional interiority through richly textured compositions, symbolic figuration, and immersive visual worlds shaped by dream, ritual, and personal mythology.  Démosthène earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her work often engages migration, Black femininity, spiritual inheritance, and the psychic lives of women, using layered mark-making, collage, color, and figuration to consider vulnerability, resilience, desire, and the ways bodies carry both history and possibility. Sources also note that she has lived and worked across New York, Haiti, and at times Ghana, which informs the diasporic and transnational dimensions of her practice.  Her work has been exhibited at the SCAD Museum of Art, Mariane Ibrahim, Gallery 1957, the Phillips Collection, and the Frist Art Museum, among other venues in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center and is based in New York and Tulsa, Oklahoma.