Vickie Pierre

Vickie Pierre (born in Brooklyn, New York) is a Haitian-American multimedia artist whose practice explores self-identity, femininity, dream states, mythology, and the cultural politics that shape Black diasporic experience. Working across painting, collage, works on paper, mixed media, and installation, Pierre examines psychological interiority, transformation, and ornamentation through anthropomorphic forms, layered decorative surfaces, and surreal visual language drawn from personal and diasporic memory.  Pierre earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997. Her work often engages Haitian and Yoruba mythologies, fantasy, memory, and gendered representation, using pattern, glitter, decorative paper, and richly layered compositions to consider vulnerability, resilience, and the porous boundary between the sacred, the subconscious, and the bodily. Institutional and artist profiles describe her practice as one shaped by both deeply personal symbolism and broader diasporic cultural histories.  Her work has been exhibited at Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Bass Museum of Art, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Habitation Clément in Martinique, and the International Museum of Modest Arts in France. She received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award in 2017, was a finalist for the Orlando Museum of Art’s Florida Prize in Contemporary Art in 2019, and in 2023 was selected by the Art in Embassies Program for display at the U.S. Embassy in Prague. Vickie Pierre lives and works in Vero Beach, Florida.