1. Alexandra Antoine

Alexandra Antoine is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist and cultural apprentice based in Chicago. Her work draws from Haitian culture, portraiture, food, farming, language, memory, ritual, and traditional artistic practices of the African diaspora. Working across collage, portraiture, farming, and community-centered practices, Antoine treats art as a way to honor cultural labor, ancestral knowledge, and embodied forms of making.

Featured exhibition: ReLeaf Print, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, October 11, 2025–October 4, 2026. Developed in collaboration with the Lawndale Pop Up Spot, the exhibition presents the results of a month-long North Lawndale community printmaking project in which residents created relief prints inspired by nature-based specimens from the museum, connecting environmental education, printmaking, and community engagement with artists Saúl Aguirre, Alexandra Antoine, Rayshawn Nowlin, and Jesús Oviedo.

Keep up with her:
Website: alexandraantoine.com
‍Instagram: @alexandra.antoine

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2. Stina Baudin

Stina Baudin is a Haitian-Canadian artist and scholar working primarily through textiles, weaving, research, and material experimentation. Based between Canada and the United States, Baudin’s work explores Black culture, geography, mythology, storytelling, data, text, archives, and architectural forms.

Featured exhibition: La clarté creuse les montagnes, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, February 7–May 17, 2026. The exhibition brings together contemporary artists working through material research, vulnerability, resistance, and poetic forms of transformation. Baudin’s inclusion offers a timely view into her textile-based research practice.

Keep up with her:
Website: stinabaudin.com
‍Instagram: @ssteenaa

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3. Widline Cadet

Widline Cadet is a Haitian-born visual artist whose practice is rooted in photography and expands into video, sound, sculpture, performance, and installation. Her work centers Black diasporic life through themes of migration, memory, belonging, displacement, family history, and the fragile act of reconstructing home across place and time.

Featured exhibition: Currents 40: Widline Cadet, Milwaukee Art Museum, May 8–August 9, 2026. The exhibition marks Cadet’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States and presents her nearly decade-long project Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) through photography, video, family snapshots, and installation.

Keep up with her
‍Website: widlinecadet.com

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4. Myrlande Constant

Myrlande Constant is one of Haiti’s most important contemporary textile artists, known for monumental beaded and sequin-embellished works rooted in drapo Vodou traditions. Her practice has transformed the language of Haitian sacred textile art, expanding it into major contemporary art contexts while maintaining deep ties to Vodou symbolism, storytelling, ritual, and spiritual imagination.

Featured exhibition: A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place, Taichung Art Museum, Taichung, Taiwan, December 13, 2025–April 12, 2026. The museum’s inaugural exhibition features Constant’s La Sirène, presenting her reimagining of Vodou flag art from a female perspective within a global exhibition on land, nature, coexistence, mythology, migration, and storytelling.

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5. Woody De Othello

Woody De Othello is a Miami-born artist of Haitian descent known for emotionally charged ceramic, bronze, wood, and mixed-media sculptures that transform everyday objects into vessels of memory, spirit, and interior life. Fans, clocks, phones, mirrors, and household forms become animated presences in his work, suggesting the emotional and spiritual energy held by domestic objects.

Featured exhibition: Woody De Othello: coming forth by day, Pérez Art Museum Miami, November 13, 2025–June 28, 2026. The exhibition is De Othello’s first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Miami and features new ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large-scale bronze exploring the relationship between body, earth, and spirit.

Keep up with him:
‍Instagram: @woodyothello

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6. M. Florine Démosthène

M. Florine Démosthène is a Haitian-American visual artist whose work spans painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Born in the United States and raised between Port-au-Prince and New York, Démosthène creates layered figurative works that explore the body, spirit, migration, hybridity, mythology, and the psychic weight of belonging across places.

Her work often centers Black female figures who appear suspended between worlds: earthly and spiritual, visible and unseen, rooted and in motion. Drawing from Haitian and West African spiritual traditions, Démosthène uses glitter, translucent surfaces, fragmented forms, and dreamlike imagery to imagine the body as a vessel of memory, transformation, and divine possibility.

Featured exhibition: M. Florine Démosthène and Didier William: What the Body Carries, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, January 31–May 4, 2025. The exhibition brought together figurative paintings, collages, and sculptures by Démosthène and Didier William to explore Haitian-American identity, immigrant experience, hybrid belonging, and the ways the body carries memory, heritage, and spiritual inheritance.

Keep up with her:
‍Website: florinedemosthene.com
‍Instagram: @florinedemosthene

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7. Mark Fleuridor

Mark Fleuridor is a Haitian-American artist born and raised in Miami whose practice moves across painting, quilting, collage, patternmaking, and performance. His work often begins with personal history, family memory, Haitian background, and religious experience, using layered materials to explore intimacy, kinship, inheritance, and the stories embedded in domestic life.

Featured exhibition: Suns & Shadows, Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami, November 14, 2025–February 28, 2026. Curated by Roscoè B. Thické III, the exhibition features Miami artists of Black diasporic lineage and explores memory, heritage, creative inheritance, and legacy. 

Keep up with him:
‍Instagram: @markfleuridor

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8. Frantz Patrick Henry

Frantz Patrick Henry is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian origin based between Montreal and New Haven. Working across sculpture, painting, installation, and site-responsive forms, Henry uses construction materials, everyday objects, Haitian vernacular architecture, layered imagery, and spatial storytelling to explore memory, exile, becoming, resistance, and the social meanings embedded in built environments.

Featured exhibition: No Bystanders, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, June 19–August 17, 2025. The solo exhibition gathered references to Haitian vernacular architecture, stained glass, silhouettes, plant forms, and construction materials into an immersive environment shaped by memory, fragmentation, vulnerability, and political force.

Keep up with him:
‍Website: frantzpatrickhenry.com
‍Instagram: @patrick_f._henry

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9. Vickie Pierre

Vickie Pierre is a Haitian-American multimedia artist based in South Florida whose work explores identity, femininity, mythology, memory, ornament, and cultural transformation. Through painting, collage, assemblage, and immersive installation, Pierre creates richly layered visual worlds that draw from Haitian heritage, Caribbean material culture, mythology, and the decorative objects that often surround girlhood and domestic life.

Featured exhibition: Made in Paint 2026, Sam & Adele Golden Gallery at Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, New York, April 18–August 28, 2026. The exhibition features artists-in-residence from 2025, including Pierre, and offers a recent point of entry into her ongoing material and painterly practice.

Keep up with her:
Instagram: @vpvpierre

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10. Asser Saint-Val

Asser Saint-Val is a Haitian-American, South Florida-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, design, and music. Born in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, Saint-Val creates sensory and immersive works that explore identity, spirituality, magic, the subconscious, melanin, and neuromelanin.

Featured exhibition/project: What’s in Your Container?, DVCAI at Barry University, Miami Shores, November 20, 2025–April 17, 2026. Curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, the exhibition explores the symbolism of shipping containers and barrels as forms tied to migration, support, exchange, and Caribbean community life.

Keep up with him:
‍Website: assersaintvl.com
‍Instagram: @asser_saintval

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Special Bonus: Miami Artists in Venice

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This Haitian Heritage Month spotlight also extends to Venice, where Miami-based artists Edouard Duval-Carrié and Adler Guerrier are part of major 2026 contemporary art moments connected to the Venice Biennale season.

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Edouard Duval-Carrié

Edouard Duval-Carrié is a Haitian-born, Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, and public art. Born in Port-au-Prince and shaped by experiences across Haiti, Puerto Rico, Canada, France, and the United States, Duval-Carrié creates richly layered works that explore Caribbean history, migration, Vodou spirituality, colonial memory, and the political imagination of the African diaspora.

His practice often brings together glitter, resin, glass, tropical color, historical imagery, and sacred symbolism to create luminous worlds where mythology and history meet. Through his long-standing engagement with Haiti, the Caribbean, and Miami, Duval-Carrié examines how memory moves across oceans, how spiritual systems preserve cultural knowledge, and how diasporic communities continue to remake themselves across place.

Featured exhibition: In Minor Keys, 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, May 9–November 22, 2026. Curated by Koyo Kouoh and her team, the exhibition includes more than 100 artists and collectives from around the world, with Duval-Carrié’s participation marking an important moment for Haitian and Miami-based contemporary art on a major international stage.

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‍Adler Guerrier

Adler Guerrier is a Haitian-born, Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans photography, drawing, collage, printmaking, installation, and public art. Born in Port-au-Prince and based in Miami, Guerrier’s practice investigates place, memory, public space, and the politics of the built environment, often using poetic visual language to map the layered experiences of Caribbean and diasporic life.

His work frequently moves between the intimate and the civic, turning attention to gardens, streets, architecture, fragments of text, and the shifting social landscapes of Miami. Through these images and materials, Guerrier explores how Black diasporic memory lives in everyday environments and how place can hold histories of movement, resistance, imagination, and belonging.

Featured exhibition: Soul Frequencies, 193 Gallery, Venice, May 5–June 27, 2026. The group exhibition features Adler Guerrier alongside Christa David, Hyacinthe Ouattara, Joana Choumali, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Modou Dieng Yacine, Roxane Mbanga, Shourouk Rhaiem, and Thandiwe Muriu, bringing together artists from Africa and its diasporas through themes of music, memory, spirituality, and Black cultural expression.

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Additional featured exhibition:

‍Reconstructing Identity: An Exploration of Identity and Diaspora Through Artistic Practice, Miami MoCAAD, Historic Ward Rooming House, Overtown, Miami, June 6–27, 2019. Curated by Donnamarie Baptiste, the pop-up exhibition brought together multidisciplinary artists of American, Haitian, Cuban, Dominican, and Jamaican descent to explore identity, diaspora, and sense of place through painting, sculpture, photography, and drawing. The exhibition included Guerrier alongside artists such as Christopher Carter, Morel Doucet, Asser Saint-Val, Kandy Lopez-Moreno, Sharon Norwood, Onajide Shabaka, Rhea Leonard, Francisco Maso, Duwane Coates, and T. Eliott Mansa.