Dimension: 13’’x19’’

Material: Pastel on Paper

Year: 2019

Born in 1974 in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), where she lives and works, Cynthia Zamor Nérette by her artist name Teeyah, studied Economics at The University of Stony Brook, New York, USA.
The 2010 earthquake triggered a need for creation in her. She studied drawing, charcoal, watercolour and painting from 2011 to 2014 with Dimitri Devilmé from Dimarts. Subsequently, she reinforced her training by participating in different visual and creative arts exploration workshops with the artist painter Paskö (Pierre Pascal Mérisier).

At the Haïti’s Art Center, she took courses in engraving, calligraphy and participated in the art criticism workshops organized around the exposition “Archipelago”. She also was part of the “Creating Together, Carte Blanche to Pasko” workshop organized in 2021. Several themes run through Teeyah's work. In an abstract language, she explores the human being in his spiritual evolution: illusions, sufferings, wounds, duality, compassion, empathy and finally the letting go.

Since her exhibition as a guest artist at the Art Basel Miami 2017, “Art Festival” by the Art and Design Gallery, Teeyah has been exhibited in Haiti, the United States and Canada.