Dimension: 30’’×40’’

Material: Acrylic paint, spray paint on canvas

Year: 2021

Jean-Robert Alexis was born in 1980. He learned painting and drawing in the studio of Ismael Saincilus, who remained his model. He lives and works in Haiti. Settled in the Grand Rue following the death of his mother, he continued his studies at the Lycée Pétion then at the Lycée Fritz Pierre-Louis, to join the National School of Arts (ENARTS) in 2012 where he followed three years of nitiation to the arts plastics. He frequents the artists of the "Atis rezistans" Movement while continuing his practice of painting, which tends to assert itself more and more. Inspired by ancient history, pre-Columbian history as well as the mythology and divinity of these ancient cultures, he develops his own language, his own plastic codes. In 2015, Jean-Robert Alexis took part for the first time in the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince and had his first solo exhibition in February 2017, at IERAH (ISERSS): Apparition et Métamorphose des dieux tutélaires. This exhibition and its integration into the artistic and social movement "Nou pran lari-a" allowed it to emerge on the contemporary Haitian scene. In 2018, his work evolves, he creates nightmarish, macabre, disfigured characters and dinosaur heads, snakes, etc. Jean Robert Alexis participates in several workshops at the Center d'Art, including ''RE-VIZITE'' in 2018, he participates in a creative workshop inspired by the collections of the Center and which will give rise to an exhibition presented at the Center d'Art et at the French Institute of Haiti.