Edouard Duval Carrié

Edouard Duval Carrié is a contemporary artist and curator based in Miami’s Little Haiti. Born and raised in Haiti, Duval Carrié fled the regime of “Papa Doc” Duvalier as a teenager and subsequently resided in locales as diverse as Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal, Paris and Miami. At heart, Duval Carrié is an educator: he challenges the viewer to make meaning of dense iconography derived from Caribbean history, politics, and religion. His mixed media works and installations present migrations and transformations, often human and spiritual. 

Duval Carrié’s works feature robust conceptual layering, emphasized by his material choices, and consistent attention to translucent and reflective mediums, such as glitter, glass, and resin. The introspective effects of these mediums transform his works into spatial interventions that implicate the viewer in their historicity. At their most fundamental, Duval Carrié’s works ask the viewer to complicate the Western Canon, to consider how Africa has shaped the Americas, and how the Caribbean has shaped the modern world.

Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978 and studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1988 to 1989.

Host: Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Recording Location: Barry University Department of Communication, Miami Shores, Florida
Editor: Raymel Casamayor

Links:
Edouard Duval Carrié 
@EdouardDuvalCarrie