The artists

Born in 1952, Cedon is a Haitian naïve painter living near St. Domingue. He was a journalist and a Hollywood actor; however, he turned to painting to open a gallery for Dominican-Haitian artistic exchanges. Known for his black and white works, he also paints landscapes. "Given that Haiti is an Afro-American country, my art reflects the labor of our ancestors and our brothers today in the countryside."

He has exhibited in the United States, South America, France, and various European countries. After a stroke five years ago, he continues to create powerful artworks at a suitable pace.

Samuel is a Dominican painter, a graduate of the school of Master Miguel de la Moya. He paints in the streets of St. Domingo. He has taken part in over 40 individual and collective exhibitions in the United States and the Dominican Republic. He is one of the few Caribbean painters who paint in oils. His favourite themes are flamboyants and landscapes of small villages.

Edward Castro was born in Santo Domingo in 1974 to Cuban parents. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts. He paints musicians in an Art Nouveau style.

Alvin is a Dominican landscape painter. As a teenager, he worked as a street shoe shiner when he met a painter who took him under his wing. For 10 years, he trained by assisting his mentor until his passing. Since then, he has been painting landscapes, particularly Caribbean beaches and countryside.

Yara is a Martinican painter of Hungarian origin. She spent her childhood in Cuba and studied at the Fine Arts School in Budapest. In her quest for warm colours, she returned to the Caribbean to settle in Sainte-Luce. Her tropical painting is dreamlike and depicts a world where Antillean landscapes blend with extraordinary creatures.

Born on 19th March 1937, he is a Dominican draughtsman and painter who studied at the National School of Fine Arts of the Dominican Republic (ENBA). In 1955, he fled the regime of Rafael Leunidas Trujillo for the United States, where he broadened his knowledge, becoming one of the country's best caricaturists. In 1960, he returned to the Dominican Republic and, after the liquidation of the dictatorship, Cestero combined his creative talent with that of visual artists to form the avant-garde group "Art and Liberation".

He has won several awards both within and outside the country, participated in numerous international exhibitions, notably in France and Italy.

Frantz Pierre, born in Port-au-Prince in Haiti, has developed an original style. His works are exhibited in numerous galleries around the world. He currently resides in Florida.