This exhibit features the work of Charles Jean-Pierre. Akin to the story of countless immigrant children, Jean-Pierre’s artistic view was filtered through the lenses of individuals who escaped terror. Their burying of those experiences sparked an unsettling curiosity in him to create works that uncover the past within the context of systèmes socio-politiques. Future Memories brings to light collective trauma, and drives to explore how memory shapes the historical and contemporary imaginations.
Jean-Pierre began experimenting with art at an early age by creating visual narratives based on classical paintings from his homeland of Haiti. This series was inspired by Caribbean and Latin American authors from Edwidge Danticat and Franz Fanon to Jamaica Kincaid and Paulo Lins. His current research centers on contemporary Indigenous legacies throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania.
Biography
Jean-Pierre is a U.S. State Department Art in Embassies Artist. His work is in the permanent collection of the U.S. Embassy in Cotonou, Benin and the new U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger. He has participated in two Smithsonian exhibitions and has been invited by the White House to speak on the role of the arts in youth justice. He has curated two exhibitions at the Embassy of Haiti and has been commissioned to create works for the International Monetary Fund and the Inter American Development Bank. Jean-Pierre has created public art in Cape Town, Pretoria South Africa, New York, Chicago, DC, Istanbul, Panama, Port-au-Prince, London, and Paris. Jean-Pierre holds a Master of Arts from Howard University. Jean Pierre has studios at STABLE Arts DC and 52 O St Studios in Washington DC.
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