Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson

Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson (born December 1965) is a Haitian artist and art historian.

Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson
BornDecember 1965  (age 54)
OccupationVisual artist 

Life

She was born Barbara Prézeau in Port-au-Prince and was educated at the Ecole Nationale Des Arts, studying with Ludovic Booz, Rose-Marie Desruisseau and Frank Louissaint. Her mother operated an art gallery in Pétion-Ville. Prézeau-Stephenson also studied dance with Lavinia Williams and attended drama workshops organized by the Institut Français in Haiti. In 1985, she came to Canada and studied visual arts and art history at the University of Ottawa. She also lived and worked in Dakar and France. She completed a MA in management of cultural organizations at the Université Paris-Dauphine.[1][2][3][4]

Prézeau-Stephenson returned to Haiti in 1995. She established the Africamerica Foundation and the Transcultural Forum for Contemporary Art. In 2007, the Museum of Haitian Art held a retrospective of her work from the period 1986 to 2000. Her work has appeared in exhibitions in New York City, Montreal, Ottawa, Paris, Seville, San Diego, Brussels, Chicago, San Francisco and Quito. Prézeau-Stephenson has created paintings, sculptures and art installations; she was one of the first female Haitian artists to create land art.[1][3]

References
  1. "Barbara Prézeau". Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain. Dak'Art.
  2. Joseph, Celucien L; Cleophat, Nixon S (2016). Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective. pp. 172–73. ISBN 1498508324.
  3. "Artistes" (PDF). 1st Haitian Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia. p. 15.
  4. "The Cinderella Complex". Project Muse.


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