Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery was honored by the invitation to participate with a solo show by laureate Haitian Master Edouard Duval-Carriè in the year ́s installment of Frieze N.Y., one of the most prestigious contemporary art fairs in the world, this past May 2019. The exhibition displayed in the section Diálogos is curated by Patrick Charpenel in celebration of the 50th anniversary of El Museo Del Barrio.

Edouard Duval-Carrié is a contemporary artist and curator based in Miami, Florida. Born and raised in Haiti, 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 as well as spiritual. Duval Carrié fled the regime of “Papa Doc” Duvalier as a teenager and subsequently resided in places as diverse as Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal, Paris, and Miami. Parallels thus emerge between the artist’s cosmopolitan lifestyle and his artistic sensitivity toward the multifaceted identities that form his native Haiti. His works have been exhibited in significant museums, art institutions, and galleries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Last year, Duval-Carrié celebrated various milestones. Among many was the completion of his largest piece to date: The Saga Of the Baobab, a corten steel structure standing 40 ft tall and weighing more than twenty tons, graces the central atrium of the Musée des Civilisations Noires in Dakar, Senegal, whose government bestowed the artist with The Ordre National du Lion Chevalier. On the same year, he was awarded the first Ellie’s Michaels Richard Award by The Art Center of South Florida acknowledging the artist’s originality and creativity throughout the decades. After residing in Miami for over thirty years, EDC was chosen to receive this recognition alongside an important commission to The Bass Museum in Miami Beach.