Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and now based in Montreal, Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux is a self-taught artist whose distinctive visual language unfolds primarily through painting. Grounded in Haitian mythology, artistic traditions and histories, his work draws on Vodou and the lwa while bringing historical Haitian narrative art into dialogue with Western avant-garde movements. His gestural compositions, despite their apparent spontaneity, emerge from a precise visual vocabulary in which natural forms, spiritual figures and personal and collective histories coexist.

Desvarieux’s recent works turn increasingly toward the living world, exploring interdependence and the restorative potential of nature. Connecting his personal trajectory to broader histories of Haiti and the Caribbean, his practice considers how meaning is created through attention, embodiment and relationships, and how ecological and spiritual forms of knowledge can offer different ways of understanding our place within the world.

Desvarieux is a founding member of the art collective Atelïer Good People. In 2026, he made his New York debut with a solo presentation in the Focus section of The Armory Show, at the invitation of curator María Elena Ortiz of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. His work has also been exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent’s Daughters West (Los Angeles), the Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto) and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, among others.