Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux moved to Montreal to complete his studies in building engineering and project management. Through painting, he explores Haiti’s natural history, mythology, Vodou and the lwa, as well as its pictorial traditions and their history of mutual influence with European modernism. Despite their apparent spontaneity, his gestural compositions emerge from a precise visual vocabulary.

In his recent paintings, bodies, vegetation and spiritual figures intertwine, blurring the boundaries between the human and natural worlds. Informed by ancestral Haitian understandings of the interconnectedness of life, his work finds in this enduring knowledge the possibility of a different future.

Desvarieux made his New York debut in 2026 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 been exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent’s Daughters West (Los Angeles) and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto), among others.