I am featured in Parsons re:D Magazine. You can view the entire issue HERE.

MULTIPLICITY: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW
Washington, DC

July 6, 2024 - September 22, 2024

The first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents over 80 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.

Galleria Anna Marra proudly announces the unveiling of "How Do You Want to See Yourself," a groundbreaking group exhibition curated by the esteemed Ghanaian-American curator Larry Ossei-Mensah. Set to captivate audiences from April 10th, 2024, to July 30th, 2024, this exhibition marks Ossei-Mensah's third curated exhibition with Galleria Anna Marra, promising an immersive exploration of the global Black experience.


I can change through exchange with others without losing or diluting my sense of self.
-Edouard Glissant


At the heart of "How Do You Want to See Yourself" lies a profound meditation on the intricacies that define the Black journey worldwide. Through a diverse array of artistic mediums, including painting, collage and photography, the featured lineup of Adegboyega Adesina, Kwesi Botchway, Cydne Jasmin Coleby, M. Florine Démosthène, Jerrell Gibbs, Jammie Holmes, YoYo Lander, Stephen Langa, Joiri Minaya, and Lauren Pearce offers poignant reflections on self-perception in a society often inclined to negate Black humanity and visibility. Drawing upon Du Bois' "double consciousness" concept, the artists courageously confront the narratives of marginalization, contending with the complexity of opacity to embrace the richness and depth of the Black experience. Their works challenge preconceived notions, affirming the autonomy and complexity of Black identity.


Even when I’m fighting for my identity, I consider my identity not as the only possible identity in the world.
-Edouard Glissant


"How Do You Want to See Yourself" transcends geographical boundaries, inviting viewers to engage with a multiplicity of perspectives from Latinx, Caribbean, African American, and African artists working on the continent. Against the backdrop of Rome, Italy, this exhibition serves as a powerful catalyst for dialogue, prompting critical reflection on the dynamics of representation and visibility.


Through an innovative blend of inquiry and assertion, the exhibition invites audiences to contemplate the transformative potential of authentic representation. By embracing fluidity and drawing on diasporic histories, "How Do You Want to See Yourself" charts new territories in cultural expression, offering a platform for inclusive discourse and collective empowerment. "We are thrilled to present 'How Do You Want to See Yourself,' a testament to the resilience and dynamism of the Black diaspora," says curator Larry Ossei- Mensah. "This exhibition is not only a celebration of identity but also a call to action, challenging us to reimagine the possibilities of representation in today's global landscape."


As Italy's cultural epicenter, Rome provides an evocative backdrop for this seminal exhibition, inviting audiences to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and cultural exchange.

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MULTIPLICITY: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, Texas 77005

February 6, 2024- May 12, 2024

The first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents over 80 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.

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MULTIPLICITY: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage
Frist Art Museum
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN

September 15, 2023-December 31, 2023

The first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents over 80 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.

I’ve been diligently working towards a solo exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art, that opens on August 16th. Here’s the info:

Mastering the Dream
August 16, 2023 – January 8, 2024
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA 31401

M. Florine Démosthène presents a newly created body of work that continues her exploration of enigmatic human forms in collage, and new experiments in sculpture. Démosthène’s practice centers the Black female body in abstractions that deal with themes of human transformation and collective experience.

The artist’s silhouetted figures are created with translucent applications of paint, ink and glitter on mylar, which are then cut and reassembled, creating Collaged bodies on translucent backgrounds. The resulting forms are swirling, celestial beings that transcend immediate readings of identity, offering otherworldly readings of Démosthène’s work.

The artist demonstrates recent spiritual influences in her sculptural work, after a period of living and working in Ghana. These sculptures reference shrines of the Fon people of Benin and Ewe people of Ghana in a blending of these aesthetic traditions with the cutting-edge technology of 3D printing.

I will be part of a public art exhibition, Femme Noire, at Seattle Art Museum. The show is collaboration between Modou Dieng Yacine, Larry Ossei-Mensah, blackpuffin, Wa Na Wari and Elisheba Johnson.

The project will be up from August 21st-September 30, 2023. For more info, click HERE.

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Always In All Ways
September 6th - October 22nd
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum
48 Savilla Street
St. Augustine, FL

Magic, Magician, Muse @deligallery in New York.
The show is curated by @saintfleurinc and @sydeveron.
Images: courtesy of M. Florine Démosthène
"Mastering the Dream 6", Collage on canvas, 2022
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Magic, Magician, Muse
June 17th-July 17th
Deli Gallery
36 Walker Street
New York, NY

The Way Forward will be part of a group exhibition, "From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age" Stephen Friedman Gallery in London.

From Near and Far will feature 16 contemporary female artists, and is curated by Katy Hessel (@katy.hessel), art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, and artist Deborah Roberts (@rdeborah191).

"From Near and Far"
June 8th - July 23rd
Stephen Friedman Gallery
25-28 Old Burlington St
London

These works are on view through June 21st at Ancien Palais de Justice (second level) as part of the @dak_artbiennale

I have a piece that is part of a fantastic group exhibition at Numeroventi in Florence. "Threads of Memory" will be up through May 19th.
@numeroventi for more information

In the Realm of Love
March 9th - April 16th
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
18, ave Matignon
Paris

Mariane Ibrahim is delighted to present In the Realm of Love, a presentation of new works by M. Florine Démosthène in Paris.In the Ream of Love is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe and is on view from March 9 to April 16, 2022.

Across a series of figurative collages and small sculptures, Démosthène traverses a viewer through the kingdom of love. With this newest series, the artist is interested in how the African concept of love manifests and whether it exists in the confines of what love is now. The work emerges from the artist’s contemplation of conversations she has had while living and working in Ghana.

I will have some works on view, as part of the exhibition A la Découverte de la Nouvelle Génération at the Ambassade D'Haïti in Washington DC.The exhibition will be on view from March 8th through April 8th.

Celebrating 10 years of excellence!
La Vie en Rose, at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery Chicago. The exhibition will be up through March 19, 2022.

The thematic exhibition is an invitation to celebrate the 10th anniversary, a gesture toward the difficulties of such an achievement. The title an homage to the song of popular French singer Édith Piaf, an anthem of love, "La Vie en Rose" ("Life in pink"'), alluding to seeing life through rose-colored glasses, to living life with an outlook of positivity, focusing on the beauty of every day. Ibrahim is pleased to announce La Vie en Rose, a group exhibition on behalf of the 10-year anniversary, made possible with the contribution of all of the artists.

“In our 10th year, I envisioned flowers to present a resistance and a reclamation of beauty and joy in this new departure. They symbolize the purity and passion, the flowers from the artists are an offering, an antidote, a hopeful reminder of the fragility of life. The result is breathtaking, a collection of flower arrangements reflecting the artists own signatures.” - Mariane Ibrahim

On Jupiter, works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, is on display at Olin Gallery at Roanoke College. The exhibition will close on March 27, 2022.

December 2 - 4, 2021
Booth #D30, Galleries Section
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

For our first presentation in the Galleries section at Art Basel Miami Beach, Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present new works by gallery represented and exhibiting artists. The works, all made in 2021, were created specifically for this presentation.

Mariane Ibrahim presents J'ai Deux Amours..., the inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s new space in Paris on Avenue Matignon. The show marks the gallery's newfound physical duality with its presence in Chicago and in Paris and presents never before seen works by gallery-represented artists.

The exhibition will be up through October 13th.

"How do we connect to our ‘self,’ while disconnecting from stories
and religions we have been taught? — Florine Démosthène

(BEVERLY HILLS — June 9, 2021) — UTA Artist Space is pleased to present Beyond the Looking Glass, a group exhibition of surrealist takes by women about women. Beyond the Looking Glass is curated by gallery director Zuzanna Ciolek, one of the first members of the UTA Fine Arts team when it was established in 2015.

The ambitious exhibition fills all three gallery spaces with bold works by a cross generational group of fourteen woman-identifying artists: Firelei Báez, Tawny Chatmon, Charlotte Colbert, Kim Dacres, Florine Démosthène, Genevieve Gaignard, Sanam Khatibi, Klara Kristalova, Shannon T. Lewis, Jesse Mockrin, GaHee Park, Hiba Schahbaz, Kiki Smith, and Jessica Stoller.


Beyond the Looking Glass presents a new lens for representation through surreal and uncanny artworks that address sexuality, race, and identity— radically defying solely ornamental representation. Taking inspiration from Alice in Wonderland, the title Beyond the Looking Glass is a twist on Through the Looking Glass, moving beyond a world where women are being seen as purely ornamental. The exhibition pulls viewers into an unexpected world filled with surrealist characters such as an elephant girl, a pink “C-section” vessel equipped with breasts, and a woman riding a reptile. While disrupting traditional portraiture of the Western Canon and confronting stereotypical representations of women, the figures portrayed transcend these societal constraints. With these archaic indicators of femininity stripped away, the surreal and expressionist imagery allows her to break out, expanding beyond the body.

Beyond the Looking Glass
June 25th-July 31st

UTA Art Space
403 Foothill Rd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

310.579.9850
utaartistspace@unitedtalent.com
Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 am — 6.00 pm

“There are a number of differing opinions among historians and non-historians regarding the actual number of people killed during the riot. These range from 36 to more than 300. The truth is no one actually knows. This issue is aggravated by the semantic difference between “died in the riot” and “died as a result of the riot.” (Tulsa Race Riot Commission)

The goal of this collaborative project is to honor and literally “put a name” to those who loss their lives as a result of the massacre. Each name has been digitally designed in a script font, and laser cut out of a thin magnetic sheet. The surface
of the names has been painted with an industrial grade glow-in-the-dark paint; During the day, the names will absorb sunlight that will allow them to glow in the evening.

A Return: Liberation as Power

Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah

Art by Delphine Desane, M. Florine Démosthène, Mark Fleuridor, Adler Guerrier, Kathia St. Hilare, and Didier William

May 24—31, 2021

The BAM sign screen (corner of Flatbush Ave & Lafayette Ave)

Haitian visual artists offer a meditation on liberation in this new public installation on the BAM sign, presented as part of DanceAfrica 2021. Inspired by Haiti’s legacy as one of the first independent nations in the Western Hemisphere, BAM Curator at Large Larry Ossei-Mensah invites these artists—and the Brooklyn community—to reflect on and draw strength from Haiti’s groundbreaking history in the midst of today’s calls for justice, equality, and liberation. A Return: Liberation as Power will be presented on the BAM sign at the corner of Lafayette and Flatbush Avenues.

I have been awarded the first Pillar Art Prize. You can view the information at Pillar Art Prize

M. Florine Démosthène has won the this years’ Wachtmeister Award presented biannually by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). The prize acknowledges “the vital role of the arts in our world, the importance of artists who exemplify excellence in their field, and the necessity of time and space for the creative phase of all artistic work.”

As the 2021 Wachtmeister Award winner, Démosthène will receive a $1,000 honorarium and a month-long residency at Mt. San Angelo, home to VCCA’s artist residency program in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

In residence at VCCA, Démosthène will have uninterrupted time and space to focus on her creative work. One project she hopes to pursue is an immersive installation that will incorporate elements of her drawings and paintings. “For this series, I will take on the persona of a warrior heroine whose special powers reside in her ability to harness the cataclysmic energy of her derrière,” writes Démosthène. “The goal of this project is to investigate cultural appropriation through the unveiling of transformative feminine power.”

July 10, 2020 - September 27, 2020

Small Axe Project
The Visual Life of Social Affliction
TENT Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Netherlands

*TENT is open

I will be presenting works with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery at the NYC Armory this year. Do check out!

Do check out my work at Zsona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo from February 5, 2020- February 9, 2020. I will be showing with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Booth B118.

Between Possibility and Actuality
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Opening Saturday, November 2, 2019
4pm - 7pm

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
437 N Paulina Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Tue-Sat 4pm-7pm

Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce Florine Démosthène’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Between Possibility and Actuality. On view from November 2 - December 21, 2019, the show celebrates the second presentation at the gallery’s Chicago space. Démosthène lures you into a phantasmagoric sphere with her sparkly surfaces and her amphibious marble-like figures adorned with aquatic accents.

Démosthène’s art is comprehensively performative, emphasizing flesh and form among an evanescent backdrop. The use of mylar, inherent to her former architectural training, enhance the lack of permanence in the background suggesting the figures are floating and translucent. Between reverie and reality, dream and nightmare, possibility and actuality, Démosthène plunges the viewer into her intertwined almost science-fiction dimension.

We are very thrilled to share our upcoming solo booth dedicated to Haitian-American female artist, Florine Démosthène. This is our fourth participation The Armory Show and we continue to dedicate our platform to exceptional female artists. Using non-traditional materials like glitter and mylar, her work evoke a strong animated struggle, a fight over existing power. The superpositions of her alter-egos, reflect the resilience of the pre-fabricated codes of aesthetics dictated by a set of behaviors. One cannot escape the commodification and fetishization of the black body. The artist is exposing a new physical paradigm, using gender and social attributes to escape determinism. She states “I feel my work is more about femininity and sensuality and what it means to be a woman, within the body you reside (which is heavily coded with race, size, skin color, etc.)”. Her subjects excavate new diasporic mythologies and ancient heroine figures while reconstructing Black female heroine personas.



Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Booth 720

Pier 94

NYC Armory Show

Thursday, March 7th: 12pm-8pm

Friday, March 8th: 12pm-8pm

Saturday, March 9th: 12pm-7pm

Sunday, March 10th: 12pm-6pm

I will be exhibiting limited edition prints with Offset Culture at the Cape Town Art Fair. The fair will be hosted at the CT Convention Center and will run from February 15th-February 17th. Offset Culture will be in booth E7.

"Where Is the Love You Promised Me, Where Is It" will be part of the show "American African American" at Phillips Gallery in New York. The show is curated by Arnold Lehman and opens tomorrow through February 8th. Go here for more information.

I will be showing a few works with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami. The fair opens on December 5th through December 9th.

My works will be featured with Gallery 1957 at the Joburg Art Fair next week. The fair will run from September 6th-September 9th.

In celebration of women's month South Africa, I will have seven works up in a group exhibition, at Keyes Art Mile in Rosebank, Johannesburg. The exhibition will be up through August 30th.

For more information, click on Keyes Art Mile

Gates of Horn & Ivory
Opening August 10th
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Berlin

The show will run through September 23, 2018.

For more information click on KJ Gallery

A few of my works will be part of a group exhibition, Figures de Femmes Totem d'Outre-mer, at Musée de l'Homme in Paris. The exhibition is curated by Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque and will be up through March 19th.

I have been awarded a 2018 Tulsa Artist Fellowship. For more info, click on Tulsa

October 5 – November 18, 2017

South Bay Contemporary Gallery in conjunction with Michael Stearns Studio 347 presents a co-located multi-media exhibition Diasporagasm. Diasporagasm is curated by Beyoncenista – artist April Bey’s alter ego – and acts as a performance bringing together melanated artists working in Los Angeles, Haiti, Ghana, the Caribbean and West Africa.

Drawing from the groundbreaking film Moonlight—a timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, the curator appropriates, amends and recontextualizes the juxtaposition of art race and gender.

The works in this exhibition will be from 15 artists who identify as black, but the work itself will not be “black art”. Rather conversations about what it means through individualism to be black, geographic differentiations in culture.

For more information go to: Diasporagasm

I will have a few work with at the fair with Gallery MOMO, South Africa

The Unbecoming
September 28-November 28, 2017
Semaphore Galerie d'art Contemporain Africain
Rue de la Cassarde 18
2000 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Semaphore

I will be exhibiting with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (UK) at the Volta Art Fair from June 12, 2017- June 17, 2017. For more information please go to Volta

My works will be part of an exhibition in Guadeloupe. Here's the info:

Ondes Imprévues
Mémorial ACTe Centre Caribéen d’Expressions et de Mémoire de la Traite et de l’Esclavage
Darboussier
97110
Pointe-à-Pitre
GUADELOUPE

Opening November 18, 2016
Exhibition Dates November 19, 2016- April 30, 2017

For more information go to Mémorial ACTe Centre

Go to EXPO CHICAGO

This online exhibition is part of A Bad Question: An Exhibition and Forum on Race and Feminism. The criteria for works was "self-selection". The artists may not necessarily categorize their work as "feminist artwork", and surely have differing opinions about feminism. The goal is to provide support for women artists. This action of support is part of tART's feminism.

Artists: Florine Demosthene, Simone Meltesen, Filomena Borecká, Kimberly Becoat, Juanita Lanzo, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Gretchen Adreon, Susan Natacha González, Rachel MacFarlane, Katherine Toukhy, Mary Valverde, Mary Jo Karimnia


Go to Tart Collective

Get Azzmatized! Solo Exhibition in Martinique. Yay!

August 28th - Ocotober 4th
Foundation Clement
Domaine de L'Acajou
97240 LE FRANCOIS
MARTINIQUE

For more information go to Get Azzmatized

Solo Exhibition at Gallery MOMO

August 6th - September 4th
Gallery MOMO
52 7th Avenue
Parktown North

For more info go to:Gallery MOMO

Towards Intersections: Negotiating Subjects, Objects & Contexts
May 21st-June 30th

UNISA Art Gallery
University of South Africa, Pretoria
Preller Street
New Muckleneuk
Kgorong Building
Ground Floor

For more information, go to: UNISA Gallery

The Women on Paper Exhibition continues to Prague, Czech Republic.

June 9th - September 15th
Women on Paper
Gandy Gallery at l’Institut Français de Prague
Galerie 35 – Francouzský institut v Praze Štepánská 35, Praha 1

Check it out at:
Institut Français de Prague
Gandy Gallery

I will have works at the art fair…courtesy of Gallery MOMO. For more information go to: Cape Town Art Fair

I am represented in South Africa by Gallery MOMO. Yay!

Gallery MOMO

I have been awarded with a grant for an upcoming project in South Africa.
Yay!

I am part of this group show in Bratislava, Slovakia. Here's the info:

December 10, 2014 - February 27, 2015
Women on Paper
Gandy Gallery
Sienkiewiczova 4
Bratislava 81109
Slovakia

Gandy Gallery

I will be part of “Transformative Visions: Works by Haitian Artists from the Permanent Collection” at Lowe Museum of Art in Florida. The exhibition will run from November 8th- January 11th.

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
1301 Standford Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33124

Fore more information, go to:Lowe Art Museum

I will have a couple of digital pieces at this exhibition in Peekskill, NY. Here’s the info:

October 21-November 22nd

Retrospective Part 2
Center for Digital Arts, Westchester Gallery
27 North Division Street
Peekskill, NY

For more information go to:Westchester Gallery

Art exhibition and salon aims to intervene into the global conversation about the "Black" body, a body that is perpetually in flux via restraint, attack, denial et al. Here these eight artists use the body as the predominant theme, gendered and sexualized in all its strength and glory, questioning a 21st century predicament and narrative.


The Subject is Black
Leslie Lohman Museum
127-B Prince Street (between Wooster and WBway)
NYC 10012

Opening, Friday October 24th, 6pm-8pm
Exhibition runs through Sunday October 26th (hours are 12pm-6pm)

I will be part of a group exhibition at Galerie Noko in South Africa. Here's the info:

Opening August 28th, 6pm
Galerie Noko
109-111 Russell Road
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
www.galerienoko.com

I will be representing Haiti and Ghana, under the theme of " Progressive Africa" at the Kampala Biennale in August. For more information, go to:
Kampala Biennale

I will be part of this exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information go to New Shelter Plan

I will have work as part of this group exhibition, Beaver:An exhibition female sexual self-expression, pornography, and gender performance

The show will be up from April 17th-24th. Here's the info:

Eugene Lang College
Theresa Lang Center
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY 10011

I have a few watercolors as part of this group exhibition in Guadeloupe. You can check out the show " Frédéric Bruly Bouabré" at:

T & T Art Contemporain
43 Immeuble Socogar
1 rue Ferdinand Forest (entrée face Air Caraïbes)
97122 Jarry Baie Mahault, Guadeloupe

You can go to this link T&T Art

I'm featured in this Caribbean magazine...along with another Haitian artist (and friend) Manuel Mathieu. Check it out at Moko

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the 1st edition of the International Contemporary Arts Biennale in Martinique (also known as BIAC MARTINIQUE). The exhibition will be held in Morne-Rouge (Martinique) from November 22nd, 2013 to January 15th 2014. The exhibition takes writer Aimé Césaire legacy of Negritude as inspiration for examining way cultural identity is reconceived within post-colonial paradigm. This exhibition will showcase thirty artists from the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and North America.

Organized by Tumelo Mosaka (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum), University of Illinois, this exhibition focuses on the various ways artists from around the world respond to issues about identity particularly those defined by race and ethnicity. This question of identity has pervaded nearly every aspect of contemporary life raising issues too complex to be easily resolved. More specifically, the exhibition challenges some of the basic assumptions that are deeply ingrained in our social fabric about personal and public identities. These identities on the one hand are discovered and claimed, and on the other, are fluid and changing. They are specific to place and time, yet also evolving and transforming.


For more info go to BIAC

I will be part of this group exhibition at RUSH Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn. The show will run from November 17th-January 12th (artist talk on the 12th). For more info go to Corridor Gallery

I will be part of this group exhibition at the Staten Island LGBT Center.
The show is curated by Robert Bunkin, Curator at Staten Island Museum.

"Wonder Twins" is featured in RiverLit. Check it out RiverLit

I will be part of an awesome group exhibition at BrutEdge Gallery in Jersey City. The opening is on Sunday, September 29th from 1pm-6pm. For more information go to BrutEdge Gallery

An on-line magazine web feature check out

My work was included as part of the Art Marathon Festival via Eastern Edge Gallery in Newfoundland.

Check it out at Art Marathon Festival

I will be featured on the Feminist Wire this week with a subsequent interview (some time in May). Check it out The Feminist Wire

Check it out So to Speak Journal

Check it out |http://sotospeakjournal.org/2012/09/20th-anniversary-fall-issue-is-here/|So to Speak Journal

All Things Are
Gallery at Porter Mill
Wednesday August 1 - Friday August 24
Opening Reception Saturday August 4
Curated by Brad Silk and Catie-rae Zappala of One Animal
Gallery at Porter Mill

"Florine Demosthene is a Haitian-born artist currently based in New York City whose work explores stereotypes and representation of the black female body. Her provocative series of mixed media drawings, The Capture, portrays a voluptuous black heroine in surreal vignettes that appear like sexually charged dreams. This mythic figure is mostly naked in each scene with powerful thighs, sagging breasts, and protruding stomach — the very antithesis of the ideal female form in Western culture. Demosthene boldly reveals her subject's inner world and erotic experiences amidst a landscape of decay and destruction. In interviews with the artist, she discusses how observing women on a trip to Africa, as well as reading Gulliver's Travels, inspired the creation of more than forty-five of these pieces. Through vibrant washes, emotive streaks of charcoal, and nuanced narratives, The Capture weaves its own epic tale of degradation, empowerment, and self-discovery."

Check out it at Culturehall

Just got a rep in Haiti. Yay! Check it out at Bourbon-Lally

Check out the web article on my art process...Uprising

I've been awarded a residency at the Lower East Side Printshop. Check it out at Keyholder

Check out this recent interview via ARC Magazine

Home & Away Exhibition
4Hr Nap, Caribbean Art Project Collaboration & Women Make Art
March 31 - April 14, 2012
The Gallery, St. Georges, Grenada

Berlin Biennale For Contemporary Art-via Artwiki, 2012

Yay! Check it out Joan Mitchell

I will have some pieces as part of the JCAL Studio LLC exhibition. The show will be up through March 10, 2012. Here's the info:

Jamaica Center for the Arts
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, NY

You can go to this link for the gallery hours and travel directions: JCAL

Hotel 718, a new boutique hotel in Brooklyn, has purchased one of my pieces. You can go to Hotel 718 to check it out.

I'm a 'special guest artist' for this exhibition of photographs from the Identity Blueprint program at Gallery Aferro. Here's the info:

DECEMBER16-JANUARY 7, 2011

Camera Club of New York
336 West 37th Street, Suite 206
New York, MY 10018
ccny

For more on the Identity Blueprint Program go to IB

I'm a 'special guest artist' for this exhibition of photographs from the Identity Blueprint program at Gallery Aferro. Here's the info:

OCTOBER 27-DECEMBER 3, 2011

Pierro Gallery of South Orange
Baird Center, 5 Mead Street
South Orange, NY 07079
web

For more on the Identity Blueprint Program go to IB

I shall have several works as part of a group exhibition at Dell Pryor Gallery in Detroit, Michigan. The exhibition will open on Friday, September 30th and will run through the end of October. If you are in the Detroit area, do stop by and check it out. For more information, go to Dell Pryor Gallery

I will have 2 pieces as part of this arts festival. For more information, go to Erotic Art Week

Come and check out my work during the month of September on Gov Island. There is a free ferry from Brooklyn (at the end of Atlantic Avenue) and a free ferry from Manhattan (at South Ferry next to the SI Ferry). The island is open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

I shall be participating in this festival which will be in London from September 9th - 25th 2011. For more info go to: AACDD

I will exhibit a new sculpture piece, Hard Candy, at the Playtime Trade Show this Saturday. This new work is a commissioned piece by the organizers of this international trade show. I must give a big 'shout out' to Jasmine for recommending me for this project.

There will be a cocktail reception this Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 6pm and the exhibit will be up for just 2 days.

Playtime Trade Show
82 Mercer Street between Spring & Broome Streets

My work has been featured in ARC magazine premiere issue! You can go to arcmagazine to check it out.