Artist
Kessie Theliar-Charles is a research-based artist affiliated with CIDIHCA (International Center for Haitian, Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information). Her practice takes shape through research-creation, merging oral history and archival research to preserve and make accessible the diverse narratives of the Haitian diaspora. Her current research is dedicated to documenting Haitian visual artists who left Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship from 1957 to 1986 and reestablished themselves in Montreal, New York, and Paris. More broadly, she focuses on the recovery, preservation, and dissemination of the heritage of Afro-descendant visual artists who have been and continue to be active in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.
