Andre Eugène is the progenitor of the Grand Rue movement. Eugène started out as a house builder, but influenced by the creative energy of his neighbourhood he started to learn traditional sculpting in wood. ‘There was always something happening in our neighbourhood, the carnival band, Pep Samis, many sculptors and Vodou all around. This made me begin the life of an artist.’ Eugène’s work became increasingly influenced by contemporary Haitian artists such as Nasson. Eugène fused the fetish effigy with an apocalyptic MTV futuristic vision. Much of his work is figurative using human skulls for heads and  imbued with a bold sense of irony, sexuality and humour.

Born in 1959 in P-au-P, Haiti

Group Exhibitions:

1998   JAMA art fair , P-au-P, Haiti
1999   Maison du Tourisme, P-au-P, Haiti
2000   JAMA art fair, P-au-P, Haiti
2001   Baka, Monstres et Chimeres, Centre Culturel AFRICAMERICA, P-au-P, Haiti
2002   Hotel de Ville, P-au-P, Haiti
2002   2th Forum Transculturel d'art Contemporain, Musee d'Art Haitien, P-au-P, Haiti
2003   Sculptures Urbaines, Banque Centrale de la Barbade,  Barbade
2003   Musee de l'Independance, P-au-P, Haiti
2004   Sculptures Urbaines, Banque Centrale de la Barbade, Barbade
2004   Lespri Endepandan, Discovering Haitian Sculpture,  Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA
2004   3th Forum Transculturel  d'Art Contemporain, Centre Culturel AFRICAMERICA P-au-P, Haiti
2004   KAFOU,  Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti
2005   Ecole des Beaux Arts de l'Ile de la Reunion, Ile de la Reunion
2005   Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti
2006   Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti
2006   4th Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain,  Musee du Pantheon National
2005   Gallerie Bourbon-Lally, ARTE AMERICAS, Miami, USA 
2006   Galerie Bourbon Lally, Outsider Art Fair, , New York , USA
2006   Galerie Boubon-Lally, The National Black Art Fair, , New York, USA
2006   Freedom Sculpture Launch, Musee d'Art Haitien, P-au-P, Haiti
2006   Freedom Sculpture, Touring the UK
2006   The Sculptors of Grand Rue, The Foundry, London, UK
2007   Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti
2007   Vodou Rezistans, The Foundry, London, UK
2007   Vodou Riche, Colombia College, Chicago, USA
2007   Influences Caraibes, La Dynamo, Paris, France
2008   MEG, Geneva, Switzerland