Guyodo (Frantz Jacques)
Guyodo was born in the Grand Rue district in the early seventies. He has created some of the most monumental works of the trio, huge dense sculptures using the underchassis’ of derelict vehicles. His smaller works use silver paint and colour with a fresh flamboyance uncultivated in the other artists work. ‘Celeur pushed me into becoming an artist and now it is my whole life. You have to have strength and maturity to be an artist in Haiti. It is really difficult being an artist in the third world; you don’t get recognised in your own country. Unfortunately, it is only people from very far away who are taking any interest in our work.’
Born in 1973 in P-au-P, Haiti
Solo Exhibition:
2005 Centre Culturel AFRICAMERICA
Group Exhibitions:
2004 Lespri Endepandan, Discovering Haitian Sculture, Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA
2005 Fete de la Sculpture, Institut Francais d'Haiti, P-au-P, Haiti
2005 Outsiders Art Show, Galerie Bourbon Lally, New York, USA
2006 4 th Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain, Musee du Pantheon National Haitien, P-au-P, Haiti
2006 Galerie Boubon Lally, Outsider Art Fair, 2006, New York
2006 Freedom Sculture 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 Riche, Colombia College, Chicago, USA
2008 Galerie Bourbon-Lally, The Outsider Art Fair , New York
2008 Galerie Bourbon-Lally, NFBAS, New York
2008 University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France
2008 MEG, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection:
Permanent Collection of the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University
