(1947 - )
Born in Haiti

Patrice Piard was born in the south of Haiti in June 1947. With a Bachelor in Architectural Design from the Faculty Richard Leconte in Haiti, most of his paintings reflect his knowledge of architecture and building design. Patrice continues to epitomize inventiveness in balance with discipline.

Because he paints what he feels, his mood may find expression in human form or it may seek the style of abstraction, or it may be immersed in impressionists. But in every painting, there is the powerful instinct for composition and color.

He says he paints "a window through which his viewers may see his beloved homeland...Real Haiti! I would like them to see what I see."

In addition to painting, Patrice is one of the authors of "Haitian Artists in America," a great book featured on this site. He currently resides in New York.

Comments Made About The Artist

¨Patrice Piard displays an ability to paint nocturnes, which adds mystery to what should be ordinary.¨

The New York Times Sunday August 10, 1997

¨Patrice Piard is in the best tradition of the Haitian art: powerful and presumptuous harmony of colors, poetry of shapes realistic and decorative at the same time; individual movement structured from the line of the color and the light, possess on its own the composition and engenders an indisputable unity of togetherness.¨

Michel Philippe Lerebours Historian of Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

¨Patrice Piard's painting is a unique form of realism. He uses his passionate seeking of colors' composition to bring out reality.¨

Willy Nicolas Working Press Photographer, Collector, N. Y

Exhibitions

• 1986- Graphics designs for the American Friend Service Committee
• 1987- Medgar Evers College Show for Mario Cuomo (Governor of N. Y.)
• 1988- Special Exhibit in Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.
• 1990- One man show, St Albans, New York
• 1991- Group Show- Gallery Pa Nou
• 1991- Art Expo at the Jacob Javits Center, N.Y.
• 1992- One Man show at the Jardin Cultural Gallery
• 1994- Black History Show, N.Y., N.Y.
• 1995- Association Queens Of Arts Gallery AQA, N.Y.
• 1996- Gallery of Bruxelles, Belgique
• 1996- 50th Anniversary UNESCO Parts, France
• 1996- Gallery Antoinette Jean Paris, France
• 1997- Gallery CNTC Connecticut, U.S.A

Artist Statement

"I would like a poetic quality in my paintings. If I give too much information, the painting becomes a dead-end description of a certain place. I love its poetry. This idea is to give a sense of peace and beauty by using relationship that have a purpose. I try to combine the calculated classical approach with romantic color. While I am looking for an artistic solution it demands a new approach not to one but to three of the major issues of painting, forms, color, and figurative expression. For me each canvas is a personal celebration of color, a passion which combines with peacefulness, an ambiance of harmony."