Tessa Mars (b.1985; she/her) is a Haitian visual artist born and raised in Port-au-Prince. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at Rennes 2 University in France in 2006 after which she returned to live and work in Haiti. Mars’s work presents her efforts to reconnect to a Haitian perspective of the world. Her paintings and papier-maché objects have been shown recently in the exhibitions “Your presence does not escape me” at Tiwani Gallery in London and “Who Tells a Tale adds a Tail” (2022) at the Denver Art Museum in Denver. Mars is an Alumn of the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2020-2022), she currently resides in Puerto Rico.
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All Islands Touch
All Islands Touch (2024) is a newly commissioned installation consisting of a large-scale painting and several heart-shaped paper-mâché sculptures arranged around it. When placed on the ground, the painting and sculptures create a personal map that depicts the relationship between the body and the land, presenting a landscape that visitors can walk around. The artworks […]
September 21 – December 1
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