BURTON CHENET 

1958-2012

Born in New York, New York

Died in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

EDUCATION

1984

School of Visual Arts (BFA), New York, NY 

1980

Thiel College, Greenville, PA 

1978

Le Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 

Burton Chenet was born in New York of a Haitian father and an American mother; his family returned to Haiti when he was two years old. He returned to the U.S. for high school and received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts in New York. 

Currently residing between Port-au-Prince and Miami, Chenet takes advantage of his eclectic background: while his iconography is fundamentally Haitian, his techniques and themes reflect the two cultures that he was raised in. While embracing the work of the Haitian masters, Chenet moves forward and addresses the contemporary concerns of his generation. 

He was a professor of visual arts at the Ecole Nationale des Artes in Port-au-Prince, Chenet received many awards and exhibited in the Caribbean and abroad.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Musée d'Art Haïtien du Collége Saint-Pierre

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Hamilton Bank, Miami, Florida

Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba

Les Assurances Nassa, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Fondation Africa America, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Fondation Culture Création, Port-au-Prince, Haiti