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Maksaens Denis (Haiti) is a multimedia artist currently living and working in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He studied in Paris and graduated in 1992 from the Superior School of Audiovisual Production with a thesis on Virtual Reality (VR). He returned to Haiti in 2002 and has been working there since.
Denis was the artistic director of AfricAmerica from 2013 until 2023.[1]
Denis is amongst others a Grand OVNI winner (2021),[2] a Leslie Lohman Fellow 20-21,[3] a Instituto Sacatar Residency Prize VideoBrasil winner (2023),[4] and a recipient of the first digital art commissions by Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA (2026).[5]
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Denis participated in the Venice Biennale in 2005,[6] the DAKAR Biennale in 2010, and the Havana Biennale in 2012.
- 2026 Radical Togetherness, Amsterdam, the Netherlands[7]
- 2023 NEXUS video and new media art from the Caribbean, MoCA Taipei, Taiwan[8]
- 2022 Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago (work acquired)[9]
- 2021 Queer Life in the Margins, Edge Zone Gallery, Miami, USA
- 2018 MAMMON, Fine Art Museum, Split, Croatia[10]
- 2014 Haiti 2 centuries of artistic creation, Grand Palais, Paris, France[11]
- 2012 In Extremis, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA[12]
- 2007 Infinite Islands, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA[13]
References
edit- ↑ "AfricAmericA.org". www.africamerica.org.
- ↑ "Prix Grand OVNi 2021".
- ↑ https://www.leslielohman.org/content/fellowship
- ↑ "Awarded Artists - Videobrasil". site.videobrasil.org.br.
- ↑ "Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces 21 Recipients of Inaugural Open Call for Digital Art Commissions • Pérez Art Museum Miami".
- ↑ Dees, Sasha (January 1, 2021). "Entangled Species. Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean". Entangled Species. Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean – via www.academia.edu.
- ↑ "Maksaens Denis - solo tentoonstelling".
- ↑ Whitfield, Christopher (July 14, 2023). "'NEXUS' Offers a One-Way Portal to Caribbean Video Art" – via www.frieze.com.
- ↑ "MCA Chicago - Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today".
- ↑ https://galum.hr/en/exhibitions/detail/mammon
- ↑ "Haïti, deux siècles de création artistique - Grand Palais, Galeries nationales". DessinOriginal.com.
- ↑ "Thursday, October 18, 12". yumpu.com.
- ↑ "Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art". Brooklyn Museum.
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