Jacques-Richard Chery

Jacques-Richard Chery was born in 1928 in Cap-Haitien on the northern coast of Haiti. In 1951 he became involved with Le Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, a government-funded art education center and gallery that was instrumental in the development and promotion of modern Haitian art. Internationally exhibited, Chery is known for his playful paintings of children, public transport vans (“tap-taps”), weddings and carnivals, and merchants carrying giant fruits on their heads—all executed in the colorful, “naive” style that characterizes the art of the country.