The Hero of the Garden 1, 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 30’’x 60” inches
The Hero of the Garden 1, 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 30’’x 60” inches

The Hero of the Garden 2, 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 30x 60 inches

The Hero of the Garden 1, 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 30x 60 inches

Hero. 2 , 2021 Acrylic on Canvas, 16’’x 20” (inches)
Hero. 2 , 2021 Acrylic on Canvas, 16’’x 20” (inches)

Hero 1, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x 30 inches.

Brave Woman, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 30’’x 60” inches

The city has eyes.   This series captures the pulse of city life, blending abstract forms with cultural symbols to spark conversation.

The city has eyes 2, 2018, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 W x 16 H x 1 D in
The city has eyes 2, 2018, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 W x 16 H x 1 D in

“Vibration of Colors”

Metamorphosis.    This is a collection steeped in imaginative and allegorical narratives.

Renaissance, 2016 Acrylic on Canvas, 24 W x 30 H x 1.2 D in
Renaissance, 2016 Acrylic on Canvas, 24 W x 30 H x 1.2 D in

Memory Work 2004 - 2019

 Mixed Media 

 I combine traditional and unconventional materials—fabric, charcoal, resin, coffee—to explore recovery and justice through transforming matter into visual energy and light as resilience. 

The emancipated woman, 2007, Mixed media on Canvas, 36 W x 24 H x 1.2 D in
The emancipated woman, 2007, Mixed media on Canvas, 36 W x 24 H x 1.2 D in

Biography 

Renold Laurent is a Haitian artist currently based in Cambridge, MA. His dynamic and expressive paintings are rooted in imagined dialogue with his audience and between mixed media, cultural history, the present, and our collective future. He was born in Source Bretoux, a village at the foot of the Marbial Valley—a few kilometers from the city of Jacmel, Haiti. At the age of ten, Rénold began to draw and paint under the direction of his father, Maccène Laurent, a primitivist artist. Very early, he was inspired by the cultural life of his rural environment, including Rara festival music, Carnival, and the architecture of Jacmel.   

In 1995, in his quest to continue improving his painting techniques, he took many trips to Jacmel and Port-au-Prince to open his mind and learn more about other artists. It was through the books and catalogs of the Alliance Française library in Jacmel that he began to discover the works of Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Daly, Kandinsky, Klee, Pollock, and the names of great Haitian painters such as Hypolite, Tiga, Cédor, and Lazard; these research trips had a profound impact on his artwork.   

A few years later, he incorporated new perspectives and techniques into his paintings. He considers abstract painting to be the most expressive way to explore the extraordinary powers of the imagination. Laurent has collaborated with several cultural institutions in Haiti, and his paintings have been exhibited in Haiti, USA, France, and others.

Artist Statement  

Renold Laurent is a Haitian artist whose practice explores memory, migration, displacement, and cultural resilience through painting, collage, and mixed media. Drawing from Haitian history, personal experience, and the histories embedded in places and materials, Laurent builds layered abstract works from painting, reclaimed fabrics, pigments, charcoal, earth, paper, and other found materials. These materials become witnesses, carrying traces of lives, journeys, loss, resistance, and survival. 

Through abstraction, texture, and material accumulation, Laurent investigates how histories persist in the body, in objects, and in the landscape. His work asks how art can recover suppressed memories, challenge inherited narratives, and transform experiences of displacement into new forms of belonging.   

Renold Laurent's studio in 2023.