Frantz Lamothe
Frantz Lamothe (Born 1961, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lives and works in Paris, France)
Frantz Lamothe’s raw and visceral paintings reflect fragments of his varied past. Born in Haiti in 1961, he left at the age of four and spent his childhood in Brooklyn, and by the age of sixteen was living on the streets and painting graffiti in the subways of New York. This way of life came to an end when, along with fellow graffiti artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lamothe was taken up by the New York gallery circuit. After the death of Basquiat, he returned to Haiti and combined his original anarchic street style with the vibrant colours of the Caribbean, and the sacred diagrams of Vodou. His work garnered international acclaim and has been shown across Europe, Japan, and the USA. Through all this turbulent history, his work continues to reflect a wild and brutally honest vision of the world.