Edouard Duval-Carrié: From Venice with Love
The Betsy Hotel Presents From Venice with Love: Edouard Duval-Carrié Retrospective
A major exhibition explores migration, memory, Vodou spirituality, and the reclamation of Caribbean history through the luminous visual language of Edouard Duval-Carrié
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1, 2026, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
On View: August 1–November 15, 2026
Location: The Gallery at The Betsy, 1433 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
MIAMI BEACH, FL — The Betsy Hotel presents From Venice with Love: Edouard Duval-Carrié Retrospective, a major exhibition honoring one of the most influential contemporary artists working within the Caribbean diaspora. Opening on Saturday, August 1, 2026, the retrospective follows Duval-Carrié’s acclaimed participation in the 61st Venice Biennale and brings his richly layered visual universe to the heart of Miami Beach.
Curated by award-winning photographer, artist, and cultural advocate Carl-Philippe Juste, the exhibition examines Duval-Carrié’s sustained engagement with migration, historical memory, Vodou symbolism, spirituality, displacement, and the complex cultural relationships connecting Haiti, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Through luminous mixed-media paintings, sculptures, installations, and digitally projected imagery, Duval-Carrié challenges historical narratives that have frequently represented the Caribbean from an external or colonial perspective. His work places Caribbean experience, spirituality, and intellectual history at the center of the conversation.
The opening reception will take place from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. in The Betsy Gallery. Guests will experience the exhibition accompanied by live music from the Simon Mogul Jazz Quartet featuring acclaimed bassist Curtis Lundy. The performance will create an atmospheric dialogue between visual art and jazz, inviting visitors to look closely, listen deeply, and gather in community.
Reimagining Caribbean History
Born and raised in Haiti, Edouard Duval-Carrié left the country as a teenager during the Duvalier regime. He subsequently lived in Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal, Paris, and Miami—experiences that profoundly shaped his understanding of migration, identity, belonging, and cultural memory.
Working from his studio in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Duval-Carrié has developed an unmistakable visual language informed by Haitian history, Vodou cosmology, magical realism, political commentary, and the enduring consequences of colonialism.
His works frequently revisit historical events and figures while questioning who has traditionally possessed the authority to record, interpret, and circulate history. Ornate surfaces, reflective materials, saturated colors, botanical imagery, spiritual figures, and celestial environments transform his compositions into spaces where the historical and mythological coexist.
Rather than treating the Caribbean as a peripheral region, Duval-Carrié presents it as a central site of cultural exchange, resistance, creativity, spirituality, and intellectual production.
Art Beyond the Gallery
Throughout August, From Venice with Love will extend beyond the traditional gallery environment and into The Betsy’s public spaces.
Large-scale video art mapping will illuminate The Betsy Orb nightly, transforming the hotel’s iconic architectural structure into a monumental outdoor canvas. An additional illuminated installation will be presented in B Bar, allowing visitors to encounter Duval-Carrié’s imagery through an immersive relationship between art, architecture, light, and public space.
The exhibition will also be accompanied by community engagement initiatives and interdisciplinary programming exploring its central themes.
Among the related programs will be an intimate fireside conversation with Edouard Duval-Carrié, hosted by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, founder of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. The discussion will address migration, memory, Vodou symbolism, Caribbean identity, and the artist’s approach to reimagining histories that have too often been written without Caribbean voices at their center.
The program will also feature a dance performance by A’Keitha Carey, a Bahamas-born interdisciplinary artist and Florida International University Ph.D. candidate in Global Dance. Carey’s performance will bring movement and embodied storytelling into dialogue with Duval-Carrié’s visual world.
Related programming is presented in partnership with The Betsy Writer’s Room, the FIU Public Humanities Lab, and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau’s Art of Black Miami initiative, with support from the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation CreARTE Grant.
Select public programs may require advance registration. Proceeds from designated $5 tickets will support vulnerable children in Zimbabwe through The Betsy’s charitable partner, Zara’s Center.
Exhibition Information
From Venice with Love: Edouard Duval-Carrié Retrospective
Opening Reception:
Saturday, August 1, 2026
8:00–10:00 p.m.
Exhibition Dates:
August 1–November 15, 2026
Public Gallery Hours:
Daily, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location:
The Gallery at The Betsy
1433 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Visitors should enter through the hotel’s Collins Avenue entrance.
Admission to the opening reception and exhibition is free.
For visitor information, contact The Betsy concierge at [email protected]. Additional programming information is available through The Betsy Writer’s Room.
About The Betsy Hotel
Located in the heart of Miami Beach, The Betsy is internationally recognized for integrating hospitality with visual art, literature, music, public conversation, and community engagement. Through its galleries, public art installations, Writer’s Room residencies, live performances, and cultural partnerships, the hotel provides an influential platform for artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers from Miami and around the world.
From Venice with Love: Edouard Duval-Carrié Retrospective continues this commitment by presenting an expansive encounter with an artist whose work illuminates the cultural memory, spiritual traditions, political histories, and evolving identities of Haiti and the wider Caribbean.
