Philippe Dodard was
born in 1954 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He studied at the Poto-Mitan
Art School and then entered the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1974, he worked as a
layout artist in an advertising agency, met with Frantz Ewald, and founded a
studio of audiovisual graphic art.In 1975, Dodard was awarded first prizes for
a poster on the handicapped and a poster for the Haitian Art Festival. He worked
as an advertising illustrator for the Haitian newspaper Le
Nouvelliste.
In 1978, he received a scholarship to the International School in Bordeaux,
enabling him to specialize in pedagogic drawing. In 1982, he designed a stained
glass window for the Methodist Church of Bird College. Two years later he
received a scholarship from the Rotary International Foundation and left on tour
the Group Study Exchange of Haiti to give conferences on Haitian culture.
Between 1971 and now, Dodard exhibited in Haiti, Surinam , Brazil, France and
the United States namely Galerie d'Art Nader
in Coral Gables, Florida.
Dodard's work as a
graphic artist undoubtedly explains the angular aspect of the subjects he fits
into a space without perspective. As
an international renowned Haitian painter hisname and art are mentioned is all major Haitian art books namely
: La Peinture Haitienne
by Marie-Jose Nadal & Gerald Bloncourt, La
Rencontre des 2 Mondes by Jean-Marie Drot,
Haiti et Ses
Peintres by
Michel Philippe Lerebours, andPeintres Haitiens
by Gerald Alexis.
His art is well appreciated among art collectors and lovers all over the world.
