Levoy Exil
Levoy Exil (born 1944), is a master Haitian artist and painter; he is one of the main contributors to the Saint Soleil art movement.
Exil's paintings are mystical and abstract and often depict Haitian Vodou Loas, suns and stars, birds, and Marassas. His painting style is primitive and dreamlike and employs the Pointillism technique of applying small, distinct dots in a pattern to reveal an image.
Prosper
Pierre-Louis
Prosper Pierre-Louis (1947–1997), was a Haitian artist, painter; and one of the main contributors to the local school of the Saint Soleil art movement. His paintings depicting mystical Vodou Loas and spirits are especially noteworthy. Pierre-Louis was born on October 12, 1947, in Bainet, near Jacmel, Haiti. He did not have any formal schooling, but taught himself to play the drums and the violin.
Antoine Smith
Antoine Smith lived in the years 1943-2009, was illiterate, he did not know the history of art. His great strength was the Haitian tradition.
Gerard Fortune
Gerard Fortune, commonly known by his first name Gerard, is a Haitian artist. His exact date of birth is uncertain, though Gerard has said he was alive during the Haitian dictatorship of Jean Claude Duvalier, which would put his age at about 50–60 years old.[1] Gerard was born and raised in the city of Petionville, a suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
Dennis Smith
Born 1954 in Soisson-la-Montagne, Haiti. A founding member of the Saint-Soleil group of artists, championed by Andre Malraux, Smith began to paint in 1972. With the recent passing of Prospere Pierre-Louis, Louisiane Saint Fleurant, Dieseul Paul, Tiga and Stivenson Magloire, he is one of the last surviving members of this innovative group. His work is published in Haiti: Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988), Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), and Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990).
Richard Antilhomme
According to Michele Grandjean in her wonderful book, Artistes en Haiti, Antilhomme was born in the early 1920's in Petit Trou de Nippes. His parents were farmers . He never attended school and moved to Port-au-Prince when he was nine. There he found work as a housekeeper in the home of a doctor. He later became a mechanic and then worked at painting and construction. When he was around fifty, he met Tiga, the founder of the Saint Soleil art community in the mountains above Port-au-Prince, and became one of the first members of the group. When Saint Soleil disbanded in 1978 Antilhomme stopped painting and did not resume until 1989 . He is presently a member of "Cinq Soleils", the group that grew out of Saint Soleil. He spends all of his time painting now. "When I am painting, I am happy"' he says now, "everything is good for me, I am happy"
Antilhomme lived happily in Petionville, with his wife and children until he passed away in November 2002.