Salt Lake City, UT

Dates: November 22, 2024 – February 22, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, November 22, 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MST

Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale highlights the vibrant and powerful work of Atis Rezistans, a collective of majority-class Haitian artists from the Grand Rue neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Working in challenging conditions, this dynamic community includes experienced sculptors, emerging painters, photographers, musicians, poets, and performers. Their art deeply engages with Haitian history, culture, and religion, emphasizing themes of resistance and resilience.

Since hosting the first Ghetto Biennale in 2009, Atis Rezistans has formed an international platform for collaborative artistic exchange, inviting artists from around the world to join their neighborhood in creating transcultural dialogues. Over the past 12 years, more than 300 international artists have participated, creating works that challenge the margins and centers of global art production.

This exhibition at UMOCA celebrates the rich heritage of Haitian art and the collaborative spirit of the Ghetto Biennale, while addressing the agency, influence, and radical lessons that Haitian culture offers in the 21st century.

Artists Featured:

• Andre Eugene
• Leah Gordon
• Bastian Hagedorn & Henrike Naumann
• Laura Heyman
• Michel Lafleur & Tom Bogaert
• Herold Pierre-Louis
• Evel Romain
• Claude Saintilus

Venue:
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA)
20 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801.328.4201

Admission: Free and open to the public

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Friday: 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Closed Sunday & Monday

For more information, visit UMOCA’s website.

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