Marie-Alice Théard, Haïti, la voie de nos silences. Créativité, complexité, diversité : 117 femmes haïtiennes écrivent, volume 4, Port-au-Prince, Bibliothèque nationale, 1998.
→Rose-Marie Desruisseau, La Rencontre des trois mondes, Port-au-Prince, Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1992.
→Betty Laduke, “Haitian art: five women painters”, Kalliope : A Journal of Women’s Art, vol. 6, no. 2, June 1984, p. 15–21.
Haïti au toit de la Grande Arche, Paris La Défense, 10 September–18 October 1998.
→Histoire d’Haïti I, 1492–1791. Le vaudou haïtien III et IV, Port-au-Prince, musée d’Art haïtien, 1986.
→Rose-Marie Desruisseau of Haiti, Washington, Howard University Gallery of Art, October 16 octobre-November 6, 1974.
Haitian painter.
The artistic practice of Rose-Marie Desruisseau centres on her research into and engagement with mysticism, with a view to raising the status of ancestral Vodou traditions. She stands out as the only Haitian woman artist to approach the narration of her country’s history through the medium of painting. Her body of work is infused with cultural and social values, yet it is equally deeply autobiographical. A consideration of her work reveals her enduring interest in the revival of collective memory.
A biography produced as part of “The Origin of Others. Rewriting Art History in the Americas, 19th Century – Today” research programme, in partnership with the Clark Art Institute.
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