Artist

Tessa Mars

Portrait of Tessa Mars. Photo by Wendy Désert, 2019.
Portrait of Tessa Mars. Photo by Wendy Désert, 2019.

Tessa Mars (1985) is a Haitian visual artist born and raised in Port-au-Prince. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at Rennes 2 University in France in 2006 after which she returned to live and work in Haiti. Her work has been shown recently in the exhibitions “Your presence does not escape me” at Tiwani Gallery in London  and “Who Tells a Tale adds a Tail”  (2022) at the Denver Art Museum. Tessa Mars is an Alumn of the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (2020-2022). She currently resides in Puerto Rico.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua [Other mountains, adrift beneath the waves]
TBA21–Academy presents an exhibition curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, a culmination of her three-year...
05 Apr 2025 - 22 Nov 2025
Ocean Space
Venice
Exhibitions
One Month after Being Known in That Island
The long shadow of colonial rule interpreted by Caribbean contemporary artists
27 Aug 2020 - 15 Nov 2020
Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger – KBH.G
Basel
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Interviews
“A vision of peace. Harmony and good intelligence”: an interview with Caribbean artist Tessa Mars – Read
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