Bresil Akenson, Haitian painter

Bresil Akenson was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is between twenty-five and thirty years old, but all who see him struck by the fact that he looks like a young teenager. Akenson is, like many Haitian painters, entirely self-taught. He still lives and works in Port-au-Prince, where he has established and maintained a close working relationship with Galerie Issa, whose proprietor, Issa el Sayeh, has been a patron of Haitian art for many decades. His works are exhibited in several galleries in Haiti.

This Blog was created out of concern for Bresil Akenson, and other Haitian painters, following the catastrophic earthquake on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Our hopes and prayers are that Bresil and the other Haitian painters are safe.