Dino
A Product of My Environment
Born in Haiti. Raised in Montréal.
Shaped through movement, competition and creation. Each place asked for a different way of surviving, of reading a room, of making something out of what was available. Nothing in the work today started in a studio.
Long before the public artworks, basketball shaped the discipline.
Archive · 2017 · Canadian college championship team
Repetition, structure, accountability to a group. The court taught a method before it had a name: show up, refine, hold the standard when nobody is watching.
The first drawings sold for ten dollars.
Small commissions, one at a time, delivered by hand. No studio, no audience, no plan beyond finishing the next piece properly. The modesty of that beginning is the reason the practice is precise today.
Archive images from this period are being verified before publication.
Every environment changed the language.
Public Art Practice
The practice expanded beyond the studio and into shared environments.
Through murals, installations and participatory projects, Dino creates site-responsive works shaped by the people, histories and institutions connected to each place.
Supported by the CALQ · Included in Public Art Montréal
ÉVASION URBAINE · Montréal · District Central · 2023 · Permanent mural
Workshop · guiding young participants
Art became a language for identity, expression and connection across schools, communities and public spaces.
Public presentation · Bibliothèque de Rivière-des-Prairies
The practice is recognized by the institutions it serves.
The artist established the language.
Atelier Dino is building the environment around it.
Production · Chabanel
Art, environmental responsibility and collective participation, built with the organizations that hold the space.
My environments shaped the practice.
The practice became a philosophy.
The philosophy became a series of initiatives.
Product of My Environment
Environment shapes. Shape it back.