Stephen Arboite (b.1987) is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian descent, born and raised in New York City, and now based in Miami, Florida. Primarily self-taught, he builds upon his foundational studies in drawing and painting at Purchase College to explore memory, space, and cultural identity through a material language of coffee, fire, natural pigments, and mixed-media collage.

His process-driven works transform the surface into layered textures, in which fragments of imagery moves between what is visible and what remains obscured. Through material experimentation, Arboite’s practice examines how memory, spirituality, and identity reveal personal and collective histories embedded in the present.

Arboite’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including T&Y Projects in Tokyo, Sperone Westwater in New York, and MOCAD Detroit. Notable collections include the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. In 2021, he was recognized as a Knight Arts Champion by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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