Stephen Arboite

Stephen Arboite (b. 1987, New York City) is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian descent who is now based in Miami. 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 move 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 Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Notable collections include Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. In 2021, he was recognized as a Knight Arts Champion by Knight Foundation.

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Commissioned work:
In the Embrace of Memory
UV print on aluminum, oxidized steel dust, matte medium, collaged paper

Filmed by Alexa Carabia