My work centers the female body as a site of origin, transformation, and power. I draw from memory, spirituality, and lived experience to think through how history lives in the body and how identity is shaped by inheritance, migration, and belief. My paintings move between the material and the unseen, where spirits and symbolic forms act as carriers of meaning.
I work with oil paint alongside wood, iron, and stone, building layered surfaces that hold both physical weight and spiritual presence. Through restraint and accumulation, I return to cycles of life and death, love and war, and the forces through which worlds are made and unmade.
Lewinale Havette.
Lewinale Havette’s work has been recognized through exhibitions at leading museums and international art fairs, including Art Cologne, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, the Masur Museum of Art, Wehrmühle Museum, the 1–54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Untitled Art Fair Miami, and the Aspen Art Fair. She was also represented by the Pérez Art Museum Miami at Art Basel Miami.
