Louis Luma

Luma’s talent for revealing the tangible details of his own existence, in multiple surroundings, invites viewers to pause, observe and experience a different sense of time.

In 1950 Louis Luma was born in Port au Prince, Haiti, where he studied at the National School of Art.

There he developed a natural gift for depicting a reality of everyday life in Haiti. He honed an exceptional vision that celebrates simultaneous existence in life: the flow of traffic and abundance in Street markets, of rituals and rites affirming the daily devotion of Vodoun practitioners, and the internal flow, through evocative glimpses of the vibrant, fantastical realm of his own imagination. Luma’s talent for revealing the tangible details of his own existence, in multiple surroundings, invites viewers to pause, observe and experience a different sense of time.