Artist Bio + Statement

Rachel Domond is a self taught, queer Haitian artist and community organizer based in Boston. She is a painter, working mainly with acrylic, a printmaker, a digital artist and a muralist.

Rachel Domond's art explores themes of land, sovereignty and pride in home, drawing from the revolutionary and traditional cultural motives of peoples’ movements both in the U.S. and abroad, past and present. She most often refers to the relationship between Black - namely, Haitian and Caribbean women - and the working of the land, while drawing on the power of coumbite, a traditional Haitian practice of the collective, all while connecting these concepts to the urban setting in which many immigrants find themselves in, namely in Boston. She generally seeks to make art that speaks to working peoples’ realities under the global systems that keep us disenfranchised and disempowered, while highlighting the beauty, pride and power of the roots from which we’ve grown as peoples’ movements past and present.