Morel Doucet is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator born in Haiti. Using a variety of mediums including ceramics, illustrations and prints, he examines the realities of climate-gentrification, migration, and displacement within Black diaspora communities. His work catalogs a powerful record of the Black experience through environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, personal labor and race.

Morel graduated from the New World School of the Arts with the Distinguished Dean’s Award for Ceramics. From there, he formalized his education at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), receiving his BFA in Ceramics with a minor in creative writing and concentration in illustration.

A prolific artist, Morel has exhibited extensively in prestigious national and international institutions, including the Havana Biennial; the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami; National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts, Pittsburgh; American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, São Tomé et Príncipe; Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami; and Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami. He has also been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, such as Vogue Mexico, Oxford University Press, Hyperallergic and Hypebeast.

Morel’s current endeavor as the Curriculum and Tour Coordinator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is motivated by his interest in immersing young audiences through personalized courses that instigate curiosity, sensory perception and visual literacy. He is the second commissioned artist of Commissioner Season Three.

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