The art of xayvier Andre Haughton

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Xayvier was born in St Catherine, Jamaica, in 1986. He  completed his BFA at the Edna Manley College of the

Visual and Performing Arts in 2014 and is currently enrolled at the School of Visual Arts New

York. His final year project explored issues around Jamaican fatherhood and masculinity. His work

was featured in the Jamaica Biennial 2014 2017 and the Jamaica Cultural Development

Commission (JCDC)’s National Visual Arts Exhibition and Competition in 2015, as well as at the

Red Easel pop-up gallery in 2016 and was part of a three-man exhibition Dark Matter at the

CAGE Gallery his work is focused on what he calls the “Afrikan” consciousness and Spirituality. He

completed his MFA in fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York.