Born in 1957 in Saint-Pierre, Martinique, Julieth Mars Toussaint crossed the worlds of Parisian haute couture — Paco Rabanne, Givenchy, Saint Laurent — before devoting himself entirely to painting in 1989. His years in Berlin at the mythical Tacheles, his back-and-forth between France and the Caribbean, nourish an unclassifiable body of work.
THE ARTIST
Julieth Mars Toussaint J.M.T. lives and works in the Loiret region (France).
ARTISTIC APPROACH
Blending acrylic painting and mixed media, Julieth Mars Toussaint questions human kinship, ordinary violence, and resilient beauty. Each painting is a collective work — nourished by literature, psychology, and social issues. His compositions occupy a space between the figurative and the abstract, where forms are distorted and decomposed. Words blend with colour like a binding agent. The artist does not title his works on principle — for him, a painting speaks for itself.
"Julieth Mars Toussaint paints pictures, most of them in black and white, with a gesture somewhat reminiscent of Basquiat — but both belong to Caribbean culture." — Olivier Cena, Télérama, 22 octobre 1997
"This joyful pessimist does not paint man, he paints his passage. His work is unclassifiable, without any equivalent." — Galerie Guigon
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Galerie ELHABIBI, Paris
2022 JPS Gallery, Hong Kong
2012 Galerie des Tuiliers, Lyon · Markowicz Fine Art Gallery, Miami
2012 Guadeloupe Fair · Solo exhibition, Martinique
2010 Galerie Guigon, Paris
2009 Galerie Guigon, Paris
1997 Galerie Guigon, Paris
1995–2010 Group exhibitions, Berlin, Paris, Córdoba
TEXTS / PRESS REVIEW
Olivier Cena — Review, Télérama n°2493, 22 octobre 1997
François Monnin — Le sang païen, 2009
Jimmy Anjoure Apourou — Jour de rien, 2014
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