Vidho Lorville's artwork is currently part of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation art collection (New Orleans, Louisiana - art collection purchased in 2014), the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois - installation commission 2010), the McKenna Museum of African American Art (New Orleans, Louisiana - art collection purchased in 2002).
Vidho Lorville's fine art work received rewards and fellowships from art institutions including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation 2011, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation 2006, the Joan Mitchell Foundation 2006 among others. Between 2005 and 2006, he was one of the selected artists for the studio space program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC with an artist grant from the Andy Warhol foundation. In the summer of 2002 he was a selected artist participant of the Skowhegan Art School of Painting and Sculpture residency program. Lorville's art exhibitions across the US and abroad are subjects to positive art reviews by art critics from several establish publications.
In New York, Vidho Lorville's artwork was featured by NY1 news channel by reporter Stephanie Simon in a conversation with Winton Marsalis about the connection among different art forms. Vidho Lorville exhibited his body of work made in New Orleans, LA around this subject at Lincoln Center in response to Winton Marsalis premier musical composition entitled: "Jazz at Lincoln Center Brings Congo Square Vibe to Big Apple" in May 6th, 2006." The New York Times article published an interview with Vidho Lorville about his work experience as a visual artist titled : "New Orleans through the prism of Art" by Joseph Berger in March 16th, 2006. The article featured Lorville's art studio located in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC space program.
Vidho Lorville had also published many essays about his artwork that were highly regarded by lectors of different social and news media.
The NY Arts Magazine in July 2009 published a text by Vidho Lorville titled "Unbearable Barrel." The written piece was about a conceptual intent of a multi media and found object installation made by the artist over the issue of immigration. The artwork was made during a two months time frame of an artist in residency program at Le Chateau de la Napoule in the Azure Coast of southern France.
Journalist and HBO film editor Lolas Eric Elie will be the first American writer to publish an interview with Vidho Lorville for the New Orleans Times Picayune news paper titled "For Haitian painter art is a gray area," in October 26th, 2001. The article was about the body of work of Lorville first solo art show in the crescent city that was currently on display.
In the following year, art critic Doug McCash of the Times Picayune, wrote an article about Vidho Lorville second solo art exhibition in New Orleans titled "Fantasy Paintings Contain Harsh Realities" in May 24th 2002. The Gambit Weekly, another notorious New Orleans publication had published two consecutive reviews on Vidho Lorville solo art shows entitled: "Secret Messages" May 14th 2002 and "Different Environments" in October 30th 2001 both article wrote by writer D. Eric Bookhardt. In January 17th 2010, the Washington Post featured Vidho's article where he shares his personal opinions and hopes dealing with the possible harsh reality during the night of Haiti's earthquake of January 12, 2010. In spring 2012, CARTS Magazine in New York City published an article featuring Lorville's community outreach project in Haiti that is involving local artists doing hailing through the art program working with children in public schools and orphanages. In 2011, the program took the initiative to connect children of New Orleans and Haiti through the making of a public art project of a mural which documenting and sharing their respective experiences of a natural disaster survivors of these two places.
Vidho Lorville is currently living in the city of New York where he continues to make artwork and teach the visual arts in the city's five boroughs.
Art Galleries and Institutions Affiliation
Museum Permanent Collection
2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Museum, New Orleans, LA, USA
2010 The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, USA
2003 The McKenna Museum of African American Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
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2011 |
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation |
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2007 |
Henry Clews Memorial Art Foundation |
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2007 |
The Wheeler Foundation |
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2006 |
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation |
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2006 |
Joan Mitchell Foundation |
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2005 |
Andy Warhol Foundation through "The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council" |
Solo Exhibitions
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2011 |
Caribbean Cultural Center, NY, NY "Standing With Papa Legba" |
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2010 |
Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, LA "Aye-Ti Mounn Yo," |
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2010 |
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL "Day of the Dead," |
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2010 |
United Nation South Gallery, NY, NY "400 Years of Struggle" |
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2008 |
McKenna Museum of African American Art, "Standing With Papa Legba" NOLA |
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2007 |
Mediatheque De Suresnes, Suresnes, France "Untitled" |
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2007 |
Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, LA "New Orleans Expose" |
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2007 |
Le Chateau de La Napoule, Mandelieux, France "New Orleans Expose" |
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2006 |
Tribeca Open Studio, 200 Hudson St, NY,NY "Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Program Exhibition" |
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2006 |
Bergdorf Goodman, NY, NY "Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Program Exhibition" |
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2006 |
Jazz At Lincoln Center, NY, NY "Showcase" |
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2006 |
The Hewitt Gallery of Fine Art, NY, NY "showcase" |
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2006 |
Tribes Gallery, NY, NY "showcase" |
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2006 |
Bronx River Art Center Gallery, Bronx, NY "showcase" |
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2004 |
New Orleans African American Museum of Art, "showcase" New Orleans, LA |
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2003 |
Atelier Gallery, NY, NY "showcase" |
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2002 |
Gallery Six, Fort Lauderdale, FL "showcase" |
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1998 |
Tebo Touche d’Art, Petion Ville, Haiti "showcase"
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Bibliography
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THE WASHINGTON POST, "Artist Looking for his daughter After Earthquake in Haiti" by Vidho Lorville, Washington D.C, 01/17/2010 |
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NY ARTS MAGAZINE, " Unbearable Barrel" by Vidho Lorville, New York 07/2009 |
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PIONNER NEWS, " Haitian artist observes culture with art" by Lilli Kuzma, Chicago, IL, 12/19/2007 |
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CANNE MATIN, "La Nouvelle Orleans expose ses artists au chateau" by L.L., Mandelieu-La Napoule, France, 3/3/07 |
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AMERICAN STYLE MAGAZINE, "Manhattan Transfer" by Lee Lawrence, October 2006 |
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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, "NOLA artists living in New York" by Leslie Ann Murray, 8/30/06 |
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MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK, Channel 34 "Ancestor House" by Camille Yarbrough, 8/26/06 |
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NY1 NEWS, "Jazz at Lincoln Center Brings Congo Square Vibe to Big Apple" by Stephanie Simon, 5/6/06 |
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NEW YORK TIMES, "New Orleans through the prism of Art" by Joseph Berger, 3/16/06 |
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COLOMBIA SPECTATOR, "... Tired of Living in Limbo" by Lauren Hovel," 1/25/06 |
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VILLAGE VOICES, "The Heart Breaking Hotel" by Tommy Hallisey, 10/13/05 |
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THE TIMES PICAYUNE, "Artist’s Studio Open for a day" by Perry Kesprzak, 6/9/05 |
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PUBLISHER: LIGHT OF NEW ORLEANS PUBLISHING, Book Cover, Artist/Illustrator for Southern Fried Divorce, 2003 |
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REUTERS, "Haitian Painters Find Buyers Online" by Micheal Deibert, 7/29/02 |
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PUBLISHER: VIE AND ART COLLECTION, Featured in Haitian Art In The Diaspora by Michel Lerebours, 2002 |
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THE TIMES PICAYUNE, "Fantasy Paintings Contain Harsh Realities" by Doug McCash, 5/24/02 |
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GAMBIT WEEKLY, "Secret Messages" by D. Eric Bookhardt, 5/14/02 |
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GAMBIT WEEKLY, "Different Environments" by D. Eric Bookhardt, 10/30/01 |
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THE TIMES PICAYUNE, "For Haitian painter art is a gray area" by Lolas Eric Elie, 10/26/01 |