Morel Doucet (born 1990) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and art educator who hails from Haiti. He employs ceramics, illustrations, and prints to examine the impacts of climate gentrification, migration, and displacement affecting communities of the African diaspora. Through a contemporary reimagining of the black experience, his work catalogs a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, personal labor, and race. Drawing from various Indigenous cultures across the globe, he creates whimsical forms that entice and lure the viewer while reminding them of their destruction and complacency of the dying environment.
Doucet's Emmy-nominated work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, including Vogue Mexico, The New York Times, Oxford University Press, Hyperallergic, PBS, WhiteHot Magazine, Hypebeast, and Ebony Magazine. He graduated from the New World School of the Arts with the Distinguished Dean’s Award for Ceramics. From there, he continued his education at the Maryland Institute College of Art, receiving his BFA in Ceramics with a minor in creative writing and a concentration in illustration. Doucet's work is held in collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Tweed Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Plymouth Box Museum, the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Microsoft, Facebook, and Royal Caribbean.
Doucet has received several prestigious awards, including the 2024 Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Award, the 2024 Miami-Dade Individual Artist (MIA) Grant, the 2021 Oolite Art Ellies Creator Award, and the 2020 Green Space Initiative Grant. Doucet has also been nominated for notable awards, such as the 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award.
Doucet has exhibited extensively in national and international institutions, including the African American Museum in Philadelphia (2024), the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco (2024), the Design Museum of Chicago (2023), the Venice Biennale (2022), the Havana Biennial (2019), the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2021), the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture (2023), São Tomé et Príncipe, and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL (2020).
As an Art Educator, he is interested in immersing young audiences in personalized courses that instigate curiosity, sensory perception, and visual literacy.
