Tessa Mars

Tessa Mars is a Haitian visual artist whose work explores questions of gender, landscape, migration, and spirituality in relation to Haiti’s history. She graduated from the University of Rennes 2 (2006) and completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2020–2022). She lives and works in Port-au-Prince. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Casa del Lago (Mexico City, 2024), Maison Dufort (Port-au- Prince, 2019), the French Institute in Port-au-Prince (2016), and Alice Yard (Port of Spain, 2015).
She has participated in group exhibitions, including at MAC Panama (Panama City, 2026), Ocean Space (Venice, 2025) as part of the TBA21–Academy program, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Juan (2025), the Denver Art Museum (2022), the South London Gallery (2022), Framer Framed (Amsterdam, 2022), as well as BRIC Arts (Brooklyn, 2018), the Power Plant Gallery at Duke University (Durham, 2018), and the Musée du Pantheon National Haïtien (Port-au-Prince, 2014). Mars also participated in the 3rd Toronto Biennial of Art (2024), Prospect.6 in New Orleans (2024) and the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018). She was part of the inaugural Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).
Her work is held in the following collections: Kadist Collection, John and Sandy Fox Collection of Latin American art / Denver Art Museum, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art and Museum of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint- Paul.