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John Garcon, born July 6, 1959 in Port-au-Prince is a Haitian painter.

Youth
John is the youngest of a family of four. His parents saw his penchant for art and music, and at the age of five enrolled him in a religious music and drawing class.

At the age of nine, he painted a portrait of Christ as he is currently illustrated. In 1981, he attended for 2 years the French Institute of Haiti, which had just introduced a course of aesthetics and History of Art. At the same time, he studied law and accounting. His passion for painting took over that of music to the point of devoting more time to studying the technique of masters of the Baroque and Italian classics.

Career
Garçon in general approaches series so that it makes a story aesthetically motivated and developed according to the interest of the subject. He is currently preparing exhibitions with the theme of a return to African sources..

Garçon is internationally known and his work is exhibited in several countries such as United States, Canada, Italy, France, Brazil …

His portrait of Toussaint Louverture was published in "Who's Who In International Art" (Encyclopaedia published in Geneva, Switzerland). Other works are published in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (Italy)).

Decorations and distinctions
John Garçon is a member of the Greci-Marino International Academy which has honored him twice in 2001 as Associate Academician Dfts Arts

2003 : « Academician Knight »

2003 : The Alba Gallery of Italy awards him a diploma of artistic merit and a gold medal.

2016 : International Tiepolo Prize.

2017 : Raffaello Trophy of Italy: Raphael is a contemporary painter of Leonardo da Vinci (fifteenth century).

2018 : He receives the International Leonardo da Vinci Prize, the Universal artist.