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Jérôme Havre is a Toronto based artist originally from Paris, France with Martinique origins.

Biography
Jerome Havre's family emigrated from Martinique to France. When asked if he identified as Caribbean he replied "not really". Havre studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He experimented with different mediums during his enrollment, including silk printing, printing techniques, painting, and video. He continues to work in various materials and methods, including portraiture, sculpture, and digital printing, in which he combines in his exhibitions like "Fiction and Legend".

Works
Fibred Optics is a collaborative exhibition created by Jérôme Havre, Frances Dorsey, Ed Pien, and Michėle Provost. The exhibition was held at Ottawa Art Gallery from November 26, 2009 to February 14, 2010, and curated by Andrea Fatona. Havre uses mixed media textiles to produce a series of human life figures in his Hybrid series as part of the collaboration. Some figures have distorted body parts. They have been used in other exhibitions by Havre.

Liminal

The Poetry of Geopolitics was shown at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto in 2016. Havre's French and Canadian Passports were contained in a box, addressing identity and migration.

Magnifique Isolation

Fictions and legends was a collaborative exhibition in 2013-2014 with Heather Goodchild focusing on textiles.

Havre participated in the [Art Gallery of Ontario|Art Gallery of Ontario's] Artist in Residence Program in 2016 where he worked on a video project using puppets while in residence, alongside a puppet-making workshop.

Legacy was an exhibition presented at Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Canada. Havre created several puppets portraying historical black figures involved in the arts, and made GIFs of them.

Land Marks was a 2015 exhibit at the Art Gallery of Peterborough consisting of Havre and 4 other artists: Brendan Fernandes, Susan Gold, Wendy Coburn,and Mary Anne Barkhouse.

He showed an installation titled Six Degrees of Separation (2013) which refers to the Underground Railroad and the journey that African slaves made, and how it forms identity. Identity is a common theme among Havre's works.