Marie Martine is a Haitian-American contemporary textile artist whose work explores identity, legacy, and modern cultural expression through sculptural fiber portraiture. A self-taught textile artist, Marie Martine developed her practice independently through disciplined experimentation, transforming hand-tufted and meticulously hand-carved acrylic yarn into dimensional, graphic compositions.

Her most recent work, Roots & Threads, examines the visible and invisible ties that shape identity, ancestry, music, memory, fashion, resilience, and generational influence. Through bold color blocking, strong silhouettes, and carved fiber depth, she constructs portraits that feel both grounded and kinetic, intimate yet powerful.

Influenced by her lived experience as a nurse and the daughter of Haitian immigrants, Marie Martine’s work carries an undercurrent of fragility and strength, a meditation on time, transformation, and presence. Her subjects often embody contemporary Black aesthetics, hip hop energy, matriarchal authority, and the tension between stillness and movement.

Each piece is produced as either a one-of-one original or limited edition framed textile composition, elevating fiber from craft into sculptural contemporary art.