Roudy Azor

(Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1980 - )

Haitian

Roudy Azor is a master of the densely beaded style of drapo Vodou, or Vodou flags, pioneered by Myrlande Constant. When Constant left her work at a wedding dress factory and formed her studio, several of the women who had worked alongside her at the factory joined her workshop as assistants. Azor became one of the first male members of Constant’s atelier, working there for a time before forming his own studio in 1998, at the age of eighteen. Like Constant, Azor works primarily with the symbolism and pantheon of Vodou. However, the artist has shown a talent for taking the Vodou canon in new directions, with a vivid imagination and a free interpretation of relatively obscure Vodou lwa (spirits).

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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