St. Vincent and Grenadines Fine Artist
Robert Joyette is a multidisciplinary fine artist from the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, whose work channels the spirit of resistance, ancestral memory, and cultural reclamation. A graduate of the esteemed Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, Robert’s practice spans painting, mixed media, and visual storytelling—rooted deeply in Caribbean identity and global Black Indigenous struggle.
With bold color, raw emotion, and layered symbolism, Robert's art confronts the injustices faced by native and brown peoples around the world. His work holds space for grief, resilience, and spiritual power—bridging the past with the present. Whether depicting colonial violence or sacred ancestral visions, each piece stands as a powerful testament to survival and sovereignty.
Robert is best known for his unflinching portrayal of historical erasure, cultural genocide, and the enduring strength of his people. His art is not only visually striking but soulfully charged—a call to remember who we are and where we come from.
Through exhibitions, public art, and collaborative projects, Robert Joyette continues to amplify silenced voices and elevate the global conversation on decolonization and identity. He paints not for the gallery, but for the people—for those who have been unseen for far too long.
Rise Collection | Livity Tree Art
Robert Joyette’s Rise Collection emerges from the tremors of history—both literal and metaphorical. It is a testament to Haiti, the first free Black republic, a nation born from revolution yet burdened by centuries of oppression.
When earthquakes shattered Haiti in 2010 and again in 2021, the world saw devastation, but Robert’s art looks deeper—into the resilience of a people who have been tested by more than natural disasters. His brush speaks of the unnatural earthquakes Haiti has endured: colonial exploitation, economic sanctions, political destabilization, and systemic oppression designed to keep the first liberated Black nation in chains long after slavery was abolished.
The Rise Collection does not paint despair—it paints defiance. In each stroke, there is the spirit of the ancestors who fought for freedom in 1804, the unbroken will of the people who continue to survive against the weight of empire, and the vision of a future where Haiti’s brilliance cannot be buried beneath rubble or propaganda.
Through this collection, Robert calls us to rise as Haiti has risen again and again—scarred but unbroken, shaken but not silenced. His art transforms struggle into strength, honoring Haiti as both a mirror of Black Indigenous resilience and a symbol of resistance that speaks to oppressed peoples everywhere.
🔗 Learn more about hidden histories and the ongoing struggles of Black and Indigenous peoples at Livity.blog.
Black Native Collection | Livity Tree Art
Robert Joyette’s work is rooted in remembrance and resistance. His brush does not just paint—it resurrects. Through bold lines and striking cultural symbolism, Robert brings forward the silenced history of Black Natives, both in the Americas and the Caribbean, whose stories were erased under colonial rule.
One of the darkest chapters in this erasure was the 1924 Racial Integrity Act in Virginia. Under this law, Native peoples of darker complexion were stripped of their identity and forcibly reclassified as “Negro” on official records. This bureaucratic violence severed bloodlines, erased tribal recognition, and fueled a broader campaign of Black Native genocide—the systematic destruction of Indigenous communities who stood at the crossroads of African and Native ancestry.
Robert’s art refuses that silence. His work confronts the colonial violence that labeled, divided, and erased, and instead reclaims the living truth: that Black Natives have always existed, both in North America and the Caribbean. In islands across the Caribbean, Indigenous Carib and Kalinago bloodlines were blended with African ancestry, only to be targeted again by genocide, slavery, and forced assimilation.
By capturing these stories in color and form, Robert calls us to witness, to remember, and to resist. His work is a visual act of survival, a declaration that the ancestors are still here, speaking through art.
🔗 For a deeper exploration into this history and the truth of Black Native genocide, visit Livity.blog.
Votive Venus | Livity Tree Art
Robert Joyette’s Votive Venus is a radiant tribute to the Aboriginal Caribbean woman—the keeper of memory, resilience, and sacred continuity.
In this work, Venus is not the Greco-Roman goddess idealized through a colonial lens, but reimagined through the strength and beauty of the Carib and Kalinago women whose bloodlines endured genocide, enslavement, and forced assimilation. These women carried culture in their bodies, language in their songs, and resistance in their silence when history tried to erase them.
The title Votive Venus invokes the ancient practice of offering votive figures as prayers or dedications to the divine. Robert transforms this concept into an act of remembrance: a votive to the Aboriginal Caribbean woman, whose survival itself is a form of worship, a sacred offering to future generations.
Through luminous tones and form, the painting speaks to the resilience of women who endured the violence of colonization, the systemic erasure of Black Natives across the Americas, and the ongoing struggles of identity in the Caribbean diaspora. Yet in her stance, there is not defeat but dignity. She is the original goddess of these lands, rooted in earth and sea, standing as testimony that Indigenous beauty and spirit cannot be erased.
The Votive Venus is not only art—it is prayer, resistance, and ancestral homage. It asks us to honor the women who were the first mothers of the Caribbean and to continue their legacy of strength, sovereignty, and survival.