Che Lovelace (b. 1969, Port of Spain, Trinidad) paints the constantly intersecting lives of the people, flora, and fauna of his native Trinidad. Infused with rich colors and bold shapes, these paintings straddle the boundary between magical realism and abstraction. His practice increasingly includes elements of performance which he absorbs into his painting process. Lovelace received his training at l’Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de la Martinique and is currently a lecturer at the University of the West Indies Creative Arts Campus. In 2025, he was awarded the French National Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier).
He has had solo exhibitions at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, New York; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas, TX; Corvi-Mora, London, UK; Galerie Éric Hussenot, Paris, France; St James Church, Piccadilly, London; and The National Museum and Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK; Somerset House, London, UK; Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland; Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium; and Vigo Gallery, London, UK.
Lovelace’s work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, CA; and X Museum, Beijing, CH.