Marie-Denise Douyon (born 1961 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Canadian painter, illustrator and graphic artist.
[3] In the early 1990s, she was arrested, tortured and imprisoned by Haiti's military junta, but was released on February 7, 1991 as part of a general amnesty of Haitian political prisoners.
[5] Douyon's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, France, the United States and in the Caribbean.
[6] In 2004, her work was shown at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris during a bicentennial celebration of Haitian independence.
[7] Douyon integrates found and discarded objects into her art to "reinforce a social collective consciousness" regarding global warming and consumer culture.