Career
His painting style is primitive and dreamlike and employs the Pointillism technique of applying small, distinct dots in a pattern to reveal an image. Levoy Exil was born in 1944, in Fermathe, Haiti. Along with Prospere Pierre-Louis, Dieuseul Paul, Denis Smith, and Louisiane Saint Fleurant he formed the renowned Cinq Soleil (Five Suns) art movement.
The Five Suns group formed out of the Saint Soleil movement, of which Levoy Exil was a member and master painter.
His work is well regarded by collectors and he has exhibited in France, Rome, the United States and parts of Asia. Haitian Art historian Seldon Rodman referenced Exil"s paintings in his book “Where Art is Joy: Haitian Art: The First Forty Years”
In 2010, Exil was featured in a Cable News Network article after the earthquake that struck Haiti.
Later that year the Smithsonian Institution sponsored the Folklife Festival in Washington District of Columbia which featured presentations and art work by Levoy Exil and other prominent Haitian artists.