Ronald Bazile, aka CHEBY, was born in 1980 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and grew up in
the Grand Rue (Main Street), heart of the capital city.

Grand Rue is home to generations of wood workers who produced vessels, masks and figurative sculptures. In homage to his father Ronald Bazile, who died in 2007, Cheby began using his parent’s name as his artist moniker. Trained as an electrician and cobbler, he turned to art when jobs became scarce, as is the tradition in the Grand Rue. He apprenticed under Jean Celeur, one of the founding members of Atis Rezistans, also known as Artists of the Grand Rue, an artist collective whose members have been creating sculptures since the 1970s. For the last 15 years, Cheby has mastered wood sculpture techniques and the aesthetics of bricolage, piecing together scrap metal from the surrounding car repair shops and neighborhoods. His hybrid working methods reflect the piecing together of life in the Grand Rue. He has shown his work in important galleries and museums in Europe and the United States.