Rotchild Choisy’s transfer drawings Strike a pause/pose or wear your emotions! (2023) explore “the way multiple identities can be formed and performed by wearing masks in social situations and in private.” Using drawing, photomontage and automatic writing, he questions how the figures’ bodies, clothing, and masks can communicate emotions that often go unspoken.

Rotchild Choisy is a multidisciplinary artist from Haiti, based in Moncton, New Brunswick. A graduate in Visual Arts (2022) from the Université de Moncton, he explores identity, emotions, and social interactions. He is also interested in the dialogue between plastic media, both in the creative process and in the context of installation. He has received several leadership awards, as well as the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Merit Award in 2020. In 2024, he was named one of the Top 20 Under 40 by the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce. In 2023, he was selected as a Studio Watch Artist by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, where he began an artist residency in 2024. During this residency, he developed his project The Sons We Are Because Matant Was There. His recent projects include solo exhibitions exploring research from the E.S.M.I. and Strike a Pause/Pose or Wear Your Emotions! projects, as well as his participation in the Alternative Art Fair of Sudbury and Dialogues Riopelle in 2023. He showcased his work at the Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre and also exhibited Pi, Âme masquée, Pitanm maske at the Galerie Françoise-Chamard-Cadieux in 2024. His recent work explores the mask as a tool for identity transformation and adaptation, blending poses, clothing, and photo-performances to interrogate human behavior in both intimate and social contexts.