Daveed Baptiste is an interdisciplinary designer and artist whose work incorporates fashion design, textile design, and photography. He draws inspiration from his migration from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Miami, Florida. Through projects like Haiti to Hood and Ti Maché, Baptiste explores themes of migration and cultural preservation within the Haitian community and the larger Caribbean diaspora, reclaiming African diasporic futures and narratives.
Baptiste was recently awarded the prestigious CFDA Empowered Vision Award and is a 2026 RAISEfashion Fellow. In 2026, he released a four-piece denim collaboration with GAP and Harlem’s Fashion Row, which sold out internationally.
His acclaimed photography series Haiti to Hood, celebrated in The New Yorker (2019), links nostalgia to materiality. In 2022, Baptiste was awarded a year-long apprenticeship with Converse, co-designing the Black Joy Collection and new designs for the Energy basketball team. He has exhibited at New York University and the Aperture Foundation and debuted his solo exhibition, Ti Maché (2023), at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), marking the release of his first fashion collection. Baptiste is currently presenting a solo fashion and art exhibition at Materials for the Arts, following the completion of a year-long residency.