1998 Wind Challenge Artist
An artist from Haiti who arrived in Philadelphia in the 1990s, Frito Bastien began painting on canvas at thirteen, when the well-known Haitian painter Celestin Faustin took him under his wing. The Bastien family moved to Port-au-Prince in 1969, where the young artist continued his schooling and learned the crafts of cabinet making and carpentry. Since living in Philadelphia, Bastien has worked with Mural Arts to create numerous murals throughout the city.
