Untitled Document Iris (Genevieve Lahens) was born in 1959 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She received her diploma from the "Genie Civila la Faculte des Sciences". After she got a diploma in architecture at the school of "Beaux-Arts" in Paris, she did an entrepreneurship at the agency of architecture in Pointe-a-Pitre, in Guadeloupe. Iris received a price for great designing at the " Biennale of architecture in the Caribbean in Santo Domingo", Dominican Republic. Iris started a whole new career as a painter.
Some exhibitions
1992: Afrah Gallery- Thomassin, Haiti.
1994: Fanal Gallery, "Ink on Paper"-Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1995: Ritz Gallery – Petion-Ville, Haiti. 1996, "Indigo"{ - Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe (France)/ Musee du Pantheon National, Haiti.