Page 14 - 2021 Men of Excellence Awards

The Arts Award

As a Haitian American artist and designer from
South Florida, Harold Caudio started his art career

the very first time he touched a crayon at the tender
age of 5. His most recent collection was featured at
Art Basel Miami 2018 and Art Palm Beach 2019.

Harold created the ‘The Colored Collection’, an
emotion-evoking series of portraits made entirely

out of Skittles.

Word has traveled and continues to spread rapidly
about this collection. It has already been viewed by

millions of people, gone viral on social media sites
and featured in numerous big publications &
networks such as Business Insider, Young Turks,

NBC, ABC World News, Palm Beach Post, LA Times,
Fox News, Wearable Art Gala feat Beyoncé, 60

Minutes and more. Harold Caudio

The inception of Harold’s first Skittles art piece ‘JUSTUS,’ was inspired by the murder of
the late Trayvon Martin, a 17 year-old black boy whose life was taken too soon. All he had

on him was a bag of Skittles and an Arizona iced tea. This story impacted Harold
personally as a black male and he came to the realization of how easily it could have been

him, his son, brother, cousin or friend.

Harold created images of Michael Jackson, Tupac, Xxxtentacion, Bob Marley, Will Smith
and now most recently, Beyoncé and Michelle Obama. Anyone he feels has impacted our

culture/society in a “sweet” way will be immortalized using Skittles.

Harold named his artwork “The Colored Collection” because we, as “colored” people have

had a huge impact on society and culture; we color the world. He wanted to take an insult
and turn it into impactful pop art. The idea of the collection is to bring people together, no

matter their color or background while spreading unity and peace.

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