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LaVaughn Belle is an interdisciplinary artist based in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. She was born in 1974 in Trinidad and Tobago, the child of Barbadian and Trinidadian parents. Moving to St. Croix in 1974, she was educated there, and later, in New York, where she earned a BA in English and Sociology at Columbia College and an MA in Curriculum Design & Teaching Secondary Education at Teacher's College. Belle also earned an MFA in Visual Arts at Cuba's Instituto Superior de Arte, where she studied with Tania Bruguera. Since 2000, Belle has taught art and art history at the University of Virgin Islands in St. Croix.

Belle is an active exhibitor. In Cuba, she created individual interventions and contributed to collective projects, including ones for the 8th Bienniale of Havana in 2003. Her art was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam in 2005 in La Habana. Since 1999, Belle's work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in St. Croix. Belle has participated been in numerous group exhibitions in St. Croix, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Denmark, and the United States. Among these are Caribbean: Crossroads of the World at El Museo del Barrio in New York (2012), Wrestling with the Image at the Arts of Americas Museum in Washington, DC (2011), and Overdragalse (Transfer) in Copenhagen (2008).