Sacha Thébaud (Tebo)

Sacha Thébaud (Tebó) was born on January 22, 1934 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he lived with his family until 1945, when they moved to Montreal, Canada. Tebó, who spoke 7 languages fluently, received his French Baccalaureate from College Stanislaus in Montreal in 1953. Son of a Harvard-educated dental surgeon, whose hobby was engraving and hammering copper into art, Tebó was encouraged at a young age to pursue his studies in architectural engineering, along with Fine Arts.

In 1954, he began his studies in architecture at the University of Miami, and exhibited for the first time at Huber Gallery in Miami, Florida. The highlight of his early years in the U.S. was an American collaboration which included Tebó's participation with artists Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg in "Arte de América y España", which traveled to Hamburg, Paris, and Barcelona.