Bernard Séjourné studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Port-au-Prince, the Jamaica School of Arts and Crafts in Kingston, the Students' League, and the American Art School in New York. He exhibited at Calfou and the Esso Salon in Port-au-Prince in 1965. He participated in the Festival of Black Art held in Dakar in 1956, at the Montreal Expo in 1957, and the French Institute of Haiti in 1972. Several museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, the museum at St Pierre's College, and Musee d'art Nader, also exhibited his work. Painter and sculptor Séjourné was among the best-known artists of the School of Beauty, which honors women. " Sejourné's mastery of space and volume create near-abstract works of referential elements." Peintres Haitiens, Gerald Alexis, Editions Cercle d'Art, 2000. Baron Phillipe de Rothschild commissioned one of Bernard Séjourné's best works, a trio of masks rising from the dark, to label his 64th legendary vintage Mouton Rothschild 1986.