Soly Cissè Senegal, b. 1969

SOLY CISSÉ

Lives and works in Dakar, Sénégal

Born 1969 in Dakar, Sénégal

 

Soly Cissè was born in Dakar in 1969, where he currently lives and works. He graduated from Ecole Nationale de Beaux Arts (Dakar) in 1996. He is a world-famous artist who represents today’s Senegalese artistic vitality at its best. His overflowing creativity can merge, in a creative way, the deep African tradition with the
contemporary excitement and metropolitan languages, such as graffiti art and new technologies. Cissè’s artwork are the expression of his vital energy, of his intellectual dynamism, which allows him to face every aspect of life with great intensity and clarity. He expresses himself by means of painting, sculpture, photography, and installations. In his paintings, hybrid shapes of animals and humans are fused. His subjects interplay in the duality between tradition and modernity. His works are influenced by Francis Bacon and Jean Michel Basquiat.

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS :

2018:

- Physiologus, Kyo Noir Studio, Italia,

- 1-54 New York 2018, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Brooklyn, NY

2017:

- Support Support, Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, UK

2016:

- Le Trait, Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, UK

2015:

- Galerie des Tuiliers, Bruxelles, Belgique

2014:

- Universe/Univers, Hôtel de Ville, Dakar, Sénégal Dreams, M.I.A.

- Gallery, Seattle, USA

- Volta Art Fair, Solo Show, M.I.A. Gallery, New York, USA

2013:

- Tornabuoni, Paris, France

- Galerie des Tuiliers, Lyon, France

2012:

- Lost World, M.I.A Gallery, Seattle, USA - Bestiario, Kyonoir Gallery, -- Viterbo, VT, Italy

- Bestiario, Kyonoir Gallery, Viterbo, Italy

2009 :

-  Solycolor, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France

2008 :

- IFAN Museum, Dakar, Sénégal

2007 :

- Soly Cissé – Être pour devenir, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France

2006 :

- Soly Cissé – Oeuvres Récentes, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris,

- FranceSoly Cisse, Célébration du centenaire de la naissance de Senghor, Verson, France

2005:

- Soly Cissé

– Le Monde perdu, Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea

- Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

- Agence Française de Développement, Paris, France Champs Libres - Afrique, ORCCA, Marnay sur Seine, France

2004

- ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain

- Animismes, Galerie DA Vinci, Nice, France

2002

- Multicultural 2002, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

- Biennale DAK'ART, Dakar, Sénégal

- KuBa Kunsthalle, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

2001

- Galerie ATISS, Dakar, Sénégal

- Prix de la francophone, Montreal, Canada

1999

- Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany

1997

- Centre Culturel Francais, Dakar, Sénégal

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS : 

2018:

- 1-54 Marrakech 2018, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Marrakech, Morocco

2017:

- AKKA 2017, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Paris, France

- TROP COMPRENDRE, Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, UK

- Colour Chart, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2016:

- SAADA 2016, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

- Abstracted, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2015:

- Lumières d’Afriques, African Artists for Development, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France

- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London Primo Marella Gallery, London, UK

- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair New York Primo Marella Gallery, New York, NY

2014:

- Beirut Art Fair, Beyrouth, Liban

- Art Miami, Ethan Cohen New York, Miami, USA

- 1:54 Contemporary African Art 2014, Primo Marella Gallery, London, UK

2007

- TRANS CAPE – Contemporary African Art on the move, Cape Town, South Africa

- Terre Noire – Ousmane Sow et les tendances de la sculpture africaine d’aujourd’hui, Musée Départemental Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en- Laye, France

2006:

- Africa Remix/Contemporary Art of a Continent, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

- 7ème Biennale de l’art africain contemporain Dak’Art 2006, Dakar, Sénégal

- Des Hommes sans Histoire?, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris,

- France Artistes du Sénégal, Musée Dapper, Paris, France

- Expressions africaines, Printemps, Bd Haussmann, Paris, France

2005:

- Foire Internationale des Arts Derniers: Les Afriques 2, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France

- Africa Urbis: Perspectives Urbaines, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France

- Création contemporaine au Sénégal, Galerie Le Manège, Dakar, Sénégal

2004-2005:

- Africa Remix/Zeitgenössische Kunst einer

- Kontinents/Contemporary Art of a Continent/Art contemporain d’un continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany;

- Hayward Gallery, London, UK

- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

- L’Art dans la ville, Out in Africa, Saint-étienne, France

- ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain