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Cheikh Ndiaye

Artist in Residence (contemporary painter and artist, New York/Dakar)

Curriculum Vitae

Cheikh Ndiaye, born 1970 in Dakar, is a contemporary painter and artist. He graduated from the National School of fine Arts in Dakar in 1998. Furthermore he obtained a Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique from the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France, in 2008. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe (e.g. at the Venetian Biennale in 2015), Africa and the United States. His works were honoured with the Natulis Art Temporary prize in Berlin, Germany, in 2012, the Linossier prize in France in 2008, and the Marin Prize for Painting in Paris in 2013. From November 2017 to August 2018 he was Artist in Residence at the Käte Hamburger Center “Law as Culture”.

Project

«L’Arpentage : l’appropriation de l’espace et ses incidences artistiques
dans les villes africaines»

Exhibitions (selected)

Solo exhibitions

2017

  • "Hippocampus", La Maréchalerie, Versailles, France
  • 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, USA

2016

  • "Faire de la rue un salon d'extérieur", Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  •  "Privatisation d'un espace par son ciel", Kër Thiossane, 12th Dakar Biennale, Senegal

2013

  • “(I)n(f)ormal visitation” Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

2012

  • “Cinémas Africa”, Musée Africain, Lyon, France

2000

  • Mairie du 1er arrondissement, Lyon, France • Galerie “Casa manca”, Lyon, France

Group exhibitions

2016

  • "Figures", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • "Qu'il est loin mon pays", Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
  •  "Une collection particulière", Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Fringe of the 12th Dakar Biennale, Senegal

2015

  • ‘‘Présences’’, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • 56th Venice Biennale, ‘‘All the World’s Futures’’, Italy
  • 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, USA

2014

  • Sphères #7, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France
  • 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Somerset House, London, UK
  • ‘‘Group Show’’, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • Dak’Art Off, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Group Show, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, space of the Fondation Total, Dakar, Senegal
  • ‘‘Against the grain: la photographie à contre-courant’’, Centre de Photographie de Genève, Switzerland

2012

  • Dak'Art OFF, Dakar, Sénégal
  • "Sociologie, anthropologie, géographie, histoire, qu'il est vaste le champ cognitif jusqu'à toi mon amour",Piano Nobile, Genève, Suisse
  • ‘‘Cinéma melancholia’’, Pavillon de l’Institut Français, Dakar, Senegal

2010

  • "Extramuros Inhabitus", Galerie Le Manège, Dakar, Sénégal.
  • "Going Places", Dak'art OFF, Sénégal

2009

  • Galerie WM, Lyon, France
  • Art Center, La Halle Pont en Royans, France
  • Worksound Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Blazers boy and girls club, Portland, Oregon, USA

2008

  • Galerie WM, Lyon, France
  •  Art Center, La Halle Pont en Royans, France
  • Worksound Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Blazers boy and girls club, Portland, Oregon, USA