Birth | Born in 1977 in Senegal |
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Residence | Lives and works in Dakar, Senegal |
Education | ECAV-MAPS Arts in Public Spheres, Sierre, Switzerland Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Geneva, Switzerland Ecole National des Beaux-Arts, Senegal |
2024 | Clin d’œil à Cheikh Anta Diop - Un continent à le recherche de son histoire, Siège de l’Organisation des Nations Unies, New York, USA TEMPLON, Paris, France |
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2023 | Destins Communs, Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France |
2022 | Omar Ba: Political Animals, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA Clin d’oeil, FIAF Gallery, New York, USA Right of Soil – Right to Dream, Templon, New York, USA A Journey Beyond Illusion / Voyage au-delà de l’illusion, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium |
2021 | Sommation, Wilde, Basel, Switzerland Anomalies, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium |
2020 | Same Dream, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada |
2019 | Omar Ba : Visions partagées, Montreal Museum of Fina Arts, Montreal, Canada Same Dream, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada The power of objects, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland |
2018 | Autopsie de nos consciences, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
2020 | Global(e) Resistance, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
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2019 | From the Paper to the Wall, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgique |
2018 | 40 ans de passion, Omar Ba, Prune Nourry, Tunga, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France Quel Amour ?!, Musée d’art Contemporain, Marseille, France Afrique. Artistes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Fondation Clément, Martinique, France D’Afrique aux Amériques: Picasso en face-à-face, d’hier à aujourd’hui, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada |
2017 | Zoocryptage, Crypte Sainte-Eugénie, Biarritz, France Afrique, raconter le monde, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy Le Havre – Dakar, Partager la mémoire, Muséum d'histoire naturelle du Havre, France Art/Afrique, Le Nouvel Atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France En toute modestie – Archipel Di Rosa, Miam Sète, Sète, France Festival Afropolitan, Bozar Brussels, Belgique |
2016 | Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France Mauvaises Graines 2, Topographie de l'Art, Paris, France You Go To My Head, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium |
2014 | Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Ici l’Afrique/ Here Africa. L’Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland Authentik Energie, Le Manoir de la ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland |
2013 | Collective II, Gallery GuyBärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland VITALIC, Hales Gallery, London, UK I’m your neighbour !, Bromer Art Collection, Roggwil, Switzerland Primitive Cabaret : A Spiritual Voodoo confrontation, Gallery Polad-Hardouin, Paris, France Situation 2, Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland Utopie picturale, Villa Dutoit, Geneva, Switzerland |
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France | |
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain (FMAC) de la ville de Paris, France | |
Collection du Credit Suisse, Switzerland | |
Collection Louis Vuitton Fondation, France | |
Collection Mirabaud, Switzerland | |
Collection Nationale Suisse, Basel, Switzerland | |
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain (FMAC) de la ville de Genève, Switzerland |
2022 | Omar Ba, Galerie Templon |
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2019 | Omar Ba, Same Dream, No. 8, The Power Plant Pages, The Power Plant Contemporary Ar Gallery, under the edirtorship of Gaëtane Verna, Toronto, Canada |
2016 | Exhibition catalogue, Mauvaises Graines, Edition Topographie de l'Art, Paris, France |
2014 | Omar Ba, La Prophétie des Gens de Durban / The Prophecy of the People of Durban, Hales Gallery, Paris, France |
Omar Ba
Omar Ba, in conversation with Emann Odufu
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Qui est Omar Ba, l'artiste qui fait sensation en "réinventant" la peinture ?
Reportage à Bambilor de Lucie Peytermann
L'exposition "Anomalies", de l'artiste sénégalais Omar Ba
Une oeuvre à la loupe
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts : Omar Ba
The Artist : Omar Ba
Solo Show
United Nations Headquarters, New York
From May 7 to May 17, 2024
Omar Ba’s work Clin d’œil à Cheikh Anta Diop-Un continent à la recherche de son histoire is this month on view at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York. This project is presented in collaboration with The French Institute Alliance Française. With this wall-sized painting, the artist pays tribute to Senegalese historian and politician Cheikh Anta Diop. This exhibition highlights the cultural relations between France and Senegal, Francophonie as well as our shared heritage.
La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse
Through October 29, 2023
Omar Ba’s solo show Destins Communs at La Kunsthalle in Mulhouse is on view until October 29, 2023.
Baltimore Museum of Art, United States
Through April 2, 2023
On November 20, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open the first U.S. museum exhibition of works by acclaimed Senegalese contemporary artist Omar Ba. With Omar Ba: Political Animals, the BMA introduces audiences to the incredible conceptual, social, and political relevance of Ba’s oeuvre as well as to his distinct formal approach, which combines the fine detail associated with drawing and the scale and grandeur of history paintings.
Omar Ba - Focus
Fine Arts Museum, Belgium
From April 1st to August 7, 2022
Omar Ba’s work is characterized by its enigmatic nature and its great poetic intensity. In contrast with a didactic narrative, he rather seeks to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of reality. The artist deals with themes such as chaos, destruction, and dictatorship, draping his political discourse in a veil of poetry through a pictorial language that is entirely his own, both fierce and delicate.
From September 17, 2020 to January 31, 2021
Contemporary Calgary, 701 11 Street SW, Calgary, Canada
Same Dream brings together several of Ba’s paintings depicting dictators and authority figures, who lead to corrupt and violent regimes across the African continent and in other parts of the world, particularly where the legacies of colonialism persist. At times represented as hybrid beasts—part human, part animal— these despotic warlords are typically enveloped in an abundance of lush flora and fauna. Indeed, nature becomes a recurring force across Ba’s oeuvre.
From July 29 to January 4, 2021
Centre Pompidou, Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris
The exhibition ‘Global(e) Restitance’ reveals for the first time, more than sixty artists reunited for the last century around the question of “resitance”, including Senegalese Omar Ba and South African artist Billie Zangewa.
The exhibition that collects many work from many different medium and countries, questions the theoretical and esthetical relationship between politics and art. The idea of resisting, studied through the handling of politic as well as art for activism, as always been experienced by artists under oppression and inequalities.
MBAM, MONTREAL, CANADA From 30/05/2019 to 10/11/2019
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting the first Canadian monographic exhibition dedicated to Omar Ba, one of the most influential artists of his generation. Omar Ba : same Dream showcases a selection of Ba’s major works from different periods in his career. In addition, the artist is creating a large-scale mural for the Montreal public, directly on one of the gallery walls. Ba’s work is at once a bold critique of tyranny, a celebration of the strength of the human spirit and an ode to the resilience of the world’s youth.
THE POWER PLANT, TORONTO, CANADAFrom 26/01/2019 to 12/05/2019
The Power Plant presents Omar Ba’s first institutional solo exhibition.Omar Ba’s work engages with some of the most urgent issues of our time: the growing inequality of wealth and power globally, questions around immigration, and our changing relationship with the natural world. His penchant for depicting personal narratives alongside collective ones speaks to the“in-between” condition of his work, as he splits his time between Dakar, Senegal and Geneva, Switzerland, and blends the visual texture of both places through his practice. Ba draws from and intertwines a range of elements— the historical and contemporary, figurative and abstract imagery—from African and European cultures, and the techniques and tools he employs; including corrugated cardboard and canvas, paintbrushes and his hands. Additionally, Ba’s chosen materials are typically selected from his immediate surroundings and repurposed in creative ways. He prepares his surfaces—whether cardboard, canvas or wall—with a black ground, upon which he layers a vivid palette dominated by primary colours. His paintings teem with details as micro-worlds transpire within larger constellations, oscillating between bold planes of colour and intricate outlines, which unravel across their surfaces. The figures and forms portrayed are largely symbolic, referring not to specific individuals, but rather open to universal narratives. Same Dream brings together several of Ba’s paintings depicting dictators and authority figures, who lead corrupt and violent regimes across the African continent and in other parts of the world, particularly where the legacies of colonialism persist. At times represented as hybrid beasts—part human, part animal— these despotic warlords are typically enveloped in an abundance of lush flora and fauna. Indeed, nature becomes a recurring force across Ba’s oeuvre. These biomorphic shapes are often inspired by Senegal’s dazzling coastal environment in which Ba grew up. In conversation with this group of paintings, the exhibition also presents works that reveal Ba’s affinity for portraying the strength of the human spirit –depictions of youth who, regardless of where they are, share some of the same dreams for the future. For the exhibition at The Power Plant, Ba has developed a new large-scale work directly on the walls of the gallery, exploring a recurrent motif of birth, death and reincarnation across different cultures today. The world of Omar Ba’s painting is a hybrid one, ultimately evoking a shared cosmogony between humans, plants and animals. Event January 26, 1.00 pm, Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Center, Free admission : In Conversation, Omar Ba & Nabila Abdel Nabi. In this program, Omar Ba will discuss the evolution of his work with Associate Curator Nabila Abdel Nabi. The two will expand on the exhibition themes of the human spirit and the shared dreams and desires for the future. This conversation will conclude with questions from the audience. Curator: Nabila Abdel Nabi.