born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1970
lives and works in Chicago, Illinois

Courtesy
SPECTA
Peder Skrams Gade 13
DK-1054 Copenhagen K
www.specta.dk
+45 3313 0123
info@specta.dk

Education
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Dakar, Senegal
San Francisco Art Institute MFA

Selected exhibitions
2024
Black Venezia, 193 Gallery, Paris, FR
Also Known As Africa Fair (represented by 193 Gallery), Paris, FR
CHART Art Fair (represented by SPECTA), Copenhagen, DK
Seeing Lumumba, performative installation, West Town Pop-Up Gallery, Chicago, IL
Homesick (duo with Johannes Sivertsen), SPECTA, Copenhagen, DK
Echoes of Xippi, August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA
EXPO Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Ok So We're Fighting, Old Friends Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023
1-54 Art Fair, London, UK
Conflicts of Freedom, Povos Gallery, Chicago, IL
We are Enough, Gallery 193, Paris, FR
Residency 025245 PICMOL, Brussels, BE
10 Artists, 10 Days, NOMAD Gallery, Brussels, BE
Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
LOVE Still Not the Lesser, MoCP at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
EXPO Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Black Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Unseen Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2022
Memory Palace, Instituto de Vision, New York, NY
Dak’Art 2022 Oficial Exhibition, Dakar, SN
Solo exhibition, Guelen Gallery, Dakar, SN
The Faces of our Guardians, Armando Cabral Mercado, New York, NY
Poetics of Selfhood, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Utopia Land, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
Art in Embassies, US Department of State Embassy, Dakar, SN
2021
Abstraction & Social Critique, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sarah Peters - Modou Dieng, Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY
SFAI 150, A spirit of disruption, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Domesticity, Volery Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2020
Dak’Art Biennial Official Selection, Dakar, SN
Post-Colonial Landscape, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2019
From Saint-Louis to St-Louis, projects+gallery, St. Louis, MO
Untitled, ART Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
2017
Art OMI, Residency, NY
Crow Shadow Institute of the Arts, Residency, OR
2016
Pulsar, Residency, Antwerp, BE
2015
No Such Place, Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Art in Embassies, US Department of State Embassy, Dakar, SN
Portland Biennial, Center for Contemporary Arts, Portland, OR
2013
Emerging, Visual Arts in post Hip Hop, Museum of African and Diaspora Art, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Flow, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY

Collections
Studio Museum NY
National Museum Of African Art DC
US Department of State DC
Kranzberg Foundation Missouri
University of Southern Indiana
Gervanne and Mathias Lerind Collection
Fondation Gandur