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Saïdou Dicko:
Born in 1979, Burkina Faso
Education:
a self-taught visual artist
Solo exhibitions
2023 The shadowed people - Contour Gallery (forthcoming)
2022 UMRISSENE WELTEN by Saidou Dicko, ARTCO Gallery
The Prince of Shadows, Afikaris
2021 Shadowed People, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
2018 The Shadowed People , ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany
Photo Folies at the Menuiserie, Rodez, France
2016 Trans-Humance, Usanii space, Nevers, France
2014 Le Voleur d’ombres, French institute of Roma, Roma, Italy
2013 Art Brunch, Green Flowers Art Gallery, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
2012 Der Schattendieb, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
2009 French Alliance of Mbabane; Swaziland
Franco-Mozambicain cultural centre, Maputo, Mozambique
2008 Français Georges Méliès cultural centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Biennale OFF Dak’Art 08, French Institute, Dakar, Sénégal
Photographie, Peinture et Installation vidéo, Centre Culturel Français, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Photographie et peinture, Biennale OFF Dak’Art 08, Pôle linguistique de l’Institut Français, Dakar, Senegal
2007 Le Voleur d’Ombres, Flemish theatre KVS, Bruxelles, Belgium
Vues Suspendues Gallery, Pont en Royans, France
Photography, Galllery Vues, Suspendues de Pont, France
2006 Gallery Chab, Bamako, Mali
Quinzaine africaine, La Vénerie Espace Delvaux Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
Biennale OFF Dak’Art 06, French Institute, Dakar, Senegal
Group exhibitions
2023 Boundless Boundaries, Arushi Arts ( forthcoming)
2022 (IM)MATERIALITY, THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE
New Positions, Aachen
2021 THREADS, Zwartzusters Monastery, Belgium
FOUR by NINE , ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany
La Poésie du Lien, Afikaris gallery, Paris, France
Zone Franche, Institute of Islamic Cultures, Paris, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Afikaris Gallery, Paris, France
Paper Positions Berlin, ARTCO Gallery
2020 Aspiring , ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany
Your Shadows, Afikaris Gallery, Paris, France
Un été sans fin, Afikaris
2019 1-54 London Art Fair, Loft Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, Cape Town
2018 AKAA, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa
The Expanded Subject, Columbia Uni, Wallach
TARGETS - The unseen works of Paris, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2015 1-54 Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 One Game Everywhere, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany
Fine Art Selection ‘14, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany Kölner Liste, Cologne, Germany
2013 Contemporary Africa, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2012 Art Ulm, Ulm, Germany (ARTCO Gallery)
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Interpretations of Africa Football Art and Design, London, United Kingdom
Design Museum, London, United Kingdom
Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian de Lisbonne, Lisbon, Portugal
Exposition au Centro de Exposiciones Fernan Gomez, Madrid, Spain
Collection of Bamaka Biennale, Contemporary Art Centre, Luthuania
2010 Exposition au Centro Cultural Cajastur Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijon, Spain
Installation photo, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
l’Art Contemporain d’Afrique, Collegiale Saint André de Chartres, Chartres, France
Momo Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Bamako in Toronto, Exposition au Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Mosaïque de photos, Collegiale Saint André de Chartres, Chartres, France
Photographie de Bamako, Foto Museum d’Anvers, Antwerp, Belgium
2009. La porte étroite, Afrique Avenir in collaboration with Dak’Art, Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Exposition, IFA Stuttgart, Dak’Art 08, Ifa Gallery Stuttgart, Germany
Photographie, Galerie Le Manège, Dakar, Senegal
Photographie, Casa Africa de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
Photographie and paintings, Exposition à Gorée, Gorée, Senegal
Video, Exposition, 2nd Biennale Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (Momo Gallery)
Photographie, Dakar Women’s Group, Dakar, Senegal
Photographie, Centre de Culture Contemporaine de Barcelone , Barcelona, Spain
2008. Africa Now, Bank Mondiale, Washington D.C., USA
L’Homme est un Mystère 3, galerie du CDDP des Côtes d’Amor, Saint-Brieuc, France
Photographie, MC2A Migration culturelle Aquitaine Afriques, Bordeaux, France
IFA Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Photographie, Yokohama Museum of Arts, Yokohama, Japan
Regards sur cours 6e édition, Gorée, Senegal
Photographie, Galeries Plastiques Itinérantes, Galerie Atiss, Dakar, Senegal
Dak’Art 08, Galerie Nationale, Dakar, Senegal
2007. Photographie, 7es Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie de Bamako, Mali
Festival International des Arts Visuels d’Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Regards sur cours 5e édition, Gorée, Senegal
Galeries Plastiques Itinérantes, Niamey, Niger
ARTMADRID, Visibilité Noire, Madrid, Spain (Galerie Africaine)
2006. Fondation Jean-Paul Blachère, Apt, France
Peinture et photographie, Saint-Domingue
Encore un regard, Ggalerie Le Manège,Dak’Art06, Dakar, Senegal
2003 Paintings, Restaurant Baratapas, Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso
2005 Paintings, Galerie ESCALIEROUGE - Galerie Alternative, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Projects
2013 Curator (3rd International Biennial of Casablanca) and scenographer mostly in Morocco with Arkane Africa
2012 Co-founder of the collective “Rendez-Vous of Artists”
Awards
2021 Finalist, Grace Cossington Smith Art Award
2016 Winner of Wings of Africa from Royal Air Maroc. Design of a Boeing 737 in collaboration with Evans Mbugua
2014 International selection at the 3rd edition of the Addis Foto Fest 2014, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
International selection at the 6th edition of the ARTE video Night, Paris, France
International selection at the 2nd edition of the Cassablanca Biennale, Casablanca, Morocco
International selection at the Gwanza Month of photography, Moonwalking, Harare, Zimbabwe
2012 International festival of Film Black of Montréal, projection the 21th of september of the video Gariibu during the program l’Afrique en
mouvement, Montréal, Canada
1st edition of the Casablanca Biennale, exhibition at Arctua Art Space Regards Africains Croisés, Casablanca, Morocco
2009 Finalist, Phoenix Art Prize
International selection at the 8th African Biennale of Photography, les Rencontres de Bamako 9, Bamako, Mali
Photographie, Alliance Française, Mbabane; Swaziland
Photographie, Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain, Maputo, Mozambique
2008 CAPO Emerging Artist Award
Award of the public, European Union, 8th Dakar Biennale, National Gallery, Dakar, Senegal
Laureat of the Thamgidi Foundation, 8th Dakar Biennale of Dakar, National Gallery, Senegal
International selection at the 8th edition of the Dakar Biennale, Dak’Art 08. award of the Thamgidi foundation for a video installation made
with the artist Piniang
The Off prize of European Union
2007 Award of the Francophonie : Best Francophone photographer, Bamako meetings
2006 Award of the Blachère Foundation, 7th Dakar Biennale
Fair booths
2023 Contour Gallery at Art Rotterdam ( solo booth)
Afikaris - Art Brussel ( group)
2022 Jackson Fine Art at Art Miami
ARTCO Gallery at AKAA Paris
Afikaris at Bordeaux + Art + Design
ARTCO Gallery at Photo Basel
Afikaris at Photo London
2021 Afikaris at Art Paris
Arushi Arts at LA Art Show
Afikaris at 1-54 New York
2019 Loft Art Gallery at 1-54 London
ARTCO Gallery at Investec Cape Town Art Fair
ARTCO Gallery at London Art Fair
2018 ARTCO Gallery at FNB JoburgArtFair 2018