Serigne Mbaye Camara

Born in Saint Louis of Senegal, Serigne Mbaye Camara lives and works in Dakar. Since 1996, he has combined his profession as a creator and teacher at the National School of the Arts in Dakar and in universities, notably that of Thiès, Ziguinchor, Saint-Louis.

He began his training at the National School of the Arts in Dakar, where he was then successively responsible for the plastic arts section, sewing and fashion cutting departments, then educational advisor before leaving for France were he was educated at the Cachan technical college.

Serigne Mbaye Camara received the medal of knight of the national order of merit and that of the national order of arts and letters. He has participated in several group exhibitions such as the great Contemporary Art of Senegal event presented in France, Belgium and Austria in the early 1990s, in Paris at the Dapper Museum His work has also been the subject of several personal exhibitions, including one , in 2002, at the Museum of Cultures (Kultuurien muséo) in Helsinki.

In 2002 he was appointed chairman of the exhibitions commission within the framework of the Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art).