Modou Dieng
MODOU DIENG
b. 1970, Saint-Louis, Senegal
Lives and works in Chicago
BIOGRAPHY
Modou Dieng is a multidisciplinary artist and art curator. His work navigates pop culture's power by using various mediums such as painting, photography and mixed media collages. Dieng's work represents the archetypal cultural of imagery refined through a split identity between Blackness and African Philosophy.
His work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including A Postcolonial Landscape, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Oregon (2020); Dak’Art, Darkar Biennale, Darkar (2020); Saint-Louis to St. Louis: City on the River Meets River City, Barrett Barrera Projects, Missouri (2019); No Such Place, Edward Nahem Gallery, New York (2015); Portland Biennial, Disjecta, Oregon (2014); Emerging: Visual Arts in Post Hip Hop, Museum of African Diaspora Art, New York (2013); Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2010) and Here and There, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid (2006) among others.
Dieng is the Founder and Curator of Blackpuffin Curatorial in Illinois since 2017. He has also worked as a Curator of Worksound Gallery and Worksound International, Oregon (2007–2017); Associate Professor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Oregon (2014–2017) and Assistant Professor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Oregon (2008–2014).
In 1995 he graduated from Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Dakar with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 2006 he received his Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute in California. Born in 1970 in Saint-Louis, Senegal, he currently lives and works in Chicago.
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ARTWORKS
An Afternoon in Casablanca, 2021
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Volery Gallery presents Domesticity group exhibition, curated by Sasha Bogojev Curator and Contributing Editor at Juxtapoz Magazine. The inaugural exhibition presents a selection of all-new, previously unseen, original works by 17 international artists. The presentation revolves around the exploration of interior spaces as the fated environment for mankind and will feature works by Ojo Ayotunde; Ana Barriga; Pablo Benzo; Matt Bollinger; Deborah Brown; Mathieu Cherkit; Modou Dieng; Daniel Heidkamp; Yuichi Hirako; Jordy Kerwick; Sally Kindberg; Andrés Lozano; Alexis Ralaivao; Andy Rementer; Fabian Treiber; Ivana De Vivanco and Guy Yanai.