AWARDS, EDUCATION & PATRONAGE
Ambassador of the Parisian gallery space of the Fondation H – dedicated to the African continent’s culture, 2020.
Jury member, Terra Foundation for American Art, Summer Residency in Giverny, France, 2019.
Senior Artist Advisor, Terra Foundation Summer Residency in Giverny, France, 2018.
BodyCake Research & Production residency, Kalmar Konstmuseum / Designarkivet / The Glass Factory, Sweden, 2018.
Patron of the Prix Célimène – Creativity Award for Women, Reunion Island, 2018.
Jury member of democraSEE 2, Award for Contemporary Southern African Photography, South Africa, 2018.
Jury member of the Francophonie Award for Photography, Ivory Coast, 2017.
Artist mobility grant, IFAS, 2014.
Artist residency, Institut Français / National Art Council of South Africa, 2012.
Mobility grant, Culturesfrance / Institut Français of Tel-Aviv, 2007.
Nominated for the KLM Paul Huf Award, 2007.
Prize winner of the HSBC Foundation for Photography, 2004.
Grant for installation from the DRAC IDF, 2004.
Architect DPLG, Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, 1996.
EXHIBITIONS, FAIRS & FESTIVALS
2023
Photography: Real and Imagined, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV, Melbourne, Australia – Cur. Susan van Wyk
Figures: From Dawn to Dusk, Carte blanche at CDMH, Dudelange, Luxembourg – Patron. Marcel Lorenzini, Cur. Yves Chatap
Humain Autonome : Fossiles Mécaniques, Triennale Art et Industrie, La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France – Cur. Marianne Derrien, Salim Santa Lucia, Sarah Ihler-Meyer
In and Out of Time, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana – Cur. Ekow Eshun
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK – Cur. Osei Bonsu
Antson’ny tontolo miaina, Mad Art Advisory, Zital Akorondrano, Antananarivo, Madagascar – Cur. Ihoby Rabarijohn & Cécile Bourne-Farrell
Mers, Terres & Corps traversés, La Traverse, Marseille, France – Cur. Cécile Bourne-Farrell
Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau & SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany – Cur. N. Ginwala & B. Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Une œuvre pour tous, CHU Agnodice, Paris, France – Cur. Julie Lamier / Fonds d’Art Contemporain – Paris Collection
Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah Biennial 15, UAE – Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
Points de vue sur l’architecture, IUT Grand Ouest Normandie, Cherbourg, France – Cur. Double Sens & Frac Normandie Caen
2022
A Field Guide to Photography and Media, Art Institute of Chicago, USA – Cur. Elizabeth Siegel
De l’Air !, System D, Malakoff, France – Cur. Seamus Farrell
EUROPA Oxalá, Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium – Cur. Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kaméli, Aimé Mpane Enkobo
A Place With No Name: Works from the Sina Tina Collection, Christie’s, London, UK – Collec. Robert Devereux
Malala Andrialavidrazana, Carte blanche at LCL Bank’s headquarters, 19LCL – Hôtel des Italiens, Paris, France
Grand Format, Dilecta, Paris, France – Cur. Elsa Paradol
A Private Choice, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
Œuvres Phares de la Saison, Christie's, Paris, France – Cur. Isabel Millar
Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa – Cur. Natasha Ginwala, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
ENTRELACS / INTERLACED, Cité des arts, Paris, France – Cur. Lisa Brittan, Gary Van Wyk
Prophecy, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK – Cur. Thomas Ellmer, Sarah Shalgosky, Laura Nyahuye
Les territoires et la carte, Espace culturel d’Anglemont, Les Lilas, France – Cur. Luca Avanzini & Anna Milone
EUROPA Oxalá, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal – Cur. Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kaméli, Aimé Mpane Enkobo
2021
L’appareil à exposition – Opus 1 : Ailleurs, École élémentaire Les Mains Vertes, Chandai, France
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Éphémère / Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
EUROPA Oxalá, SNCF Gares & Connexions, Marseille Saint-Charles, France
EUROPA Oxalá, MUCEM, Marseille, France
FIAC, Grand Palais Éphémère / Dilecta, Paris, France
We are History, Somerset, London, UK
Redefining the trend – Histories in the making, Christie’s, London, UK
1-54, London / Galerie Dominique Fiat, UK
L’Afrique vue par ses photographes, Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
Ny Fitiavanay, Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
EUROPA Oxalá, MUCEM, Marseille, France
G21: What the F%$K is Prosperity?, City of Venice, Italy
Un.e Air.e de Famille, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Saint Denis, France
Promenades dans la clairière d’Eza Boto, Chapitre III, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
Rhizomes, Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, France
Past, Present & Future: An Exhibition of Contemporary African Art, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA.
Zone Franche, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France
2020
disCONNECTED, Motorenhalle / riesa efau. Lultur Forum, Dresden, Germany
A Beast, A God and A Line, MAIIAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collections d’automne, un été indien, FRAC Normandie Caen, Caen, France
Figures, Forum Arte Braga / 30°s. Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
Collector #4 : Dix artistes femmes, Dilecta, Paris, France
Les Echos du Monde, Fondation H in partnership with Cité des Arts, Paris, France
Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
A Beast, a God, and a Line, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mappa Mundi – Contemporary cartographies, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Lumières d’Afriques, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mitady ny tsy hita, ADMC-CRAAM in partnership with Paris La Sorbonne University, Antananarivo, Madagascar
En Couleurs – Collection FRAC Normandie Caen, Centre Culturel des Fosses d’Enfer, Saint-Rémy-sur-Orne ; Médiathèque André Malraux, Lisieux, France
2019
A la croisée des chemins, parfois les rêves s’envolent, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France
A Beast, A God and A Line, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
HERstory, Maison Bédier, FRAC Réunion, Reunion Island
Carte blanche à Malala Andrialavidrazana à la Cité de l’économie, Citéco, Paris, France
Solo show, Caroline Smulders at Paris Photo, Grand Palais, France
Group show – artists of the gallery, Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano, Italy
Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Liberté, Egalité, Diversité, Abbaye de Daoulas, France
Aperture, Photo London, Sommerset House, London, UK
Aperture Pop Up at 1-54, Industria, New York, US
Lumières d’Afriques, Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
A Gaze at Women Artists in France, Caroline Smulders at ArtParis, Grand Palais, France
L’Espoir, Musée Urbain Cabrol, Villefranche de Rouergue, France
Ex Africa, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
La part de l’autre, Institut Français de Maurice, Mauritius
Togeth’ Her - Artistes à la UNE, La Monnaie de Paris, France
Aperture Photographs, Aperture Foundation, New York, US
Décoloniser les corps #2, Eternal Network, Tours, France
2018
50 Golborne at Untitled, Miami Beach, US
C-Gallery at AKAA Art Fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
50 Golborne at Artissima, Torino, Italy
Time has gone, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
Un air de famille - parce que les fantômes disparaissent au lever du jour, H2M, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
C-Gallery at ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
50 Golborne at 1:54 Art Fair, Sommerset House, London, UK
La part de l'autre, Cité des arts, Saint Denis, La Réunion
Total Anastrophes, Volcano Extravaganza / Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Italy
Collector #2 : Photographies ?, Dilecta, Paris, France
Sommarutställningen / Pukeberg Summer Exhibition, Designarkivet, Nybro, Sweden
Solo show, Alessandro Casciaro Gallery at VOLTA 14, Basel, Switzerland
Africanism beyond stereotypes, Galleria Civica, Bolzano, Italy
50 Golborne at 1:54 Art Fair, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, US
38th EVA International - Ireland's Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
Figures, Alessandro Casciaro Gallery, Bolzano, Italy
A Beast, A God and A Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Touring at Para-Site, Hong Kong; TS1, Yangon, Myanmar; MoMA, Warsaw, PolandAfriques, Artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Fondation Clément (in partnership with Fondation Dapper), Martinique
Lumières d'Afriques, Touring exhibition at African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Eumetsat, Darmstadt, Germany
Ailleurs est ce rêve proche, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2017
Aperture Foundation at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, US
Decolonize This, First Karachi Biennale: KB17' Witness, Karachi, Pakistan
Aperture Foundation at Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
50 Golborne at AKAA Art Fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
Echoes and Figures, 50 Golborne, London, UK
50 Golborne at 1:54 Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
Afronova at 1:54 Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
Figures, C-Gallery, Milano, Italy
Histoires brodées, Focus of the 14th Biennale de Lyon, Musée Africain, Lyon, France
Aperture Foundation, Special exhibitions, Expo Chicago, US
Africana, Kehrer Pop Up in Arles, Arles, France
Africa, Raccontare un mondo, PAC, Milano, Italy
Echoes–Fragments, Cape and Cape House, Paris, France
Making Douala, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
Rip it up, Changjiang Biennale of Photography & Video art, Chongqing, China
Aperture Pop Up, 1:54, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, US
Deep Memory (Djupt Minne), Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Figures, Collectionair, Online exhibition, Worldwide
Collectionair at Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Figures, WeTransfer curated wallpapers, Online random exhibition, Worldwide
HERstory – des archives à l’heure du postféminisme, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
Lumières d’Afriques, Musée Théodore-Monod / IFAN, Dakar, Senegal; Palais des Nations / UNOG, Geneva, Switzerland
Sommet de Bamako pour le Partenariat, la Paix et l’Emergence, Bamako, Mali
2016
Echoes (from Indian Ocean), Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Studio Bamako, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
L'Autre Continent, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
Origins and trajectories: Contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora, Piasa, Paris, France
Lumières d'Afriques, Fondation Donwahi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Doual'art, Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa
That Art Fair's Featured Artists, Palms Decor, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Lumières d'Afriques, Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances, Paris, France
Où poser la tête ?, Collection du FRAC Réunion, Villa de la Région, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island
Lumières d’Afriques, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, France
Telling times, 10th Bamako Encounters, National Museum, Bamako, Mali
Memento – Petits arrangements, Mois de l’Art Contemporain, Cité du Volcan, Reunion Island
2014
No fixed abode, The New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Le mur / La Collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Kehrer Verlag, Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, USA
Echoes–Fragments, Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Porte 44/MC2A, Bordeaux, France
2014 Frames, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
2013
Kehrer Verlag, Paris Photo, Paris, France
By Night, Nuit des Arts Visuels / Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island
Present Tense, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
baudoin lebon gallery, Art Paris, Paris, France
The City, Focus Mumbai Festival, Mumbai, India
From Birth to I-dentity, Afrikadaa, Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Paris, France
Video Lounge, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
baudoin lebon gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2012
Inventing the world: The Artist as Citizen, Biennale Bénin, Centre Kora, Cotonou, Benin
Ceremony, 30 et Presque Songes, Doual'art, Douala, Cameroon
Carte blanche à baudoin lebon, Photo Off, Paris, France
baudoin lebon gallery, Paris Photo, Paris, France
baudoin lebon gallery, JoburgArtFair, Johannesburg, South Africa
baudoin lebon gallery, MadridFoto, Madrid, Spain
Never Before, ESA / FRAC Réunion, Le Port, Reunion Island
baudoin lebon gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
2011
L’Afrique à l’Honneur, baudoin lebon gallery, Paris Photo, Paris, France
On the Roof, Rencontres Off de Bamako, Bla-Bla, Bamako, Mali
Synchronicity I, Photoquai, On the roof / baudoin lebon gallery, Paris, France
Life is elsewhere, 3rd Dali International Photography Exhibition, Dali, China
Intimités, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
Ceremony, 30 et Presque Songes, Chambre du Commerce et de l’Industrie, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Ceremony, 30 et Presque Songes, La Maison Revue Noire, Paris, France
Ceremony, 30 et Presque Songes, Teat du Champ Fleuri, Saint Denis, Reunion Island
Photos Vanitas, baudoin lebon gallery, Salon de la Mort, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
baudoin lebon gallery, India Art Summit, New Delhi, India
2010
Collection hiémale, baudoin lebon gallery, Paris, France
On the Roof, Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
A Journey in Warsaw, Photographies Polonaises, baudoin lebon gallery, Paris, France
Tracés de voyage, Imane Farès gallery, Paris, France
On the Roof, Arena Corner & Guests, Arles, France
Slideluck Potshow, Comptoir Général, Paris, France
Insomnia, baudoin lebon gallery, Paris, France
2009
Africaines (African Women), 2nd Pan African Cultural festival, Algiers, Algeria
2008
Africa: Personal Poetics, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial Beijing Station, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Food for your eyes, Parcours Photographique Parisien, Paris, France
Ethologie, Galerie A Part, Bagnolet, France
As You Like It, JoburgArtFair Curated Show, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ancestors’Land, Mycroft gallery, Paris, France
2007
Photographies contemporaines, RIP, Eglise des Trinitaires, Arles, France
Rites and Rituals, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
XIIth International Fair for Photography, French Institute, Fès, Maroc
Ancestors' Land, Photoana, Biennale of photography of the Indian Ocean, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Saint-Denis Expos Photos (Photo Exhibition), Espace Jeumon, Saint Denis, Reunion Island
Another World, La Centrale Electrique, CEAC, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Visions d’Afrique, Voies Off, Arles, France
Un été à Bamako, Festival 10 Vagues, Maison Folie Moulins, Lille, France
Un nous : Donnant - Donnant, La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Personae & Scenarios - The New African Photography, BrancoliniGrimaldi, Rome, Italy
2005
Another world, 6th African Encounters of Photography, National Museum, Bamako, Mali
Identité/Mémoire, Like76, Paris, France
d’Outre-Monde, Arrêt sur l’Image Galerie, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
d’Outre-Monde, Le Garage, Toulouse, France
d’Outre-Monde, Atelier Soardi, Nice, France
2004
d’Outre-Monde, baudoin lebon gallery, Paris, France
Crossing over, in «+/- L’épicerie», Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, France
PUBLIC TALKS & CONFERENCES
2023
'A Map is not a Territory', Artist presentation at Scholarly conference ‘Legacies of Race and Slavery in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans’, organized by the Africa Institute with the support of Sharjah Art Foundation, Zanzibar, June 2023.
2022
Visite carte blanche in resonance with ‘Monnaies et Merveilles’ exhibition, Conversation program curated by Stéphanie Molinard, Monnaie de Paris Museum, France, July 2022.
‘S’intégrer en Europe : Oxalá, Hopelijk, avec un peu de chance… | Regards croisés du Portugal, de France et de Belgique’, Symposium co-organized by the Jacques Delors Institute, Gulbenkian Foundation and Mucem, Marseille, France, January 2022.
2021
‘La Ronde 2021’, Public talk part of the 17th European Night of Museums, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France, July 2022
‘Ma vie d’artiste’, Discussion part of WeFRAC #5, with Anne Cartel, Zoé de Soumagnat, Stéphane Vigny, moderated by Frédéric Suard, FRAC Normandie Caen, France, April 2021.
2020
‘Identités archipéliques : arts insulaires entre mythe et matérialité’, Roundtable with Didier Montagné, Hobisoa Raininoro, Rijasolo, Moderated by Miarifidy Rafolomahefarivony & Miangaly Randriamanantena, Institut Français de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, February 2020.
‘Une œuvre à l’école’, City of Paris encounters programme with primary pupils and teachers, Ecole élémentaire Saint Lambert, Paris, France, January 2020.
2019
‘Malagasy’, Roundtable with Bénédicte Alliot, Henri-François Debailleux, Eric Dereumaux, Rijasolo, Christian Sanna, in partnership with PARITANA, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, December 2019.
‘Une mosaïque identitaire’, Roundtable with Hervé Le Bras, Julien Le Bot, moderated by Marie-Hélène Fraïssé, Abbaye de Daoulas, France, Sept. 2019.
‘Artiste, Collectionneur, Un duo essentiel du marché de l’art’, Roundtable with Cathia Lawson-Hall, Arthur Kibbelaar, Eve de Medeiros, Olivier Berman, moderated by Nadine Hounkpatin, Ministère de la Culture / Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris, France, May 2019.
‘Politics of spaces: Resistance & Art’, Talks curated by Rikke Jørgensen / Arts & Globalization, Giudecca Art District, Venice, Italy, May 2019.
2018
‘Subverting clichés to reframe History’, Seminar reading conducted by Veerle Thielemans, Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, France, June 2018.
‘L’œuvre d’art, archive de la mémoire’, roundtable moderated by Françoise Monnin, Fondation Clément, Martinique, February 2018.
2017
In Conversation with Dominique Malaquais, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair / 50 Golborne, London, UK, October 2017.
‘Aperture Live: Platform Africa’, with Zineb Sedira and Zoe Whitley, in discussion with Brendan Wattenberg, Autograph ABP, London, UK, July 2017.
‘Coup de fil – Lia Akata’, roundtable with Temandrota, Pauline Monginot, Christine Coste, Moderated by Eric Dereumaux, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, June 2017.
Introduction to the Figures series coinciding with the launch of the summer 2017 of Aperture Magazine, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, USA, May 2017.
‘Afrique-Asie. Arts, espaces, pratiques’, Round table with Nicole Khouri, Dominique Malaquais, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Sammy Baloji, Fiona Siegenthaler, Marian Nur Goni and Jean-Paul Colleyn, in reference both to the collective publication 'Afrique-Asie' and 'L'Afrique des routes' exhibition, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France, 16 March 2017.
‘HERstory – des archives à l’heure du postféminisme’, public conversation curated by Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France, 28 January 2017.
2015
‘Tribute to Thabiso Sekgala’, with Lebohang Kganye, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Moderated by John Fleetwood, National Museum, Bamako, Mali, November 2015.
2014
‘On the Road: Travel, knowledge transfer and crossing boundaries in Contemporary Art’, with Candice Allison, Stacy Hardy, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, James Webb, Moderated by Kirsty Cockerill, The New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014.
Lunchtime Lecture, Introduction by Nomusa Makhubu, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014.
Public Discussion, Introduction by Maxine Thomik, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2014.
Lecture, Introduction by Rima Geffen, City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014.
Artist Talk, Alliance Française, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014.
Artist Talk, 2014Frames Official Opening, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK, April 2014.
2013
‘Be National - Afrikadaa’, with Olivia Anani, Katja Gentric, Alexandre Gouzou, Stacy Hardy, Sean Hart, Camille Moulonguet,
Moderated by Louisa Barbari, La Gaîté Lyrique, Plateau Média, Paris, France, December 2013.
2012
Public Discussion, Introduction by John Fleetwood, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2012.
Conversational roundtable, Introduction by Peter McKenzie, Moderated by Ben Brophy, Kwa Zulu Natal Society of Arts, Durban, South Africa, August 2012.
Artist Talk, Introduction by Liza du Plessis and Peter McKenzie, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, August 2012.
Artist Talk, Introduction by Sarah Doignon, Alliance Française, Durban, South Africa, August 2012.
2011
24h.com / Dali International Photography Exhibition, Dali, China, September 2011.
2007
Public Discussion with Bruno Hadjih, Moderated by Sergio Edelsztein, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2007.