Né au Sénégal en 1977, Omar Ba a été formé aux Beaux-Arts de Dakar puis de Genève où il a longtemps travaillé. Un pied sur chaque continent, Omar Ba déploie une démarche «d’hybridation» permanente. Depuis 10 ans, Omar Ba a participé à de nombreuses expositions personnelles ou collectives, dont les plus récentes sont Omar Ba : Same Dream (Contemporary Calgary, Canada, 2020 et Power Plant Toronto, 2019), Global(e) Resistance (Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, 2020), Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier (Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2017), le festival Afropolitan (Bozar, Bruxelles, 2017), Afrique-Raconter le Monde (Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2017), Le Havre – Dakar, Partager la mémoire (Muséum d’histoire naturelle du Havre, 2017), la Summer Exhibition à la Royal Academy of Arts (Londres) et la Biennale de Dakar en 2014.
Born in 1977 in Senegal, Omar Ba lives and works in Dakar and New York. His paintings, produced using a variety of techniques and materials, represent political and social motifs open to multiple interpretations. His artistic vocabulary raises historical and timeless questions while formulating a wholly contemporary artistic message. Omar Ba’s iconography features personal metaphors, ancestral references and hybrid figures. This combination of heterogeneous elements illustrates his desire to abolish boundaries and categories. His work, with its enigmatic nature and poetic intensity, rejects all forms of didactic narrative, seeking instead to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of the real.