Delphine Diallo is a Brooklyn-based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer.
She graduated from the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Art in Paris in 1999 before working in the music industry for seven years as a special effects motion artist, video editor and graphic designer. In 2008, she moved to New York to explore her own practice after giving up a cooperate Art Director role in Paris. Diallo was mentored by acclaimed photographer and artist Peter Beard at a similar time she decided to return to her father’s home city of Saint-Louis in Senegal to create her own style. Seeking to challenge the norms of our society, Diallo immerses herself in the realm of anthropology, mythology, religion, science and martial arts to inspire herself creatively. Diallo’s work has been exhibited globally in London, New York, Miami, Addis Ababa, Berlin, Dakar and Rome, amongst many other cities.