Omar Ba
Born 1977 in Serer, Senegal
Lives and works in Dakar, Senegal
Lives and works in Dakar, Senegal
Born in 1977 in Senegal, Omar Ba lives and works in Dakar. 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. On November 20, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has opened "Political Animals", the first U.S. museum exhibition of works by this acclaimed Senegalese contemporary artist.
Omar Ba, Parlez-nous des états unis d’Afrique (Tell Us About the United States of Africa) #3, 2022, Acrylic, pencil, oil, indian ink and bic pen on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. Courtesy of Templon, Paris–Brussels–New York.
