Hyacinthe Ouattara is a self-taught artist. After several workshop experiences and training in life drawing, Ouattara first imagined the human body in a dreamlike, ghostly, and childish way before moving onto what lies beneath and concentrating his work on the anatomy of cellular tissues through “human cartographies”. 

Material, texture and colours are very important in his pictorial work, at times creating grand patchworks. His drawings, for their part, are spontaneous, gestural and question the human. His installations often play with suspensions, questioning balance and imbalance. They are both a reflection on memory and, with the use of  textiles, on the organic. The versatility of textiles allows him to question the ambivalence between appearance and disappearance, representation and intimacy and identity in the broad sense. Likewise, these twisted and knotted sculptures take up this obsession with the organic and question the notion of links.

Ouattara has participated in exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Ouagadougou, Accra, Luxembourg,  including the Cairo Biennale. His works are notably in two large  private collections in New York.