Ibrahim Meïté Sikely

works

 


Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
Overthinkingman, 2023
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
61 x 45 cm


Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
If only I could forget what these suckers told my friends and me, 2022
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
110 x 110 cm

 

 


Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
Tête d’étoile, 2021
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
150 x 70 cm


Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
Shine and Struggle in Shinigami Realm, 2021
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
60 x 40 cm


Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
Get ready for the next battle, 2021
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
50 x 65 cm


Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
The Five Marvelous Neighbors from the 5th Floor, 2023
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
162 x 114 cm

 

biography

Born in 1996, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely lives and works in Champigny-sur-Marne and Paris.
He received a Master of Fine Arts from the Villa Arson in Nice in 2022 and will receive another Master of Fine Arts from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2025. In 2024, he did an exchange program at k-arts in Seoul, South Korea and completed a residency at Pivô, in São Paulo, Brasil.
He has taken part in several exhibitions at CAC Brétigny, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FRAC Pays- de-Loire, Nantes, Villa Arson, Nice, La Villette (100% L’EXPO), Paris, as well as at the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Cajarc, Les Tanneries, Amilly and Passerelle, Brest. He took part to “Après l’éclipse” an exhibition at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin, as well as to the Salon de Montrouge in 2023. In 2024, Mohamed Bourouissa presented one of his painting in his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. The same year Ibrahim Meïté Sikely exhibited both at Nir Altman, Munich and at Project Native Informant gallery in London. His works are currently included in French institutional exhibitions at the Palais de la Porte Dorée and the FRAC île de France. galerie anne barrault will host his first solo show in September 2025.
Strongly influenced by his environment and history, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely’s practice fuses the visual languages of classic iconography from art history, comics, manga and video games. Using a colourful, shimmering style, scenes of tranquillity alternate with epic scenes whose fantastic, dreamlike universe recalls both the works of Goya and their trenchant social criticism, and the poetry of the tales of marginal communities described by Martin Wong. Through portraiture and allegory, his paintings refer to issues of struggle and justice, trauma and healing.

Solo exhibitions

2024

  • Ibrahim Meïté Sikely & Josefa Ntjam | Nir Altman, Munich, Germany

  • Group exhibitions

    2025

  • Art Basel Paris | Grand Palais, Paris
  • Banlieues Chéries | Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris | Curated by: Susana Gállego Cuesta Aleteïa, aka Émilie Garnaud, Horya Makhlouf
  • Berserk & Pyrrhia | Le Plateau-FRAC île de france, Paris | Curated by: Céline Poulin
  • 2024

  • Vieilles coques et jeunes récifs | FRAC île de france, les réserves Romainville | Curated by: Céline Poulin & Alicia Reymond
  • Signal, Mohamed Bourouissa | invited artists : Christelle Oyiri, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Abdelmajid Mehdi, Collectif Hawaf, LILA | Palais de Tokyo, Paris | Curated by: Hugo Vitrani
  • Condo London | hosting Gianni Manhattan Vienna & P21 Seoul | Project Native Informant, London
  • 2023

  • Paris+ by ArtBasel | Neïla Czermak Ichti - Rayane Mcirdi - Ibrahim Meïté Sikely | Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris
  • le salon de Montrouge | Curated by: Guillaume Désanges & Coline Davenne
  • Ce qui nous oblige | exposition des diplômés.e.s | Villa Arson, NIce | Curated by: Sophie Lapalu
  • Vous n’avez pas besoin d’y croire pour que ça existe | FRAC Pays-de-Loire, Nantes | Curated by: Théo Casciani
  • Après l'éclipse | Les Magasins Généraux, Pantin | Curated by: Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni
  • Césure fait sa nuit blanche | Césure, Paris | Curated by: Horya Makhlouf
  • 100% L'EXPO | La Villette, Paris | Curated by: Inès Geoffroy
  • ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ mimicry | Sissi Club, Marseille
  • to The Fire Next Time | centre d'art de la Villa Arson, Nice | Curated by: Mawena Yehouessi & Rosanna Puyol
  • 2022

  • les amis durent | Neïla Czermak Ichti, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Luna Petit, Lassana Sarre, Flo*Souad Benaddi | Galerie anne barrault – Paris
  • 2021

  • à plusieurs | FRAC Lorraine, Metz
  • Collections

    FRAC Île de France

    FRAC Pays de Loire

    Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections

    exhibitions


    Current exhibitions

    • Banlieues Chéries
      Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris
      Curated by: Susana Gállego Cuesta Aleteïa, aka Émilie Garnaud, Horya Makhlouf
      9 April - 17 August 2025

    Upcoming exhibitions

    • Art Basel Paris
      Grand Palais, Paris
      24 - 26 October 2025
    • Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
      Galerie anne barrault – Paris
      6 September - 31 October 2025

    Gallery exhibitions