Ibrahim Meïté Sikely

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

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

Group exhibitions

Collections

FRAC Île de France

FRAC Pays de Loire

Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections