Ibrahim Meïté Sikely

Born in 1996, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely lives and works in Champigny-sur-Marne and Paris.
He received his DNSEP from the Villa Arson in Nice in 2022 and will be a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2025. He is currently in exchange at k-arts, South Korea.

He has recently taken part in several exhibitions at CAC Brétigny, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FRAC Pays-de-Loire, Nantes, Villa Arson, Nice, 100% L’EXPO at La Villette, Paris, as well as at the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Cajarc and Les Tanneries, Amilly. He took part to the “Après l’éclipse” exhibition at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin, as well as to the Salon de Montrouge in 2023. His work is currently on view at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in the frame of Mohamed Bourouissa’s exhibition. His first solo show will be at the galerie anne barrault in 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.