Ibrahim Meïté Sikely

Born in 1996, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely lives and works in Champigny-sur-Marne and Paris. He obtained his DNSEP from the Villa Arson in Nice in 2022 and is currently a student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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 is currently taking part in the “Après l’éclipse” exhibition at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin and will be exhibiting at the Salon de Montrouge this year. He will present his first solo show at galerie anne barrault in 2024.

Strongly influenced by his environment and history, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely’s practice fuses the visual languages of classic art-historical iconography, comics, manga and video games. Using colorful, shimmering brushwork, tranquil scenes alternate with epic ones, whose fantastic, dreamlike universe recalls the works of Goya and their trenchant social critique, as well as the poetry of Martin Wong’s tales of marginal communities. Through portraiture and allegory, his paintings refer to issues of struggle and justice, trauma and healing.