Born 1945 in Bignona (SE)
Lives and works in Bignona (SE)

Solo & duo exhibitions

2024

• Shaping Spirits, Baronian, Brussels (BE)
• Sculpting Earth, Painting Sensations, Seyni Awa Camara & John McAllister, Almine Rech, Paris (FR)

2023

• Seyni Awa Camara 1990 – 2022, Nino Mier Gallery, New York (US)

2022

• Amongst the Living, Seyni Awa Camara & Michael Armitage, White Cube Bermondsey, London (UK)
• Les restes du bruit, Seyni Awa Camara & Estevão Mucavele, MAGNIN-A, Paris (FR)
• Solo show Art Brussels with Baronian, Brussels (BE)

2021

• Seyni Awa Camara & Olaf Holzapfel, Baronian Xippas, Knokke (BE)

2020

• Maternités, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)

2011

• Seyni Awa Camara entre les éléments, Galeria Kalao, Bilbao (ES)

2010

• El Vientre de la Tierra, Galeria Kalao, Bilbao (ES)

2009

• Seni Camara & Ndoye Douts, Galerie Nathalie Fiks, Paris (FR)

2008

• Seyni Awa Camara- Terracotas, Galeria Kalao, Bilbao (ES)

2007

• Seyni Camara, Galerie Nathalie Fiks, Paris (FR)

2004

• Séni Camara, De Crescenzo & Viesti, Rome (IT)

1990

• Seni Awa Camara, Gallery 39, Dakar (SE)

Group exhibitions

2024

• In Schitterend Licht, Wereldmuseum, Leiden (NL)
• Seyni Awa Camara – John McAllister, Sculpting Earth, Painting Sensations, Almine Rech, Paris (FR)
• LES AMI·ES DE MES AMI·ES, Art et Marges Museum, Brussels (BE)

2023

• Sub Terra, Maison des Arts, Brussels (BE)
• Keramik, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (DE)
• Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations, The National Museum, Oslo (NO)
• Summer in Knokke, Baronian, Knokke (BE) 
• Rien n’est permanent, Parliament Galerie, Paris (FR)

2022 

• Vessels, David Zwirner, London (UK)
• Anozero–Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art (PT) 
• Tot hier en verder, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)

2021

• Ex Africa, Musée du Quai Branly- Jacques Chirac, Paris (FR) 
• Radically Naïve / Naively Radical, ExtraCity, Antwerp (BE)

2020

• Alpha Crucis, curated by André Magnin, Musée Astrup Fearnley, Oslo (NO)

2017

• Art/Afrique : le nouvel atelier _ Les Initiés : sélection d’oeuvres (1989- 2009) de la collection d’art contemporain africain Pigozzi, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR)
• Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)

2016

• Galeristes, Carreau du temple, Paris (FR)

2012

• Figure Libre, Galerie Nathalie Fiks, Paris (FR)

2011

• Chic Art Fair, Galerie Nathalie Fiks, Paris (FR)

2010

• Africa? Una nuova storia, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome (IT)

2008

• Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin (IT)

2007

• 100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (ES)

2005

• Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (FR)
• African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Art Houston (US)

2001

• Rocca di Umbertide, Contemporary Art Center (IT)
• Biennale de Venise, 49th edition, Venice (IT)

2000

• Il Ritorno Dei Maghi, Orvieto (IT)

1992

• Africa Hoy, Contemporary Art Cultural Center (MX)
• Groninger Museum (NL)
• The Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canary (ES)

1991

• Senegal, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Landesmuseum, Oldenburger Kunstverein (DE)

1989

• Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (FR)

2022

•  Seyni Awa Camara, Galerie Baronian, publication on the occasion of Art Brussels

2021

• Philippe Dagen, Ex Africa, exh. cat., Paris, Gallimard 
• Louise Bourgeois, “I respect, like, and enjoy Camara”, Woman Paper, limited edition, Something We Africans Got & Fiac, Paris

2011

• Seyni Awa Camara entre les éléments, Book + DVD – Galeria Kalao (ES)

2007

• Why Africa? Exhibition catalogue. Published by Electa & Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli.

2006

• 100% Africa. Exhibition catalogue. Published by TF Editores & FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.

2005

• Arts of Africa: The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi
• Exhibition catalogue. Published by Skira Edition & Grimaldi Forum Monaco.
• African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection Exhibition catalogue. Published by Merrell.

2001

• Tribal Soul, Metropolitan Body. Contemporary African Art Edited by : L’Artière. Bilingual text Italian and English p.66-69. _ Regine of Africa. Seni Camara by Enrico Mascelloni E Sarenco. Exhibition catalogue. Bilingual text Italian English. P.31-58.

1996

• Contemporary Art of Africa. Seni Awa Camara p.54-57, text in English by Louise Bourgeois. Edited by Andre Magnin & Jacques Soulillou. Publisher Harry N. Abraams, New-York.

1994

• Solitude d’Argile. Légende autour d’une vie. Seni-Awa Camara’s sculptures. Book, texts in French by Michèle Odeye-Finzi, 60 pages. Edition : L’Harmattan.

1991

• Africa Hoy. Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno. Exhibition catalogue, bilingual text Spanish & English. Seni-Awa Camara, p.67 -71. Las palmas, Gran Canaria.

1989

• Magiciens de la Terre. Exhibition catalogue, text in French. Georges Pompidou Center, Grande Halle de la Villette. Paris, France.