Kiné Aw

Kiné Aw was born in 1977 and describes her childhood in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, as the catalyst for her passion for art. Since graduating from the National School of Arts in Dakar in 2006, Kiné Aw has been working in one of the fifty workshops in the Village des Arts, in what she calls her “laboratory”. There she has developed a body of work that tends towards surrealism and cubism, as well as numerous works inspired by women and their struggles. It is this attraction to the representation of the female form that led the art critic Babacar Mbaye Diop to call her work “curvature”. She exhibits regularly in Senegal, the United States and Europe.