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Cheri Samba (born Kinto-Mvuila, 30 december 1956) is a painter living in the capital Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Paris, France. He is perhaps the most famous contemporary African painter alive. His works are included in the collections of the Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cheri Samba's paintings revolve around many themes, at the center of which is the self-portrait and the artist's relationship to his environment. His paintings almost always include text (in French), which involve poetic commentary on life in Africa or the modern world. His work is based on a fluid sense of the relationship between word and image, placing him squarely within the dialogue of postmodernism. A hybrid of advertising, pop art, comic book formulae, folk art style and high art motives; his work falls outside scripted boundaries of the naive, outsider art or the institutionalized notions of conceptual art or traditional painting.
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