Malick Sidibé

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Malick Sidibé (born 1936) is photographer from Mali and famous especially for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. He completed his studies in design and jewelry in the Sudanese School of Artisans (which became the National Institute of Arts) in Bamako. In 1955, he entered the studio "Photo Service" of Gérard Guillat-Guignard, with whom he studied photography.

In 1962, he opened his own studio in Bamako and specialized in documentary photography, especially of the parties of young people in the Malian capital. In the 1970s, he turned towards the making of studio portraits.

Sidibé was able to increase his reputation through the first meetings on African photography in Mali in 1994. His work is now exhibited in Europe (for example, the Fondation Cartier in Paris), the US and Japan.

In 2003, Malick Sidibé received the Hasselblad prize for photography.

[edit] Major Shows

• Museum of Contemporary Art (solo), Chicago, USA , 1996
• Centre d’Art Contemporain (solo), Geneva, Switzerland (solo), 2000
• Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (solo), Rome, Italy (solo), 2001
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo), 2001
• You look beautiful like that : The Portrait of Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA; UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL, USA; National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, MA, USA, (2001-2003)
• Musée Pincé, Angers (solo), France, 2003
• Hasselblad Center (solo), Göteborg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2003-2004
• CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre (solo), Coimbra, Portugal. 2004
• Museet for Fotokunst. Brandts Klaedefabrik (solo), Odense, Denmark, 2004