Iba N'Diaye

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Iba N'Diaye (b. 1928) is a Senegalese painter.

Born in Saint Louis, Senegal, N'Diaye painted posters for the town's two movie theaters as a teenager. He studied architecture in Senegal before traveling to France for study both at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. He returned home in 1959 at the request of President Léopold Senghor, and created the Department of Plastic Arts at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar. He returned to Paris for good in 1967.

N'Diaye frequent jazz clubs while in Paris in the 1940s, and his interest in the medium continues to show itself in his work. He was the subject of a retrospective at Munich's Museum für Völkerkunde in 1987, and has featured in exhibitions in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia.

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• Bio from the National Museum of African Art