Sanou Oumar
Sanou Oumar was born in Burkina Faso, West Africa in 1986; he lives in the Bronx and works in Harlem, New York. He graduated from the University of Ouagadougou in 2007 with a major in English literature. In 2015, Oumar moved to the United States to seek asylum. He is represented by Gordon Robichaux in New York where he had his first two-person exhibition (with Matt Paweski) in 2018 and Herald St in London where he presented his first solo exhibition in 2019.
His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions: a two-person exhibition (with Elisabeth Kley) at South Willard, Los Angeles, curated by Matt Connors; at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where his work is held in the permanent collection; Karma, New York; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, Herald St, London; Maroncelli 12, Milan, Italy, organized by Matt Paweski and Jacopo Mazzetti; Gordon Robichaux in A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I)—; at Mormor Studio, New York, in Art and Resistance, curated by the Center for Constitutional Rights; and at Joost van den Bergh, London, in A Concentration of Power. His art has been celebrated by The New Yorker on two occasions, and a book of Oumar’s drawings (published by Pre- Echo Press with an essay by Matt Paweski) was released in December 2018 at Karma Bookstore in New York.
