Sammy Baloji

Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo). He lives and works between Lubumbashi and Brussels. He graduated in Information and Communication Sciences from the University of Lubumbashi and the Haute École des Arts du Rhin. Since September 2019, he has been conducting a PhD research in art at Sint Lucas Antwerpen entitled "Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics". He was a resident of the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici, in 2019-2020. Over the past ten years, numerous monographic exhibitions have been devoted to his work: Lund Konsthall and Aarhus Kunsthal (2020), Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg (2019), Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2018), Museumcultuur Strombeek (2018), The Power Plant, Toronto and WIELS, Brussels (2016-2017). He has recently participated in several major international events: Sydney Biennial (2020), Documenta 14 (Cassel/Athens, 2017), Lyon Biennial (2015), Venice Biennial (2015). Sammy Baloji is represented by the Galerie Imane Farès in Paris.