Ibrahim Meïté Sikely lives and works in Champigny-sur-Marne and Paris. He obtained his DNSEP from the Villa Arson in Nice in 2022 and is currently a student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He has recently taken part in several exhibitions at CAC Brétigny, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FRAC Pays-de-Loire, Nantes, Villa Arson, Nice, 100% L’EXPO at La Villette, Paris, as well as at the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Cajarc and Les Tanneries, Amilly.

In 2023, he took part to « Après l’éclipse » at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin and to the Salon de Montrouge. He recently exhibited at Nir Altman in Munich and at Project Native Informant, London during Condo London upon invitation of Gianni Manhattan.

Mohamed Bourouissa invited Ibrahim Meïté Sikely to take part to his own solo show Signal currently on view at Palais de Tokyo. The FRAC Île de France also currently exhibits his work The Five Marvelous Neighbors from the 5th Floor as it recently entered the collections. His first solo show will be at the galerie anne barrault in 2025.

Strongly influenced by his environment and history, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely’s practice fuses the visual languages of classic art-historical iconography, comics, manga and video games. Using colorful, shimmering brushwork, tranquil scenes alternate with epic ones, whose fantastic, dreamlike universe recalls the works of Goya and their trenchant social critique, as well as the poetry of Martin Wong’s tales of marginal communities. Through portraiture and allegory, his paintings refer to issues of struggle and justice, trauma and healing.