Ibrahim Ballo

Born in 1986 in Bamako (Mali). Ibrahim Ballo graduated in Plastic Arts from the National Institute of Arts in Mali (2012) and holds a Master in Plastic Arts Conservatory of Arts and Multimedia Trades Balla Fasseke Kouyaté from Mali (2017).

He is the winner of the Sahm workshops award in visual arts - painting. - on the occasion of the 6th edition of the International Meeting of Contemporary Art (RIAC) Congo-Brazzaville - Direction: Dakin Dagara, art historian ( 2017).

Ibrahim Ballo still lives and works in Bamako. He grew up in an environment of weavers. His singular work by which cotton thread becomes one of the raw materials of his creations, affirms a strong link with the cotton history of his country. His characters seem to be suspended in an uncertain time today where life hangs by a thread, in Mali as elsewhere.

Some exhibitions

2019 AKAA (Also Known as Africa)

2018 Meditation - Villa Soudan, Bamako / Contemporary art fair of Africa AKAA (Also Known as Africa) / Exhibition at the French Institute in Mali, initiated by the collective Equations Nomades / Les OFF de Dak (art - Exhibition collective - / Residence in Brazzaville during the 6th edition of the RIAC of Ateliers Sahm /)

2017 Color migration - Group exhibition - Association APAC, Vauréal, France / Institut Français du Congo Brazzaville - Group exhibition - / Espace du Monde - Group exhibition - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

2016 Segou art - solo show - the Off of the Contemporary Art Fair of Mali

2015 Soul of Merit - Collective exhibition, Galerie Medina Bamako organized by the Tim'arts collective / 31st Salon des Artistes pour la Liberté in France in conjunction with Amnesty international, Angers 2015.