Born in 1977 in Senegal, Omar Ba lives and works in Dakar. His paintings, produced using a variety of techniques and materials, represent political and social motifs open to multiple interpretations. His artistic vocabulary raises historical and timeless questions while formulating a wholly contemporary artistic message. Omar Ba’s iconography features personal metaphors, ancestral references and hybrid figures. This combination of heterogeneous elements illustrates his desire to abolish boundaries and categories. His work, with its enigmatic nature and poetic intensity, rejects all forms of didactic narrative, seeking instead to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of the real
Ombre portée d'un peuple 1 , 2022
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink and Bic pen on canvas
59 × 51 1/8 in.
Compartiment-aller simple 5 , 2022
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink and Bic pen on canvas
92 7/8 × 51 1/6 in.
Voyage au-delà de l’illusion 1 , 2022
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink and Bic pen on canvas
96 3/7 × 78 3/4 in.
Dispersion devant l’impasse , 2022
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink and Bic pen on canvas
78 3/4 × 110 1/4 in.
Genesis 1:26-27 , 2021
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink and Bic pen on canvas
78 6/8 × 59 in.
Bagdad 2006 – Syrte 2011 , 2018
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink, Bic pen on cardboard
78 1/8 x 53 3/8 in.
Box des accusés – les accusateurs , 2018
Oil, pencil, acrylic, gouache on Craft-polyester paper
98 7/8 x 62 1/4 in.
Plaidoyer d'une jeunesse , 2018
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink, Bic pen on cardboard
78 1/8 x 76 5/8 in.
Ouattara-Gbagbo-Sarkozy , 2018
Acrylic, gouache, oil, pencil on canvas
78 3/4 x 54 3/4 in.
Same dream , 2018
Acrylic, gouache, oil, pencil on canvas
78 3/4 x 54 3/4 in.
Fruits-masques-insectes , 2018
Acrylic, gouache, oil, pencil on canvas
78 3/4 x 54 3/4 in.
Costume pour terroriste , 2018
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink, Bic pen on cardboard
78 1/8 x 53 3/8 in.
How to learn , 2018
Acrylic, gouache, oil, pencil on canvas
98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.
CPI – Deux poids, deux mesures , 2018
Acrylic, pencil, oil, Indian ink, Bic pen on cardboard
76 3/8 x 54 3/4 in.
War junkie , 2018
Oil, pencil, acrylic, gouache on Craft-polyester paper
97 5/8 x 63 in.
Diafate , 2018
Oil, pencil, acrylic, gouache on cardboard canvas
98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.
Between 1 , 2017
Oil, pencil, Indian ink and acrylic on canvas
78 3/4 x 59 in.
Identity 1 , 2017
Oil, pencil, acrylic, gouache on cardboard
67 x 55 in.
Identity 2 , 2017
Oil, pencil, acrylic, gouache on cardboard
67 x 55 in.
