Aliou Ndiaye is a visual art curator and researcher of African artistic creations in the context of transnational mobility. His last research turned across six European countries. This fieldwork research observes the evolutions of contemporary African art in the context of globalization, migrations, and cultural diversities. Ndiaye received his Bachelor’s degree at the National School of Arts, Senegal, in 2001, a Master's degree at Université de Lille, in Migrations Studies, in 2018 and an Advanced Master’s in Intercultural Communication (Lugano University, Switzerland). From 2001 to 2005, he worked as a journalist at a Senegalese daily news publication where he wrote stories on culture. A collaborator of Independent Curators International since 2016, he is also an individual member of Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR, Switzerland), since 2015. He directed, as curator, the last RIPO #4 visual arts event, the International Biennial paintings of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso, and contributed to many more cultural events around West and Central Africa in Bamako (photography Biennial 2012), Brazzaville (Lecturer for RIAC 2014), etc. and is curator of several artistic projects in Senegal.
His last curatorial project, in February 2022, is talking about West African Heritage artefacts with the scientific collaboration of URICA research laboratory at Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal) and Goldsmiths University (London). Ndiaye is interested on visual culture, language, and to the evolution of visual arts in the postcolonial and postmodern contexts. He lives and works in Dakar, where he is currently doing his Ph.D dissertation project at Cheikh Anta Diop University.
