Artist: Keita, Souleymane

Souleymane Keita was a contemporary visual artist born in Gorée, who began his artistic career at a young age. He was enrolled at the Dakar National Fine Arts Academy at age 13 where he studied under the painter Iba Ndiaye. His works were inspired by his home town. Keita employed symbols to express his connections to spirituality, his personal experience, his vision of identity and what it means to be African. Keita taught ceramic and painting at Jamaica Arts Center in New York.