Omar Ba

An Artist in Constant Transformation

Born in Senegal in 1977, Omar Ba lives and works between Dakar and New York. His paintings—created using a variety of techniques and materials—depict political and social themes open to multiple interpretations. His visual language engages with historical and timeless questions while developing an artistic vision that is thoroughly contemporary.

Omar Ba studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Dakar and later in Geneva. In recent years, he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Voyage au-delà de l’illusion at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2022) and Global(e) Résistance at the Centre Pompidou (2020). His works have been acquired by several public collections, including those of the Centre Pompidou and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in France, the Swiss National Collection (Basel), and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Through his complex and luminous works, Omar Ba explores politics, the economy, the exploitation of resources, and disease, as well as the ontological ambivalence of the world—between civilization and barbarism, between the past and the future. This book offers insight into his paintings and echoes the inaugural exhibition at the Templon Gallery in New York.