Barthélémy Toguo

He works in a variety of media aside from visual and performing arts including photographs, prints, sculptures, videos, and installations.

Toguo studied at the National school of Fine Arts in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, at the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble, France and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.

It is an art center located in his native Cameroon that includes an exhibition space, a library, an artist residency, and an organic farm.

The main building is designed with five armed concrete pillars and topped with a ten meter high gable; this sloped roof respects the traditional architecture or the area.

[7] During his residency over the summer in 2018, he created some of the works for his exhibition The Beauty of Our Voice, presented at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York,[8] from August 5, 2018 to October 14, 2018.

His first solo exhibition at an American museum, The Beauty of Our Voice expanded his gaze to the U.S. with new watercolor paintings, installations, photography, performance, and a community art project.

[9] Toguo is a multiple disciplinary artist whose work addresses migration, colonialism, race, exile and displacement.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at institutions including Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, France; La Verrière by Hermès, Brussels; Fundaçao Gulbenkian, Lisbon; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

He states, “What guides me is a constantly evolving aesthetic but also a sense of ethics which makes a difference and structures my entire approach.