Issa Samb, also known as Joe Ouakam (31 December 1945 – 25 April 2017) was a Senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright and poet.
[2][3] His work was considered to draw from both African tradition and the European avant-garde movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Situationism and Fluxus.
Samb's downtown courtyard studio, often found cluttered with various materials and projects, served as an exhibition of his own.
[6] By 2014, InIVA, an art gallery in London, curated 'Issa Samb: From the Ethics of Acting to the Empire without Signs'.
[7] In 2019, the curator Koyo Kouoh selected Samb's La Cour (The Yard) (2013), an evolving live/works space and courtyard installation, as her pick for the most influential work of the decade.