Moussa Tine

Moussa Tine (born 1953) is a Senegalese contemporary painter and sculptor.

[1] Moussa Tine was born on 10 March 1953, in Ndiane, in the Thiès Region, Senegal.

[2] His first job as a young boy was working as a ticket taker and announcer for car rapide (Senegalese mini buses).

[3][4] He started his pursuit of art in the 1970s by painting motifs and signs on the car rapide.

[7] In 1992–1993, Tine's work was included in the traveling group exhibition of fifty Senegalese artists called, Dream, Myth, and Reality: Contemporary Art From Senegal, sponsored by the National Gallery of Senegal in Dakar, and the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C..[8] In 2014, Tine's work was exhibited at the Tafeta in London, through the Mille Arts Foundation with part of the sales going to the Red Cross Ebola Outbreak Appeal.