DJIBRIL DRAME | CV
Born in 1988 in Dakar, Senegal. Lives and works in Dakar, Senegal
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2024-Pan-African Curatorial Studies Programme, Ségou’Art, Kôré Institute, Ségou, Mali
2023-Certificate in CCI Entrepreneurship and Financing for CCI, Senghor University, Nairobi, Kenya
2016-ICI Curatorial Intensive, Independent Curators International, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2014- BA Journalism and Communications, ISSIC, Dakar, Senegal
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 IMADI, Dakar, Senegal (Dak’Art Biennial OFF)
2023 Mehari Sequar Gallery, Washington D.C, USA
2021 Institut Français, Saint-Louis, Senegal Centre Socio-Cultural J. Ndiaye, Gorée Island, Dakar, Senegal
2015 Basquiat Art Gallery, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2014 Goethe-Institut, Dakar, Senegal
2012 Haus der Jugend, Freiburg, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025-Nov 12th – December 7th, 2025 | "Lines of Sight: Africa Now," opening at Galerie Struder - Abidjan/ Cote d’Ivoire - Africa Foto Fair”, Edition 4th
October 29th – Musée des Civilisations Noires : Dakar, Mupho : Saint Louis, Sobo Bade : Toubab Dialaw | Senegal “Dooley Jiggeen, Suuf ak Ndox”with Ina Thiam, Fatoumata Diabate, Rama Salla Dieng, Amina Jules Dia, Cheikh O. Diallo and Mamy Hawa
Pays Bassari, Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble, France
Xolu Dakar Bi, University of Cambridge/Cambridge ArtSpace, Cambridge, UK
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat Rebellion, Ecobank Pan African Centre, Lagos, Nigeria (upcoming)
2024- Kigali Triennial, Kigali, Rwanda
Dem Dikk/Vaivia, Italian Cultural Institute, Dakar, Senegal (Dak’Art Biennale OFF)
2023-Sharjah Triennial, Dubai, UAE
House of Reasoned Truths : Recent Video Art from Africa, Tifawt Digital Arts Festival, Rabat, Morrocco & Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, USA
Transcending Earth, Affinity Gallery Lagos, Nigeria
KAFART 4th Kaduna Fashion & Art Exhibition, Kaduna, Nigeria
Chale Wote Festival, Accra, Ghana
2022 - Still I Rise, Google Headquarters, Paris, France
New African Narratives, Cairo Marriott Hotel, Cairo, Egypt
Across Generations, Brookfield Properties Art & Culture, 99 Bishopsgate, London, UK
Yàgg Na, Galerie Teranga, Tunis, Tunisia (Dak’Art Biennale OFF)
2021-Imagine Blackness, Unit, London, UK
Visage, Ancien Musée de Peintre, Grenoble, France
2020- Geew Bi, Institut Français, Dakar, Senegal
2019- Wall of Contemplation, MACAM Museum, Aalita, Lebanon
Kigali Foto Fest, Kigali, Rwanda
Reflecting Matter, Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Art Life Project, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA
2018-Key West Foto Fest, Florida, USA
Time is Love, International Museums Virtual Show
2017- African Fashion Prints Now, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Yalla Yalla, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Washington D.C. & Artfully Spaced Gallery, Los Angeles
2016- Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
African Film Festival, Lincoln Film Center, New York, USA
2013 Follow the Light, FGO-Barbara, Paris, France
2011 Photo Africa, Tarifa, Spain
2009 Les Plus Beaux Moments du Sport au Senegal, Goethe-Institut, Dakar, Senegal
ART FAIR PRESENTATIONS
2022 Photo London, London, UK
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Christie’s, Paris, France
2021 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Christie’s, Paris, France
Art X Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
PUBLIC REALM INTERVENTIONS
2024 Forgotten Icons, Dakar (Dak’Art Biennial OFF, curated BY Fatima Bocoum)
Knowledge & Movement (co-presentation with SM Kanji)
2020 You Are Beautiful the Way You Are (group presentation co-curated with Modou Dieng)
MEMBERSHIPS
Kamoigne Black Photographers Collective (2024 – present)
RESIDENCIES
2025 Black Rock Senegal (founded by Kehinde Wiley), Cycle 6 Official Selection (current)
Dëkandoo Artist Residency, Hahatay, Gandiol, Senegal (Current)
The Over Gallery with Pol & Grace Artist Hotel, Barcelona, Spain (upcoming)
2024 Finding Etherea, Grand Popo, Benin
COLLECTIONS
Represented in private collections across Africa, Europe, UAE and USA
Universal Music Group – EMI Records UK
The Somewhere Collection
Majed Halawi Collection
PUBLICATIONS FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
2022 Dakar nid d’artistes, Makila Editions, Morocco & Senegal
2021 Afro Surf, Mami Wata, South Africa
2016 African Print Fashion Now, UCLA Fowler Museum, USA
2015 Musique sénégalaise, Vives Voix Editions, Senegal
2009 Dakar émoi, Vives Voix Editions, Senegal
SELECTED COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
2024 Movement Director for Gabriel Moses & Pharrell Williams’ All I Dream about is Sports,
adidas Originals commission
2023 Chief Editor & Artistic Director, Nataange vol II fashion publication, Goethe-Institut
Vogue Japan, Dakar location fashion shoot with actress Nana Komatsu
2021 Creativity in Motion, Vogue USA
Film Producer for Moussa Sene Absa’s Xalé, Senegal submission for Oscars 2022
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025 Fecc/Danza, MUPHO Musée de la Photographie, Saint-Louis, Senegal (co-curator Sara Catalan)
2022 Associate Curator, CanAfrica NFT Exhibition 2022, NFT Canarias (co-curator Charlie Five)
Associate Curator, Demb ak Tay, Henriette Bathily Museum, Dakar, Senegal
2021 Contemporary Art Curator for Moussa Sene Absa’s Xalé, Senegal Oscars submission 2022
2020 You are Beautiful the Way You Are, public realm intervention (co-curator Modou Dieng)
2017 Visual Art Curator, Afro Music Festival, The Union, Los Angeles, USA
2013 L’Emotion Ecrite (Mandione Laye Keb), Espace Medina, Dakar, Senegal
SELECTED ARTICLES
2025 Numero Art China, Issue on graffiti, duo features with Blu Ami
Voyage Los Angeles, feature on my practice
2024 British Journal of Photography, Issue NO., Mutual aid: profile of Kamoigne Collective
2023 Washington Post, review of solo exhibition More True than Fact
Nataal, review of solo exhibition More True than Fact
2022 The Guardian, In Pictures: Across Generations: A Black History Month Exhibition
Gida Journal, Vol I, Momo Hassan-Odukale & Mira Makadia eds, Momo Lagos, Nigeria/UK
Dada Magazine, Issue I, 2022, Oyinkansola Dada ed., Dada Gallery, Nigeria/UK
Something Curated, Editorial Highlights: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Paris 2022
2021 Jeune Afrique, profile: Dakar au-délà des clichés avec Djibril Drame
2020 Oath Magazine, Vol I, Stephanie Blomkamp ed., South Africa