Binta Diaw
Binta Diaw was born in 1995 in Milan, Italy where she still lives and works. She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and from the ÉSAD in Grenoble.
Often declined in the form of installations of various sizes, Binta Diaw's plastic research is part of a philosophical reflection on the social phenomena that define our contemporary world - such as migration, the notion of belonging or the question of gender - through body and spatiality. By feeding her research through contributions on intersectionality and feminism, Binta Diaw takes us into the exploration of multiple levels of identity: hers as a black woman in a Europeanized world; ours and that of an ongoing crossroads of histories and geographies.
Binta Diaw's work has been shown, in particular, in the exhibitions: “Il peut pleurer du ciel”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, 2024); “Binta Diaw. Essere paesaggio”, Palazzo Banca d’Alba (Alba, 2024); “Da qui”, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Paris, 2024); “Del Cosmo e della Terra”, Villa Pacchiani Centro Espositivo (Santa Croce sull’Arno, 2024); “La Linea Insubrica”, Kunst Meran Merano Arte (Merano, 2024); “ITALIA 70 - I NUOVI MOSTRI”, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi (Milan, 2024); “Regenerative Futures”, Fondation Thalie (Bruxelles, 2024); “Renaissance”, Museion Museion (Bozen, 2024); “Confluences”, De La Cruz, Georgetown University (Washington, 2024); “Art and Human Rights”, Palais des Nations - ONU (Geneva, 2023);“A Body of Memory (from neurons to the sea) - Binta Diaw a Trondheim Kunsthall”, IIC Oslo (Oslo, 2023); “La sostanza Agitata”, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto, 2023); "12th Berlin Biennale" (Berlin, 2022); "13th Rencontres de Bamako / Biennale Africaine de la Photographie" (Bamako, 2022); "The Land of Our Birth is a Woman”, Centrale Fies (Dro, 2022); "Toolu Xeer”, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Dakar, 2022); "Les tirés ailleurs”, Bungalow ChertLüdde (Berlin, 2022); "Golden Hour”, Bloom Galerie (Saint Tropez, 2022); "Beauty and Terror: Places of Colonialisms and Fascisms”, Madre Museum of Naples (Naples, 2022); "Signs of Me”, Casa Testori (Milan, 2022); "and plant seeds for a different way of living”, Titanik and Museum of Impossible Forms (Turku, 2022); "The Recovery plan”, Italian Institute of Culture of Paris (Paris, 2022); "Les Filons Géologiques”, Palazzo Accursio (Bologna, 2021); Museo Novecento (Florence, 2021); "Dïà s p o r a”, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, 2021); "School of Water-Mediterranean, Young Artists Biennale" (San Marino, 2021); "I have this memory, it is not my own”, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Dakar, 2020); "Waves Between Us”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Guarene, 2020); "Nero Sangue”, Museo MAGA (Gallarate, 2020); "In Search of Our Ancestor's Garden" (Milan, 2020); "Soil is an Inscribed Body”, Savvy Contemporary (Berlin, 2019). She has participated in several residencies including: "Résidence Miramar - réseau méditerranéen pour les jeunes artistes" (Tanger, 2022); "Lungomare residency" (Bolzano, 2021); "Viafarini-in-residence" (Milan, 2020-21); "Seeds for future memories" (Villa Romana and Tambacounda, 2020); "YGBI Residency, Black History Month” (Florence, 2020). Binta Diaw has also received numerous awards: "Première laurèate - Prix PUJADE LAURAINE" (FR,IT, 2022); "Award PART-Rimini" (IT, 2022); “Premio Wonderful" (Florence, 2021); "Premio Nocivelli (sculpture)" (Brescia, 2020); "Bourse arts plastiques de la ville de Grenoble" (Grenoble, 2020). Binta Diaw's work has also been shown at the "Liverpool Biennial - 'uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things'" (Liverpool, 2023).