SOLO SHOWS
2015
Malick Sidibé : Studio Malick, Bamako, Mali, Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Studio Malick, Brittany and Montparnasse stations, Frac Bretagne, Conseil régional and SNCF, France
Close to, Medical Center And Educational Rennes-Beaulieu, France
2014
Malick Sidibé, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Photographies : Malick Sidibé, 8th Festival Cinémas d’Afrique, Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne, Switzerland
2012
Malick Sidibé, Agnès b. gallery, New York, USA
Malick Sidibé, Bamako Style, Oliva Arauna Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011
Malick Sidibé, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Malick Sidibé. The eye of Bamako, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2010 – 2011
Malick Sidibé, Month of Photography, Palffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovaquia
2010
Malick Sidibé. La vie en rose, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Malick Sidibé, Lichfield Studios Art Gallery, London, UK
Bamako nights. Photographies by Malick Sidibé, Hermine de Plouha space, GwinZegal Association, Saint-Brieuc, France
2009 – 2010
Malick Sidibé and fashion photography, Frontières, 8th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of photography, Bamako, Mali
2009
Bamako Nights. Photographies by Malick Sidibé, Nicéphore Niepce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Malick Sidibé, Bamako Style, Oliva Arauna Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2008
Malick Sidibé, Chemises, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Nederlands
Malick Sidibé 08, Zinsou Fondation, Cotonou, Benin
Bamako 60-70, Photographies by Malick Sidibé, Pôle Image Haute Normandie, Rouen, France
2007
Malick Sidibé: Photographs, Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa
Malick Sidibé : Los Sabena Club, Fifty One Fine Art Photography – Anvers, Belgium
Malick Sidibé, Bagadadji ritratti inediti, Savigniano immagini festival, Savignano sul Rubincone, Italy
2006
Tribute to Malick Sidibé, Photofesta, French Cultural Center of Maputo, Mozambique
2005
Photographs: 1960-2004, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
Studio Malick, La Filature, Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, France
2004
Malick Sidibé, CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
2003 – 2004
Malick Sidibé, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Malick Sidibé, Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Malick Sidibé, 2003 Hasselblad Award Winner, Exhibition from Hasselblad Center, Stockholm, Sweden – Centro de Artes, Visuais Coimbra, Portugal – Kristianstad, Sweden
Malick Sidibé: Photographies of Bamako’s life, from 1960 till today, Pincé Museum, Angers, France
2003
Malick Sidibé, Conrad Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Malick Sidibé, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, USA
Studio Malick, Jack Shainman Gallery New York, USA
2002
Malick Sidibé, Hackelbury Fine Art Ltd., London, UK
Malick Sidibé, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, USA
Malick Sidibé, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, USA
2001 – 2002
Malick Sidibé, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Malick Sidibé, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nederlands
2001
Malick Sidibé Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Malick Sidibé, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2000
Malick Sidibé, Contemporary Art Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Clubs of Bamako, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA
1999
Malick Sidibé : The Clubs of Bamako, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Malick Sidibé, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Malick Sidibé, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
1998
Malick Sidibé, Institut Français de Thessalonique, Thessaloniki, Greece
Malick Sidibé, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich, Germany
1997
Malick Sidibé: Fotografie 1962-1976, Clubs und Twist und Chats Sauvages, Ifa-Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1995
Malick Sidibé: Bamako 1962-1970, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
GROUP SHOWS
2015
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Magnin A, New-York, USA
2011-2015
The New York Times Magazine Photographs, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France – Foam, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Palau Robert, Barcelona, Spain – Centro de Extensión, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile – Fotofestiwal Lodz, Lodz, Poland – MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, USA – Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, USA
2014
African way, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-bains, France
2013
Kyotographie International Photography Festival, The Museum of Kyoto Annexe, Kyoto, Japan
Keïta, Ojeikere, Sidibé, 11 Columbia, Monaco
Bamako Photo in Paris, Pavillon carré de Baudouin, Paris, France
Plural Modernities from 1905 to 1970, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Leur Afrique, 3rd Festival Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2012
Everything was Moving : Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
We face forward. Art from West Africa today, Manchester art gallery, Manchester, UK
Who, What, Wear. Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
Africa/Africa, Saint-André Abbey, contemporary art center, Meymac, France
2011
Another story. 1000 photographs from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010
African Stories, Magnin-A, Former Bank of Morocco, Marrakech, Morocco
A useful dream: African photography 1960-2010, Summer of photography, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Afronova, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
Attention souriez… et la vie est belle! Pennyblack, Milan, Italy
2007 – 2008
Why Africa? The Pigozzi Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli – Turin, Italy
2006
100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Vive l’Afrique, Galerie du Jour – Agnès b., Tokyo, Japan
About Africa, part one, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2005
Arts of Africa, The Contemporary collection of Jean Pigozzi, Grimaldi forum, Monaco
Vive l’Afrique, Galérie du Jour – Agnès b., Paris, France
Africa Urbis, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
2004 – 2005
Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, Scalo Project Space, New York, USA
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington DC, USA – Kurzdavordanach, Photographischen Sammlung/SK Siftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany – Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Image and Identity: Portraits, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St Louis, USA
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel, London, UK
New Acquisition: Local and Global Contemporary Photography, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, USA
Joy of Life: Malick Sidibé and Ojeikere, Two Photographers from Africa, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Fifty One celebrates four years, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Pretty World, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Je m’installe aux abattoirs: agnès b. contemporary art collection, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Staged realities: exposing the soul in African photography 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 – 2004
Nous Remontons de la “Calle” Toutes les Photographies, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris, France
Go Johnny Go! The Electric Guitar: Art and Myth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Global Village : The 60’s, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, Canada – Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
2003
Correspondances Afriques, Iwalewa-Haus Afrikanzentrum der Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Les ateliers des désirs Philip Kwame Apagya, Seydou Keïta & Malick Sidibé, Centre Culturel Français, Freiburg, Germany
Photographies and contemporary textiles from Mali, Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland
2002 – 2005
African Art, African Voices : Long Steps Never Broke a Back
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
2002 – 2003
Portraits of Pride: Seydou Keïta / Malick Sidibé / Samuel Fosso
Norsk museum for fotografi – Preus fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
Bildens Hus Sundsvall, Sweden
Xposeptember Foto Festival 2002, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Malick Sidibé / Seydou Keïta, Hackelbury Fine Art Ltd., London, UK
2002
Summertime blues, Conrad Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001-2002
You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé – Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums – Cambridge, Etats-Unis – UCLA Hammer Museum – Los Angeles, Etats-Unis – National Portrait Gallery – Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Contemporary Art and Photography – Museum of Fine Arts – Houston, Etats-Unis
2001
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 – Villa Stuck – Münich, Allemagne – Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin, Allemagne – Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago, Etats-Unis – P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center – New York, Etats-Unis
I Ka Nyi Tan: Seydou Keïta e Malick Sidibé fotografi a Bamako, Museo Hendrick Christian Andersen, Rome, Italy
Flash Afrique: Fotografie auf Westafrika, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000
Africa: Past-Present, Fifty One Fine art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Porträt Afrika: Fotografische positionen eines jahrhunderts, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Et l’Art se met au Monde, Nouveau Musée de Villeurbane, Villeurbane, France
1998 – 2000
L’Afrique par elle-même
Sala d’Ercole Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologne, Italy – Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA – Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., USA – Barbican Art Center, London, UK – South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa – 3rd African Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali – Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
1999
Malick Sidibé / Seydou Keïta, Photo Espana 99, Madrid, Spain
1998
Malick Sidibé / Seydou Keïta, French Institute, Athens, Greece
1997
Malick Sidibé / Seydou Keïta, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
Retrats de l’Anima Fotografia Africana, Fundacio “la Caixa”, Madrid, Spain
1996
In/ sight : African Photographers, 1940 to the present, Guggenheim Museum, New-York,USA
Vues d’Afrique, Montreal, Canada
2nd African Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali
Malick Sidibé : 18th edition Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, France
1995
Selection 1st African Photography Encounters, FNAC Étoile, Paris, France
Seydou Keïta / Malick Sidibé,The second Scottish International Festival of Photography, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Great Britain
1994
1st African Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali
BIENNALES
2007
Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind – 52nd International Art Exhibition, Lion d’Or de la Biennale de Venise – Venise, Italie
1999
Istanbul Biennial (6): The Passion and the Wave – Istanbul, Turquie
1998
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo: Roteiros – São Paulo, Brésil
AWARDS
2007
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2003-2004
Malick Sidibé – 2003 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center Göteborg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
AFRICAN DRESS
English
Published by Bloomsbury Academic
February 2013
English
Published by Thames & Hudson
August 2012
MALICK SIDIBE: THE PORTRAIT OF MALI
English
Published by Skira
March 2012
CHEMISES
English
Published by Steidl
2008
MALICK SIDIBE: PHOTOGRAPHS
English
Published by Steidl/Hasselblad Center
February 2004
MALICK SIDIBE
English
Published by Scalo
January 1999
Malick Sidibé was born in 1935 into a Peul family in a small village of Mali. He graduated from school in I952. After being noticed for his talent as a draftsman, he was admitted to the School of Sudanese Craftsmen in Bamako from which he graduated in I955.
He decorated the « Photo Service » store of Gerard Guillat, also known as « Gégé la Pellicule », who offered him a job as his apprentice. That’s how he got started in photography in 1956. He opened the « Studio Malick » in I958 in the centre of Bamako in Bagadadji, on 30th Street, Corner I9, where he still prints his portraits today and repairs cameras. The wildness of the 1950’s, and the coming of independence, gave birth to a new generation of photographers who were totally involved in the cultural and social life that they recorded. Malick Sidibé, was a pivotal character in all this, highly appreciated by young people, he was present at all the soirees where the young, organized in clubs, learned the new dances coming from Europe and Cuba, and dressed elegantly in Western clothes. In I957 he was the only reporter in Bamako who covered all the events, festivities and surprise-parties. On Saturdays these parties lasted until dawn and continued on Sunday on the banks the river Niger. This on-the-spot coverage provided simple pictures, full of truth and complicity. From his photos an insouciance and spontaneity emerges: he captured the playful partying, full of laughter and life.
He quit this activity in 1978, but continued his studio photography and repairing cameras. When his work gained an international reputation, new horizons opened up for him. People flock to his studio, magazines commission photo-reports, and he is invited almost everywhere in the world for exhibitions and conferences.
The exhibition at Afronova has been presented in partnership with André Magnin, art critic, curator, writer and artistic director for the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC, The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva, Switzerland). André Magnin works with Malick Sidibé since 1992 and curated his first monographic exhibition in 1995 at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, France. André Magnin is the author of Malick Sidibé, artist monograph published by Scalo Editions in 1998.
Biography by André Magnin