Born in Cameroon, Africa, in 1965

EDUCATION

1986-91               University of Yaoundé, Cameroon

Licence Bilingue English-French, 1989

Maitrise es Lettres, in African Literature, 1990

1987-92  Art training with Dr. Pascal Kenfack (artist and art historian) at his private studio, Yaoundé, Cameroon

I started working as an independent artist in 1992.

2001and2002         Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

SOLO SHOWS (selected)

2003               Fiction ou realite?, Fri'Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
               Dancing with the Moon, Espace Doual'Art, Douala, Cameroon
2001               Goddy Leye, Icba Gallery, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

2000               Sankofa Blues, Doual'Art, Douala, Cameroon

1999               Sankofa Blues, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

                Behind the Scenes, Electronic Cafe International, Santa Monica, the USA/on Internet

               Sankofa River, Espace Doual’art, Douala, Cameroon

               Sankofa, Centre Culturel Francais, Douala, Cameroon

Sankofa Video, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

1996               Fouilles Sauvages,  Espace Doual’art, Douala, Cameroon

1995       Bois Sacré,  Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Bois Sacré, Ifa (Institute for artistic training)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007               Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

               Ba Mama, Galerie Mam, Douala, Cameroun2003

               Contemporary Vision, The World Bank, Yaoundé, Cameroun

2006               Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

               Exit Tour, Douala, Cotonou, Lomé, Accra, Ouagadougou, Bamako, Dakar

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2003       New, Netwerk galerij, Aalst, Belgium
               Unesco laureates, 18th street arts complex, Santa monica, USA
               Post-border land, SBK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
               Nuits métis, la Ciota, France

2002               Electromediascope, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, USA

Slow, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

               Rendez-vous at Xiamen, Chinese European Art centre, Xiamen, China

               Nuits métis, la Ciota, France

Right 2 fight, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, USA

               Sao Paulo Biennial (Blick Weshel), Sao Paulo, Brazil

               Playtime, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001       Bili Bidjocka/Goddy Leye, Espace Doual’art, Douala, Cameroon

               BlickWeschel, IFA, Berlin

Lucarne, Goethe-Institut, Yaounde, Cameroun

2000               BlickWischel, Bonn, Stuttgart, Germany

Total Global, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Bale, Switzerland
Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

Dak'Art 2000, Biennale de l’Art contemporain africain, Dakar, Senegal

South Meets West, Berne, Switzerland

Boulev'Art, Cotonou, Benin

               Sept des cents derniers jours, Espace Doual’art, Douala, Cameroon

               Lille 2000, Lille, France

1999       South Meets West, Accra, Ghana

Dream, Espace Doual'art, Douala, Cameroon

1998               Triennale der kleineplastik, Stuttgart, Germany

                       Dak’art 98, Dakar, Senegal

                       Fenac 98 (Festival national de l’Art et de la Culture), Ebolowa, Cameroon

1997       L’Art entre Tradition et Globalisation, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Le Kwatt, Espace Doual’art, Douala, Cameroon

Babil2, Espace Doual’art, Douala, Cameroon

1996               Resource Art Cameroon, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Cameroon Art, Galeria Arte Mondo, Sarrano, Italy

Africa Unite, Galerie Africréa, Yaoundé, Cameroon

               Nouvelles Tendances de la Peinture camerounaise, Galerie Africréa, Yaoundé, Cameroon

1995       Babil, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Taxi-couleurs, ERBA(Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts),Angers, France

1994               Fenac 94, Douala, Cameroon

Taxi-Couleurs, CCF-INA, Bamako, Mali