Born in 1962 in Kunmba (Cameroon).
Lives and works in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Solo Shows

2009

• Samuel Fosso, African Spirits, jean marc patras / galerie, Paris.

2008

• Samuel Fosso, Autoportraits, Photo Ink, New Delhi, India
• Samuel Fosso, Autoportraits, Galeria Maman, Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires
• Samuel Fosso, Vous serez beau, chic, délicat et facile à reconnaître, Autoportraits, Séléction de Christian Lacroix, Festival des Rencontres de la photographique d’Arles.

2007

• Samuel Fosso, Monographie, 7ème Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali.
• Samuel Fosso, Vol.II "Tati", jean marc patras / galerie, Paris.
• Samuel Fosso, Vol.I "Le Rêve de mon Grand Père", jean marc patras / galerie, Paris

2005

• Autoportraits. The Platform for Art, London Underground, Gloucester Road Station, London, Royaume-Uni

2004

• Samuel Fosso, Restrospective. Calcografia, Roma, Italy
• Samuel Fosso, Restrospective. Centro internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, Italy

2003

• Samuel Fosso, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. U.S.A
• Autoretratos, PhotoEspaña 2003. NosOtros, Madrid, Spain

1999

• Galerie Maï Ollivier, Paris.

1997- 1998

• Samuel Fosso, Photographs. Greengrassi, London, UK

1996

• Galerie du Théâtre, Gap, France

1995

• Centre National de la Photographie, Paris.

Group Shows

2009

• Samuel Fosso, Monographie. Bamako, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain

2008

• El juego Africano de lo Contemporaneo. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Union Fenosa, Coruña, Spain.

2007

• Role Exchange.Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, U.S.A
• Afica Remix. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2006

• Masquerade, the self in contemporary art. Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia.
• The whole world is rotten. C/AC, Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH. USA.
• Samuel Fosso. 9th Havana Biennale, La Habana, Cuba.

2005

• 46th October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia.
• Africa Remix. Hayward Gallery, London UK
• Africa Remix. Centre Pompidou, Paris

2004

• 26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brasil.
• Image and Identity. Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé »The Sheldon Art Galleries, St Louis, Mo, USA
• Africa Screams. Iwalewa Haus University Bayreuth, Germany.
• Africa Remix. Museum KunstPalast,Düsseldorf.

2003

• Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé, Portraits of Pride, Bidens Hus, Sundsvall/Norskt Fotomuseum Oslo, Norway.
• Make it Beautiful, the Dandy in Photography, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, UK.
• Geometry of the face, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen. Denmark.

2002

• The Short Century : Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, New York.
• The 6th International Photography Gathering, Aleppo, Syria.
• Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé, Portraits of Pride, September Stockholm Fotofestival, Moderna Museet, C/O Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden.

2001

• Africa Inside, Tampere, Finland.
• The Short Century : Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. Villa Stück, Munich.
• The Short Century : Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Martin Gröpius Bau, Berlin.
• The Short Century : Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

2000

• Dak’Art. Biennale d’Art Contemporain Africain, Dakar, Sénégal.
• Africa Inside. Noordelicht photo Festival, Fries Museum, Netherlands.

1999

• Africa by Africa : a photographic view, Barbican Art Gallery, London.

1998

• L’Afrique par elle-même. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.

1997

• Studio Photo, 50 ans des magasins Tati. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
• L’Abattoir. Châlon-sur–Saône. France
• Lumière Noire. Château de Tanlay, France
• Retrats de l’anima, Fotografia Africana. Centre Cultural de la Fundacio la Caixa, Granollers & Vic, Barcelona. Spain
• In/Sight : African Photographers, 1940 to the present. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. U.S.A
• Artothèque, Grenoble, France.
• Festival des Trois continents. Nantes, France.

1995

• Photographes Africains, FNAC, Forum des Halles, Paris.

1994

• Autoportraits « Première Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine », Bamako, Mali.

Collections

• Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
• Musée National d’Art Moderne/ Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• The Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Cal, USA
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.
• The Philadelphia Museumof Art, PA, USA.
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA.
• Edwin A Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, USA.
• The Newark Museumof Art, Newark, NJ, USA.
• The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY. USA.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX. USA
• Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH, USA
• International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA.

Awards

• 2001 Prince Claus Fund Award, Den Hague, The Netherlands.
• 2000 Dak’Art Firts prize for photography. Dakar, Senegal
• 1995 Afrique en Création, Paris.

Books

 

Collection photographies : Une histoire de la photographie à travers les collections du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne
by Quentin Bajac and Clément Chéroux

Hardcover
Publisher: Editions du Centre Pompidou
Date: November 22, 2007
Language: French
ISBN-10: 2844263488
ISBN-13: 978-2844263483

 

 

 

 

Platform for Art: Art on the Underground
by Alex Coles

Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Date: 29 November 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906155062
ISBN-13: 978-1906155063

 

 

 

 

Samuel Fosso (Hardcover)
by Guido Schlinkert and Maria Francesca Bonetti

Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
Date: June 28, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8874391013
ISBN-13: 978-8874391011

 

 

 

Blink
by Editors of Phaidon Press

Hardcover: 440 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Date: May 31, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714841994
ISBN-13: 978-0714841991

 

 

 

Masquerade
by Rachel Kent

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1921034084
ISBN-13: 978-1921034084

 

 

 

 

 

L'aventure de la photo contemporaine de 1945 à nos jours
de Louis Mesplé

Hardcover: 255 pages
Publisher: Editions du Chêne
Date: 22 November 2006
Language: French
ISBN-10: 284277602X
ISBN-13: 978-2842776022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tati 50 x 50
de Collectif

Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Steidl
Date: 3 September 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3882435631
ISBN-13: 978-3882435634