{{short description|French-Senegalese photographer (born 1977)}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2024}} {{infobox person | name = Delphine Diaw Diallo | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}} | birth_place = France | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Photographer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Delphine Diallo''', or '''Delphine Diaw Diallo''' (born 1977) is a French-born photographer of Senegalese descent. She has previously lived in Paris and Saint-Louis, Senegal, but is now in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 September 2020 |title=Delphine Diallo: Reframing the Black Woman's Body Through the Female Lens |url=https://artshesays.com/delphine-diallo-reframing-the-black-womans-body-through-the-female-lens/ |access-date=6 December 2024 |website=ART SHE SAYS |archive-date=19 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219160404/https://artshesays.com/delphine-diallo-reframing-the-black-womans-body-through-the-female-lens/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Biography== Delphine Diallo was born in 1977, in France.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Diallo graduated from the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Art in Paris in 1999, before working in the music industry for seven years as a special-effects motion artist, video editor and graphic designer.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
In 2008, she moved from Paris to New York to explore her own practice.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Diallo was mentored by photographer and artist Peter Beard, who was impressed by her creativity and spontaneity before offering her to collaborate for the Pirelli calendar photo shoot in Botswana.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Warner |first1=Marigold |title=Delphine Diallo's portraiture seeks to unify and empower - 1854 Photography |url=https://www.1854.photography/2019/09/delphine-diallo/ |access-date=6 December 2024 |work=British Journal of Photography |date=30 September 2019}}</ref> Inspired by new environments on this trip, she decided to return to her father's home city of Saint-Louis in Senegal to start her own vision quest.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Seeking to challenge the norms of our society, Diallo immerses herself in the realm of anthropology, mythology, religion, science and martial arts to release her mind.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Diallo combines artistry with activism, pushing the many possibilities of empowering women, youth, and cultural minorities through visual provocation.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Diallo uses analog, digital photography and collages as she continues to explore new mediums.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} She is working towards creating new dimensions and a place where consciousness and art are a universal language by connecting artists, sharing ideas and learning.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
== Selected exhibitions and series ==
* 2023: ''Highness''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Killian |title=Black womanhood celebrated with majestic headdresses – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/23/majestic-headdresses-hair-delphine-diallo-joanne-petit-frere-in-pictures |access-date=6 December 2024 |work=the Guardian |date=23 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mothes |first1=Kate |title=Delphine Diallo Portrays Divinely Elegant Black Women in Elaborate Headdress Sculptures by Joanne Petit-Frère |url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/08/delphine-diallo-joanne-petit-frere/ |website=Colossal |access-date=6 December 2024 |date=9 August 2023}}</ref> * 2019: ''African Spirits'', Yossi Milo Gallery / Fisheye Gallery{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2019: MIA Photo fair – Italia / Fisheye Gallery{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2019: ''Photo London'' / Somerset House / Fisheye Gallery{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2018: Art Basel Miami ''No Commission{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}'' * 2018: Paris Photo / Fisheye Gallery{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2018: ''Les rencontres d Arles'' / Fisheye Gallery Paris "Invisible Symbole"{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2018: ''Cambridge - Resignification'', The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2018: ''''The Grace of Black Women'', National Arts Club in New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2017: ''No Commission, Berlin'', Curated by Swizz Beats and the Dean Collection, Germany{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2016: ''Unseen Photo Fair'', Red Hook Lab Gallery, Brooklyn, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2016: ''No Commission NY''. Curated by Swizz Beats and The Dean Collection, Bronx, New York * 2015: ''Looking for America'', Diffusion, Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales * 2015: ''Photoquai'', 5ème Biennale des images du monde, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France * 2014: ''Intangible Beauty, Part I & II'', Kasher Potamkin Gallery, New York, New York * 2014: ''Portraits by Delphine Diallo''. Curated by Jamel Shabazz, Photoville, Brooklyn, New York * 2014: ''Harlem Postcards'', Studio Museum in Harlem, New York * 2013: ''Emerging: Visual Art & Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era'', Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art, Brooklyn, New York * 2013: ''Freedom Ride'', Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York * 2012: ''Highness'' / Magic Photo Studio, Addis Foto Fest, Ethiopia * 2012: ''Africa, See You, See Me'', Dak’Art OFF, Goethe-Institut, Dakar, Senegal * 2012: ''The Great Vision'', Mariane Ibrahim Abdi (M.I.A.) Gallery, Seattle, Washington{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2012: ''Configured'', Benrimon Contemporary, New York, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2012: ''Voice of Home'', Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''Curate NYC'', online exhibitions and guest curated shows, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''Pixelating: Black image in the age of digital reproduction'', Lambent Foundation, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art, Brooklyn, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''The African Continuum'', United Nations, New York, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''Selected mixed media works'', Opera Gallery, New York, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''Are You a Hybrid?'', Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''Africa, See You, See Me'', Fondazione Studio Marangoni & Officine Fotografiche, Rome, Italy{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2011: ''The Black Portrait''. Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha L. Logan, RUSH Art Gallery, New York, New York{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} * 2010: ''Africa, See You, See Me'', Museu da Cidade, Lisboa, Portugal{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==General references== * {{cite journal |last1=Pallwein-Prettner |first1=Sophia |title=Delphine Diallo: artist analysis archive |journal=Global Contemporary Artist Analysis Archive |date=1 May 2021 |url=https://scholar.utc.edu/global-contemporary-artists/14 |access-date=6 December 2024}}
==External links== * {{Official website}}
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