The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection
À qui la traite nègrière a-t-elle réellement profité ? - 2001
134 x 189 cm Acrylic and sequins on canvas
À qui la traite nègrière a-t-elle réellement profité ? - 2001
135 x 202 cm Acrylic and sequins on canvas
Adam et Ève - 2007
135 x 200 x 2.5 cm
Acrylic, glitter and pearls on canvas
Après le 11 Sep 2001 - 2002
200 X 350 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Attention à la désobéissance - 2008
135 x 199 x 2 cm
Acrylic, glitters and pearls on canvas
Barack Obama président charnière - 2009
134.5 x 200 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Cassette deviergée - 1984
85 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
Chéri Samba corrige l’historien Bogumil Jewsiewicki - 1997
130 x 194 cm
Chéri Samba et Moke - 1984
85 x 69 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Chic et chiques - 2008
135 x 199 x 2 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Collège de la sagesse - 2004
199.5 X 250 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Condamnation sans jugement - 2007
134.5 x 200 x 2 cm
Acrylic, glitter and pearls on canvas
Couleurs de l’homme - 1999
145 x 201 cm Acrylique et paillettes sur toile
Coup d’oeil aux femmes - 1995
81 x 116 cm
Acrylic on canvas and sequins
Dans la chambre - 1998
130 x 203 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Déjà - 2007
134 x 199 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Devoir sacré d’un enfant 1 - 2008
134 x 200 cm
Acrylic, pearls and glitter on canvas
Devoir sacré d’un enfant 2 - 2008
135 x 200 cm
Acrylic, pearls and glitter on canvas
En regardant les poissons - 2007
135 x 200 x 2 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Enfin !.. après tant d’années - 2002
200 X 330 cm
Acrylic, glitter and sequins on canvas
Étonnant cadeau aux mariés - 1995
81 x 116 cm
Acrylic on canvas and sequins
Evandeli Ya Mabe - 2000
140 x 197 cm Acrylic on canvas
Falsifier un nom c’est dénaturer son porteur - 1997-1998
131 x 204 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
G.T.M. - 2005
200 x 289 cm Acrylic on canvas
Hommage aux anciens créateurs - 1999
151 X 201 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Hommage aux anciens créateurs - 2008
134 x 200 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
J’ n’suis pas malhonnête - 2000
129 x 194 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
J’aime la couleur - 2003
206 X 296.7 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Je suis un rebelle - 1999
146 X 204 cm
Acrylic, glitter on canvas, sequins
Kinshasa ville d’ambiance - 1994
122 x 147 cm
Acrylic on canvas
L’adorateur - 1992
91 x 94 cm
Acrylic, glitter on canvas and sequins
L’agriculteur sans cerveau - 1990
144 x 193 cm
Acrylic on canvas
L’employeur et l’employé - 2013
139 x 204 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
L’espoir fait vivre n°2 - 1997
130 X 194 cm
Acrylic, glitter on canvas, sequins and glued mixed medium
Given to MoMA in 2019
L’homme qui mange de la peinture - 2008
134.5 x 200 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
L’industrie de la femme - 2007
135 x 200 x 2 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
L’ouverture de la chine textile au monde - 2005
134.5 x 200 cm
L’ouverture de la chine textile au monde - 2005
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
La Chute du 3è baobab - 2006
300 x 496.6 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
La désolation - 1987
83 x 93 cm
Oil on canvas
La femme Noire peintre - 1999
200 x 146 cm Acrylic on canvas
La fuite des jeunes cerveaux - 2005
202 x 281 cm Acrylic on canvas
La mort de l’économie - 1994
129.4 x 200 cm Acrylic and Congolese franc collage on canvas
La promiscuité - 1999
146 x 203 cm Acrylic on canvas
La promiscuité - 1999
146 x 205 cm Acrylic on canvas
Lait maternel - 1998
131 x 205 cm Acrylic on canvas
Le 2eme Bureau - 1997
131 x 195 cm Acrylic on canvas
Le bien et le mal - 1999
146 x 203 cm Acrylique sur toile
Le chef rebelle au repos - 1999
136 x 208 cm Acrylique sur toile
Le commun des politiciens - 2003
200 X 300 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Le Copiste - 1990
138 x 178 cm
Acrylic on canvas and glued mixed medium
Le drapeau tricolore - 1990
145 x 189 cm
Oil on canvas
Le fantasme - 1999
131 x 183 cm Acrylique sur toile
Le feu de femmes - 2010
134.5 x 200 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Le lavement - 1987
65 x 54 cm
Le Marché de l’art - 2006
200 x 289.5 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Le monde avant les continents - 2011
135 x 200 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Le monde contradictoire - 1995
131 x 197 cm Acrylic on canvas
Le Monde vomissant - 2004
200 x 269 cm Acrylic on canvas
Le nid dans le nid - 1996
135 X 203 cm
Acrylic on canvas, sequins and glued mixed medium
Le peintre Chéri Samba en 1975 - 1983
84.2 x 43.5 cm
Le petit poisson - 2003
81 x 100 cm
Le regard en avant - 1996
130 x 194 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Le secret d’un petit poisson devenu grand - 2002
200 X 330 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Le Sida ne sera guérissable que dans 10 ou 20 ans - 1997
130 X 194 cm
Acrylic, glitter on canvas, sequins and glued mixed medium
Le sommeil des riches - 1996
132 x 196 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Les chefs de cuisine Zaïroise - 1993
82 x 101 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Les embrouilleurs - 1995
131 x 196 cm Acrylic on canvas
Les fonctionnaires en Afrique Noire - 1994
128 x 199 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Les sous-vêtements - 2005
199.5 x 279.5 cm
Les tours de Babel dans le monde - 1998
130 x 203 cm Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Les tribulations d’un reporter - 1984
81 x 71 cm
Oil on canvas
Les virus jumeaux - 2014
135 x 200 cm
Lilith la 1ère femme d’Adam - 2007
137.5 x 207 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
© Chéri Samba
Little Kadogo – I am for Peace, That is Why I Like Weapons - 2004
204.5 x 245.5 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Lutte contre l’insalubrité - 1998
130 X 195 cm
Acrylic on canvas and glued mixed medium
Mama Mbangala au repos - 2007
132 x 204 x 2 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Marche de nuit (Marché de nuit) - 1995
126 x 191 cm
Merci, merci je suis dans la zone verte - 2020
135 x 200 cm
Mission satanique - 2005
199.5 x 289 cm
Mozali Nzela - 1991
128 x 190 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Na couloir Ya Ba Peintres Oyo - 1992
129 x 194 cm
Oil on canvas
Pays alignés - 1994
131 x 201 x 2.3 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Peinture de Chéri Samba - 1993
114 x 162 cm
Acrylic on canvas, sequins and glued mixed medium
Peuple du calvaire - 1993
169 x 199 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Point d’âge pour l’amour - 1999
133 x 203 cm Acrylic on canvas
Politesse impolitesse - 1983/1984
86 x 65 cm Acrylic on canvas on particle board
Pour réaliser un bilan précieux - 2001
135 x 202 cm
Acrylic, glitter on canvas, sequins and glued mixed medium
Pourquoi bien d’Africains ne progressent-ils pas ? - 1994
131 x 200 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Pourquoi six jours au lieu d’un instant - 2007
135 x 200 x 2 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Présent mais absent - 2004
203 x 284 cm Acrylic on canvas
Problème d’eau (The Water Problem. Where To Find Water?) - 2004
135 x 200 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Given to MoMA in 2019
Prophète de malheur - 1995
130 x 196 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Quel avenir pour notre art? (N° 1/3). First painting of a triptique - 1997
131 X 195 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Quel avenir pour notre art? (N° 2/3) - 1997
130 X 195 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Quel avenir pour notre art? (N° 3/3) - 1997
130 X 201 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Quelle solution pour les hommes ? - 2001
200 X 285 cm
Acrylic on canvas and sequins
Réfléchir avant d’agir - 1990
145 x 186 cm
Remerciements à la griffe sambaïenne, - 2000
135 x 200 cm Acrylic and sequins on canvas
Sirène - 1978
50 x 59 cm Oil on canvas
The Draughtsman, Chéri Samba - 1981
137 X 96 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Toutes les nanas sont pareilles - 1996
130 x 194 cm Acrylic, glitter, sequins and mixed medium on canvas
Ultimatum - 1999
195 x 138 cm Acrylic on canvas
Un bilan précieux - 2001
135 x 191 cm Acrylic, sequins and mixed medium on canvas
Un tour à Matonge Bruxelles - 2007
135 x 200 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Une peinture à défendre - 1993
129 X 193 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Voici le temple ou l’église Chéri Samba - 2004
135 x 85 cm Acrylic on canvas
Voyage au purgatoire, à l’enfer et au ciel - 1996
131 x 196 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Y a-t-il de la viande en Afrique ? - 1990
152 x 201 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Zaïre Mémorial - 1992
65 x 82 cm
Acrylic and glitter on canvas
Chéri Samba
Born 1956, Kinto M'Vuila, Belgian Congo
Lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
In 1972 Chéri Samba left school in order to apprentice himself to the sign painters on Kasa Vubu Avenue in Kinshasa; from this circle of artists (which included Moke, Bodo, and later Samba’s younger brother Cheik Ledy among others) arose one of the most vibrant schools of popular painting in the twentieth century. Working both as a billboard painter and a comic strip artist, Samba employed the conventions of both genres when he began making paintings on sacking cloth (canvas being too expensive) in 1975; most importantly, he borrowed from comic art the device of “word bubbles,” which allowed him to interject not only narrative but also commentary into his compositions. Samba has recalled how he came to use text in this paintings: “I had noticed that people in the street would walk by paintings, glance at them and keep going. I thought that if I added a bit of text, people would have to stop and take time to read it, to get more into the painting and admire it. That’s what I called the ‘Samba signature.’ From then on I put text in all my paintings.” In the early 1980s he began signing his paintings “Chéri Samba: Artiste Populaire.” Indeed, the popularity of his paintings soon went beyond Kinshasa’s city limits; by the mid 1980s his work was gaining an international audience.
Samba’s paintings of this period reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. Samba has explained, “My painting is concerned with people’s lives. I’m not interested in myths or beliefs. That’s not my goal. I want to change our mentality that keeps us isolated from the world. I appeal to people’s consciences. Artists must make people think.” From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Chéri Samba, Vénus over Manhattan, NY, USA (May 8 - June 15)
2023/2024
Chéri Samba dans la collection Pigozzi, musée Maillol, Paris, (October 17 - April 7)
Curators : Elisabeth Whitelaw and Jérôme Neutres
2022
Chéri Samba: Stupéfaction - Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris (17 September - 23 October)
2020
Chéri Samba, Corridor Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
2013/2014
Chéri Samba, Quel avenir pour notre art? – Painting 1989-2009 - Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium (06 Sep 2013 - 01 Feb 2014)
2007/2008
Chéri Samba - Corsoveneziatto Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy (04 December 2007 – 31 January 2008)
2005
Les débuts de Chéri Samba - Kunstverein- Braunschweig - Germany (5 March – 8 May)
J’aime Chéri Samba - A selection of paintings from the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier - Texas Southern University - Houston - USA (28 Jan – 8 May)
2004
J’aime Chéri Samba - Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain - Paris – France
Interview of Chéri Samba at the Cartier Foundation
2003
Chéri Samba moto na Tervuren, Musée Royal de l’Afrique, Tervuren – Belgium
2000
Chéri Samba une fois encore à Kinshasa, Centre Culturel du Zoo, Kinshasa - République Démocratique du Congo
1999
Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen - Germany.
1998
Cheri Samba. MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland.
1997
Chéri Samba, Übersee Museum, Bremen, Germany
1996
National Museum of Oceanian and Africain Arts, Paris - France.
1991
Portikus Kunsthalle, Francfurt - Germany.
1991
ICA -Institut of Contemporary Art, London- UK
1991
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - U.S.A.
1990
Cheri Samba, le peintre populaire du Zaïre, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostende - Belgium.
1990 - 1989
La grande exposition publique Cheri Samba, Kinshasa -Democratic Republic of Congo, formely Zaïre.
1984
Chéri Samba, Centre Culturel Français, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo
1980
Cultural French Center, Kinshasa -Democratic Republic of Congo, formely Zaïre.
1975 -1978
La Grande exposition publique Cheri Samba, Kinshasa -Democratic Republic of Congo, formely Zaïre.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Constellation - Galerie A-MAGNIN, Paris, France (21 January - 18 mars)
2022
Bande-Annonce, La Collection Pigozzi à Cannes - Gare Maritime de Cannes, France (12 July - 21 August)
2019
Alpha Crucis, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (01.22 to 09.30 2020)
Congo Paintings, Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Vichy, France (05.03 to 10.31 2019)
Prête-moi ton rêve, Exposition panafricaine itinérante (June 2019-June2020)
Itinerary: Casablanca, Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos, Addis Abeba, Cape Town
Truth Tellers, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York City, USA
2018
Africa Passions, Palais Cadaval, Evora, Portugal
Reading Walking. Louis Vuitton Travel Book, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Quel Amour !?, MAC, Marseille, France
2017
Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier. Les Initiés, un choix d’œuvres (1989 – 2009) dans la collection d’art africain contemporain de Jean Pigozzi. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (04/26/17 to 09/04/17)
Highlights, Collection of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art at Museum of Art (SeMA), Korea
On aime l'art...!! Un choix d'Éric Mézil parmi les oeuvres de la Collection agnès b., Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
E-Mois, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
Gaia à travers ses miroirs, Villa des Arts, Rabbat, Maroc (dans le cadre de l'évènement L'Afrique en Capitale)
Histoires congolaises, bibliothèque Robert-Desnos, Montreuil, France
AFRICA. Raccontare un mondo, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2016
Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism, Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
L'instance de la lettre, Au Médicis, Galerie Marguerite Milin, Paris, France
Congo Art Works. Popular Painting, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Essentiel Paysage, Al Maaden Art Gallery, Contemporary African Art Center, Marrakech, Morocco
Vivre !! La collection agnès b. au musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, National Museum of the History of Immigration, Paris, France
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, USA
2015
Une brève histoire de l’avenir, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Beauté Congo – 1926-2015 – Congo Kitoko, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
FIAC OFFICIELLE, Grand Palais & Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris
Picasso Mania, Grand-Palais, Paris, France
1:54, Contemporary African Art Fair, London UK
1:54, Contemporary African Art Fair, New-York, USA
Art Genève, Switzerland
2014
Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy: From the Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection, Ethelbert Cooper, Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ici l’Afrique/Here Africa - L’Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Musée des Suisses dans le Monde, Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
Vivid Memories, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
African way, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-bains, France
FIAC OFFICIELLE, Grand Palais & Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris
1:54 Foire d'art contemporain africain, London UK
Art Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2013
Raw Vision, 25 ans d'Art Brut, La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK
Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
Peintres reporters de l’urbanité, à Kinshasa, Latitude 21, Dijon, France
Focus sur la collection, Musée de la Fondation Zinsou, Ouidah, Benin
Mehr Licht, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
2012
Afrovision, L’art moderne d’Afrique, Modern Art Museum, Bakou, Azerbaïdjan
Africa/Africa, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France
2011/2012
The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany
2011
JAPANCONGO: Carsten Höllerʼs double-take on Jean Pigozziʼs collection, Le Magasin,Centre national d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France. The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Riad Al Maaden, MAGNIN-A, Marrakech, Maroc
2010
Kinshasa Pop, Galerie Pangée, Montreal, Canada
African Stories
Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech, Morroco
2009 - 2010
Africa? Una nuova storia
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
2009
Against Exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennial, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2007/2008
Why Africa? Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Intrusions, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France
"Popular Painting" from Kinshasa, Tate Modern, (Room 10), London – UK
2007
Venice Biennale, Italian Pavillon, Venice, Italy
Black Paris, Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany
2006/2007
100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2006
Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, MOT, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, France
African Art Now : Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, USA
2004/2006 (travelling exhibition)
Africa Remix, Art contemporain d’un continent:
- Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf - Germany * 24 July 2004 – 7 Nov 2004
- Hayward Gallery, London – England * 10 Feb 2005 – 17 April 2005
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – France * 15 May 2005 – 20 Aug 2005
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo * Feb – May 2006
2004
Le Salon du Mai, Atheliers Berthier, Opera National de Paris, Paris, France
Peinture populaire congolaise, ADEIAO – Centre d’Etudes Africaines, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France
Je m’installe aux abattoirs, La collection d’art contemporain d’agnès b., Les Abattoirs, Toulouse - France
Les Afriques, Tri Postal, Lille, France
2003
Der Rest der Welt, Neuffer am Park Pirmasens, Germany
Kin Moto na Bruxelles, Hôtel de Ville, Brussels, Belgium
2003
Sexuality and death, AIDS in Contemporary African Art, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
2002 – 2003
Afrikanische Reklamekunst (L’art et la pub en Afrique), Iwalewa-Haus, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2002
Espace Croise "Kin Service", Contemporary Art Center. Roubaix, France.
Swiss National Exhibition - EXPO 02: "Money & Value", Lake of Biel, Switzerland.
Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil
Sao-Paulo, Brazil
Kinshasa Congo. Fabien Rigobert / Moke, Chéri Samba, Espace Croisé, Centre d’art contemporain, Roubaix, France
Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2001
An/Sichten: Malerei aus dem Kongo 1990-2000, Museum für Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
1999-2000
Kustwelten im Dialog
Museum Ludwig
Cologne, Germany.
1998
Africa Africa Vibrant New Art from a Dynamic Continent.
Tobu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Dak’Art 98, Biennale de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
1996
Neue Kunst aus Afrika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1995-1996
An Inside Story : African Art of our Time Beyong Art
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo.
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum.
Himeji City Museum of Art.
Koriyama City Museum of Art.
Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Museum of fine Art, Gifu.
JAPAN.
1994
Centre d’Art et de la plaisanterie, Galerie des Extravagances, Monbéliard, France
1994-1991
Africa Explores : 20th Century African Art
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York - USA
Center for African Art.
New York - USA
Berkeley University Art Museum.
Bekerley- USA
Prestel -Munich, Germany.
Dallas Museum of Art, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, USA
Mint Museum of Art, USA
Fundacio Antoni Tapies
Barcelona, USA
Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
The Center for Fine Arts
Miami, USA
The Carnegie Museum of Arts
Pittsburgh, USA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington D.C., USA
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1993
Africa Art Now: Urban Culture from Africa, Setagaya Museum and The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
1992-1991
Africa hoy
Atlantic Center of Modern Art.
Las Palmas Gran Canary - Spain.
Contemporary Cultural Art Center
Mexico D.F., Mexico.
Groningen Museum.
Groningen, Te Netherlands
1991
60 ans de la peinture zairoise
German Cultural Center.
Kinshasa - RDC, formely Zaïre.
1990
Provincialo Museum voor Modern Kunst.
Gallery Annenie Dubron.
Ostende, Belgium.
1989
Magiciens de la Terre
Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande Halle de la Villette.
Paris, France.
1985
Peintres Populaires du Zaïre, l'Art Vivant d'Afrique Centrale
Laval University Department of History, Quebec.
Montreal University -Department of Anthropology, Canada.
1982
Visages et Racines du Zaïre
Decoratives Arts Museum
Paris, France.
1978
Art Partout
Fine Art Academy, CIAF
Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo, formely Zaïre.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Finestre sull' Arte, N°10 - Arte Antica E Contemporanea Giugno Luglio Agosto - Italy. pp.146-159
2021
Ex Africa - Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac - Sous la direction de Philippe Dagen - Gallimard, Paris
2019
Among Others: Blackness at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 390-391
2019
1-54 New York
Art Africa Ltd. Fair Catalogue p.68
2017
Les Initiés, un choix d’œuvres (1989 – 2009) dans la collection d’art africain contemporain de Jean Pigozzi. Editions Dilecta, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. Catalogue d’exposition.
2015
Beauté Congo 1926-2015 Congo Kitoko, Fondation Cartier, Exhibition catalogue
2015
Une brève histoire de l’avenir, Musée du Louvre, Louvre éditions, Exhibition catalogue
2015
Beaux-arts éditions, Picasso.mania, Paris, 2015
2015
Fiero, Gloria K., The Humanistic Tradition: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Global Perspective, Seventh Edition, McGraw Hill Education, pg 505
2014
Ma première histoire de l'art, Béatrice Fontanel, Editions Palette, pg 114.
2014
Ici L'Afrique/Here Africa, Contemporary Africa through the eyes of its artists, Exhibition catalogue, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, Art for the World, pgs 60-1.
2014
Apostrophe, Français 5è, Hachette Livre International, pg 27.
2014
Mémoires Vives, 30 ans Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Fondation Cartier, Paris
2014
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Exhibition catalogue, Publised by Museu Picasso, Barcelona, pgs 52-57, 59,64,66,72,74,112.
2013
Collection Louis Vuitton Travel Book, Louis Vuitton Edition, Paris
2012
Collection Blachère 2003/2013, Fondation Blachère
2010
AFRICA. OBJETOS Y SUJETOS Exhibition catalogue, published by cajAstur
2009
The Making of Art, Edited by Hans Belting & Andrea Buddensieg
2009
The Global Art World
Exhibition catalogue edited by Martina Weinhart & Max Hollein
2009
Africa? una nuova storia
Exhibition catalogue, published by Gangemi Editore
2008
ANGAZA AFRIKA African Art Now By Chris Spring, Published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
2008
High Quality, Advertising Art Design Photography Writing, Préface : Jûrgen Rautert, Achim Heine et al., published by Heidelberg. Germany.
2008 Swindle n°15
2007
Chéri Samba
Exhibition catalogue. Published by Silvana Editoriale Spa
Cinisello Balsamo, Milan
2007
Why Africa?
Exhibition catalogue. Published by Electa & Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli.
2006
100% Africa
TF Editores & FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.
2005
Les débuts de Chéri Samba
Kunstverein Braunschweig
Verlag Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne
2005
Arts of Africa: The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi
Skira Edition & Grimaldi Forum Monaco.
2005
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection
Exhibition catalogue. Published by Merrell.
2004
J'aime Cheri Samba from the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Exhibition catalogue, André Magnin editor, André Magnin and Robert Storr, authors. Interviews with the artist by A. Magnin. Painter of Modern Life by R. Storr
2004
Living with Art
Seventh Edition by Mark Getlein. Published by McGraw Hill.
2004
Africa Remix
Exhibition catalogue. Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
2003
Mami Wata : la peinture urbaine au Congo
Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Le temps des images.
2003
Der Rest der Welt
Exhibition catalogue. Pirmasens, Allemagne. Catalogue
2003
Kin moto na Bruxelles
Exhibition catalogue. Quand Kinshasa réchauffe Bruxelles, Bruxelles. P. 62 à 88, 177 à 186, 220 à 237.
2003
Afrikanische Reklamekunst
Exhibition catalogue. De Tobias Wendl. Edité par Peter Hammer et Iwalewa-Haus, Afrikazentrum der Universität Bayreuth.
Tobias Wendl. P. 84 - 85, 174.
2002
Autour de Chéri Samba
Exhibition catalogue. Coll. Galerie Marc Dengis, Bruxelles, Belgique.
2002
Painting on the Move
Exhibition catalogue. Bernhard Mendes Bürgi & Peter Pakesch. Kunstmuseum, Basel, P. 141.
2002
Africa apart. Afrikanisch Künstler konfrontieren Aids
Exhibition catalogue. Santu Papa. Berlin p. 98 - 101. Sabine Schlenker and Ingo Taubhorn.
2002
Une Fresque pour Matonge
Exhibition catalogue. Galerie Marc Dengis. Textes de Guy Forsbach et Jean-Pierre Jacquemin.
2002
The World of Art
400 peintres du 1200 - 2002. Prof. Robert Belton. Préface C. Rothko.
P. 65 & 431 (Mobali ya Monyato).
2002
Afrikanische Kunst
Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer & Karin Guggeis. P. 150, Munich, Deutscher Kunstverlag
2001
An / Sichten. Malerei aus dem Kongo 1990-2000.
Exhibition catalogue. Kinshasa – Kin Kiese par Bogumil Jewsiewicki.
Edition : Springer-Verlag/Wien und Museum für Volkerkunde. Wien, Autriche.
2001
Titouan Congo Kinshasa
Titouan Lamazou, Paris, Gallimard.
2000
A History of Art in Africa.
Monica Blackmu Visona, Robin Poynor, Herbert M ; Cole, Michael D. Harris, Suzanne Preston Blier, Rowland Abiodun.
Prentice Hall Inc et Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Londres. P. 409 (Mobali ya Monyato).
2000
Revue 02
Exhibition catalogue. Kinshasa, Congo.
2000
Expériences du Divers
Exhibition catalogue. « Chéri Samba – ‘Ambassadeur Universel’ » p. 63-69. Texte de Nathalie Le Gouill et Florence Marqueyrol. Entretien avec Jean-Hubert Martin p.109-116. Texte en français. Collection Métier de l’exposition. Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2000.
1999
Experiences du Divers. Cheri Samba- Universal Ambassador, p.63-69.
By Nathalie Le Gouill & Florence Marqueyrol.
Introduction : Jean-Hubert Martin p.109-116. Text in French.
Collection Metier de l'exposition. Rennes, University Press 2000.
1998
Africa Africa : Vibrant New Art from a Dynamic Continent, Tokyo.
Text by Toshio Shimuzu, collective exhibition catalogue, 146 pages.
Tobu Museum, Japan.
1997
Cheri Samba, Paris.
Hazan, Musee national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie.
Book of 95 pages, text in French by Jean-Hubert Martin & Philippe Garcia de
la Rosa.
1996
Contemporary Art of Africa, p.162-163. Text : Jacques Soulillou.
Edited by André Magnin and Jacques Soulillou.
Publisher Harry N. Abraams.
1995
Cheri Samba. The Hybridity of Art. L'hybridite d'un Art.
Bogumil Jewsiewicki. Bilingual texts : French, English. Book of 102 pages.
Contemporary African Artists, N1.
1992
Cheri Samba Opere recenti ottobre.
Exhibition Catalogue, 43 pages.
Trento : Raffaeli Studio d'arte.
1991
Cheri Samba.
Book, text in German, 103 pages.
Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Bender.
Trickster Verlag.
1991
Aka Soa, Udro-Nkpo, Srele...Art in Black Africa.
Text in English by Andre Magnin, p.15-24.
Africa Now. Groningen Museum.
1990
Saint Cheri, vie et oeuvres " im "pies.
Text in french : Jean-Pierre Jacquemin, 84 pages.
In Cheri Samba, le peintre populaire du Zaïre.
Exhibition catalogue, retrospective.
Ostende : Proviciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, (october/january).
1989
Magiciens de la terre.
Cheri Samba Text in French p.223.
Edited by The Georges Pompidou Center.
