Anta Germane Gaye
Anta Germaine Gaye (born 1953) is a Senegalese painter and sculptor.
Also recorded as Aissatou Germaine Anta Gaye
Anta Germane Gaye
- Name
- Anta Germaine Gaye
- Birthplace
- Saint-Louis, Senegal
- Education
- Cheikh Anta Diop University (BA), l'École normale supérieure d'éducation artistique
- Occupation
- Painter, sculptor, mixed media artist
- Born
- 1953 Anta Germaine Gaye (born 1953) is a Senegalese painter and sculptor.
- Nationality
- Senegal
- Honours
- Order of Merit of Senegal
- Languages
- French
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Anta Germaine Gaye (born 1953) is a Senegalese painter and sculptor.
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Anta Germane Gaye (born 1953) is a painter and sculptor, a national of Senegal. The painter was born in Saint-Louis.
Languages used include French. Honours include Order of Merit of Senegal.
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• Name — Anta Germaine Gaye • Birthplace — Saint-Louis, Senegal • Education — Cheikh Anta Diop University (BA), l'École normale supérieure d'éducation artistique • Occupation — Painter, sculptor, mixed media artist • Born — 1953 Anta Germaine Gaye (born 1953) is a Senegalese painter and sculptor.
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Anta Germaine Gaye was born on 1953, in Saint-Louis, Senegal. She attended the Arts Education High School of Dakar. Gaye graduated with a degree in English from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. She also attended the l'École normale supérieure d'éducation artistique (ENSEA) in Dakar. She works on painting on glass, reverse glass painting (or sous verre), ceramics, and metal sculpture.
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Exhibitions
• 1983: Cosaan (tradition) Daniel Sorano National Theatre of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal • 1985: American-Senegalese meeting, National Art Gallery of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal • 1987: Art against Apartheid, Dynamic Museum Dakar, Dakar, Senegal • 1990: Unita Festival, Pian di Massiano, Perugia, Italy • 1991: Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France • 1995: Signes Plus (Helsen), Maison de la Culture de Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland • 1996: Finalists for the President of the Republic Prize for the Arts, Dakar, Senegal • 1998: Le Pont (metal sculpture), Goethe-Institut, Saint-Louis, Senegal
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Anta Germane Gaye born at Saint-Louis.
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- 1.Harney, Elizabeth. In Senghor's shadow : art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960-1995. Duke University Press. 2004. 978-0-8223-8605-6.
- 2.Grabski, Joanna. Trajectoires: Art Contemporain du Sénégal. African Arts. 41. 1. 88–91. March 2008. 0001-9933.
- 3.Anta Germaine Gaye. Imago Mundi Collection.
- 4.Ferera, Lisette. Women Build Africa. Gouvernement du Quebec. 199. 2000. 978-2-551-20341-3.
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Anta Germane Gaye is recorded as having received Order of Merit of Senegal.
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