Binta Diaw is an Italian and Senegalese artist born in 1995 in Milan, Italy. She lives and works between Milan and Dakar, Senegal. Binta Diaw is a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera di Milano in Milan, as well as the École d'Art et de Design de Grenoble in France.
Binta Diaw's work has been exhibited numerous times around the world, notably at major events such as the Gwandju Biennale (2024), Manifesta (2024), the Liverpool Biennale (2023), the Berlin Biennale (2022), Les Rencontres de Bamako, African Photography Biennale (2022) and the Dakar Biennale (2022).
The artist's works are part of prestigious international collections such as the Kadist Collection (USA/FR); the collection of the Museo del Novecento (IT) and the collection of the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT - Castello di Rivoli (IT); as well as the collections of several national French institutions such as the CNAP - Centre National des Arts Plastiques [National Center For Visual Art], or those of the FRAC - Fonds Régionaux d'Art Contemporain [Regional Funds for Contemporary Art], Champagne Ardenne and Alsace.
Binta Diaw has received several international awards such as the Flash Art Prize for Emerging Artists (2025, IT); the Pujade-Lauraine Carta Bianca Prize (2022, FR); and the Wonderful Prize from the Museo del Novecento (2020, IT).
Binta Diaw was also a finalist for the Maxxi Bvlgari Art Prize (2024, IT) and the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize (2023, FR).
Solo exhibitions (selection): La Sagesse des Lianes [The Wisdom of Lianas], Parco Art Vivente, Turin, Italy (2025 - upcoming); Art Basel Paris, Paris, France (2025); Il peut pleurer du ciel, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2024); Da qui, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Paris, France (2024); Del Cosmo e Della Terra, Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce, Italy (2024); Paysages, Magasins Généraux, Grenoble, France (2022); Toolu Xeer, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal (2022); Les tirés ailleurs, Bungalow ChertLüdde, Berlin, Germany (2022); A Living Experience of Feeling Listened, Lungomare, Bolzano, Italy (2021); Dïà s p o r a, Project Space, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (2021)
Expositions collectives (sélection) : »Speak, old top-knot, what do you want? «, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (2025) ; Recipes for Broken Hearts, Bukhara Biennale, Uzbekistan (2025); The Power of the Unseen, Express Newark, USA (2025); Faire famille, Nouveau Printemps, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, France (2025); Maxxi Bvlgari Art Prize 2024, Museo Maxxi, Rome, Italy (2024); Pansori, A Soundscape of the 21st Century, 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2024); Manifesta 15, The European Nomadic Biennial, Barcelona, Spain (2024); ITALIA 70 - I nuovi mostri, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy (2024); Renaissance, Museion Museum, Bozen, Italy (2024); Confluences, Logotype and Subtitle Intersectional Visions of Italy, De La Cruz Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington DC, United States (2024); A Body of Memory (from neurons to the sea), Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway (2023); Infiltrées - 5 manières d'habiter le monde, Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris, France (2023); Unraveling the (under-)Development Complex or Towards a Post-(Under-Development Interdependence), Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (2023); Postcolonial ecologies, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordanie (2021); I have this memory, It is not my own, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal (2020); Waves between us, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo Fondazione, Guarene, Italy (2020)