Biography
Carla Gueye, "Sisters and I", 2023. Photo by Quentin Chevrier.
Carla Gueye (b. 1997, Angoulême) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. She holds a Master’s degree (DNSEP) from the École nationale supérieure d’art de Cergy, France (2022).
Her artistic practice explores notions of intimacy and transculturality, investigating how they emerge and resonate within familial and collective contexts. Through her work, she reflects on the complexity of identities, emotional relationships, and the experiences shaped by encounters and frictions between cultures. By opening herself to otherness, her work reveals emotional, artistic, and socio-ecological dimensions.
Working with materials such as lime and clay, Gueye goes beyond their physical properties to construct narratives that reconfigure cultural knowledge and imagination. Her approach weaves together themes of memory, the feminine figure, and processes of excavation and reclamation of partially silenced or confiscated histories. Her art thus becomes a means of re-inscribing and understanding her own lineage.
Manual labor—central to her poetics, creates an intimate, almost domestic relationship with matter. It becomes a metaphor for construction, in both its social and humanistic dimensions. In this way, her works unfold as sensitive spaces of dialogue and reflection around culture, identity, and the complex networks that shape human experience.
In 2023, Gueye worked in Dakar with designer Bibi Seck, founder of the Dakar Next Design Lab, and later studied traditional pottery with the renowned artist Seyni Awa Camara during a residency in Casamance. In 2025, she will collaborate with Camara on a new series of sculptures for her project “Corps Immergés” (Immersed Bodies)—winner of the COAL Art and Ecology Prize (Ateliers Médicis Mention, 2024)—in partnership with oyster-farming women in Senegal.
Gueye's work has been exhibited in France and internationally, including at the BISO Biennale (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2025), Maif Social Club (Paris, France, 2025), the 36th São Paulo Biennial (São Paulo, Brazil), the 68th Salon de Montrouge (Montrouge, France, 2024), and the Musée Dauphinois (Grenoble, France, 2024). Her work is held in the collections of Instituto Inhotim (Brumadinho, Brazil), the Marquez Family Collection (Miami, USA), the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, USA).
Carla Gueye was honoured as a medalist of the Art Basel Awards 2026.
Gueye’s current research aims to develop a form of “habitable and emotional art,” inseparable from life itself and deeply attuned to social and artistic ecology.
