Ernest Dükü: Writing Identities

Ernest Dükü was born on November 7, 1958, in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire. He was trained in both architecture and fine arts, with degrees from the Ecole d'Architecture la Défense and Université de Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, Ecole Nationale Supériere des Arts Décoratifs, and the Ecole National des Beaux Arts. He has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions from 1995 to the present. Among the venues for his solo exhibitions have been Espace Arts Lebaudy, Galerie Agbe et Gbalicam, and Galerie Philippe Lawson in Paris; Espace Daniel Sorano in Vincennes; and Galerie Lumières d'Afrique in Brussels. Recent group exhibitions include “Modernity in African Art of Today” at the PANAF Festival of Algiers (2009); “African Artists Celebrating the Ethiopian Millennium” at the Belvedere in Baltimore (2007); and the “International Fair of Last Arts” at the Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris (2004), among many others. He is featured in publications that include Ernest Dükü: Feitiço, Galerie Lumières d'Afrique; Nouveau regard sur l'art contemporain africain, Collection Olivier Sultan; Les Afriques: 36 artistes contemporains, Edition: Autrement; as well as in Revue Noire's Anthologie de l'art Africain du XXème siècle.