Born in 1969, Soly Cissé still lives and works in Dakar. Much of his work centres on the duality between tradition and modernity, and he takes a great deal of inspiration from the emotions and events of daily life and the effects of tragedy on daily life. He has exhibited widely in Europe, the Americas and Africa, and was a participant in the acclaimed Africa Remix exhibition in London, Dusseldorf, Paris and Tokyo. He has represented Senegal at biennales in Sao Paolo and Havana along with his native Dakar.