Born in Senegal in 1961, Amadou Kane Sy alias Kan Si graduated from Ecole Nationale des Arts in 1991. A multifaceted artist who works in painting, printmaking,installation, photography, video and poetry, he was in the steering commitee of several organizations and used to be the president and founding member of « Man Keneen-Ki »,an artists’association working to safeguard street children in Dakar. He is a founding member and coordinator of the artists collective « Huit Facettes Interaction » that participated in Kassel Documenta 11 in 2002.

 

Kan Si has organized as well as participed in numerous artist residencies, exhibitions, and symposia internationally. In collaboration with the African-American artist MuhsanaAli he founded and cordinate with her the activities of« Portes et Passages du Retour », an art initiative through the activities of a Center for Art and holistic developemnt in the rural area in Senegal and a Gallery space in Dakar. He lives and works between Dakar, Goree and Joal.