Filly Gueye (Senegal/USA) is an interdisciplinary practitioner whose work traces how cultural knowledge travels across generations and geographies, shaping Black identities and the ways collective life takes form. Her practice explores how collective practices sustain cultural continuity while creating space for reinterpretation, new forms of belonging, and rest beyond the expectations of performance. Working across disciplines and communities, she considers how knowledge is carried, shared, and reimagined, opening possibilities for critical thought, creativity, and new forms of cultural transmission.
During her residency in the UK, Gueye will engage with Black-led cultural spaces, practitioners, and communities to explore how knowledge is gathered, shared, and reimagined through collective practices of care, creativity, and rest. Building on her ongoing research, Collective Futures, these encounters will inform her investigation into how self-defined forms of cultural exchange and collective agency can reshape understandings of power, value, and belonging.
Recent exhibitions and projects include Ideal Seeds for Fertile Grounds, in Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, at RAW Material Company, as part of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2026); Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes, a group exhibition featuring Yacine Tilala Fall, Selly Raby Kane, Maguette Dieng, Ican Ramageli, Hamedine Kane, Eva Diallo, and Babacar “Doli” Traoré; MUȚIKKAPPAȚĀTA, a production residency by Nathalie Vairac; With Every Fibre of (my) Being by Zohra Opoku; and La Ville est à nous / The City is Ours, a production residency by Carole Diop and Nzinga Mboup.
Her recent publications include Schools: We Grow from the Ground We Stand On… (2026), an exhibition catalogue for the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, co-written with Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy and Haja Fanta for RAW Material Company; “Power, Practice, Place: Cultural Politics Reexamined” (2025), a critical essay published in MOST Magazine (Poland); and The Sea Within Us Echoes These Memories (2024), accompanying Souleymane Bachir Diaw’s exhibition project “Hier j’ai dansé avec la mer,” which received the American Vintage Photography Prize in 2023 and was presented during the 39th Hyères Festival at Villa Noailles.
Gueye studied Reconceiving Space: Installation and Performance Art at the University of Cambridge (2022). She also holds a BS in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship from Morgan State University (2013) and an AA in Liberal Arts from Santa Monica College (2010).
Gueye was born in New York, USA, and is currently based in Dakar, Senegal.
With support from:
Delfina’s Network of Patrons for Africa
Artist’s website
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