After graduating from the École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques in Paris, Vincent Michéa moved to Dakar in 1986 to work as a graphic designer, at a time marked by the rise of Afro-pop cinema and the early development of African rap. In 1987, he presented his first exhibition at the National Gallery of Senegal, marking the beginning of his public artistic career.
Between 1988 and 1991, he returned to Paris, where he worked alongside Roman Cieślewicz, a major figure in Polish and European graphic design. This collaboration played a key role in deepening his interest in printed matter, typography, and experimental printing techniques, which would remain central to his practice.
Back in West Africa, he co-founded the label 100% Dakar and collaborated with the DKR studio throughout the 1990s, contributing to a dynamic visual culture connected to music, publishing, and urban creativity. In 2007, he led photomontage workshops at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa, and from 2008 onward, he directed the screen-printing workshop at the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Marrakech, passing on his technical expertise to new generations of artists.
Michéa’s artistic universe is strongly shaped by his passion for music, particularly vinyl culture and the graphic design of album covers, which he often reinterprets or reconstructs in his work. His images are characterized by vivid color fields, simplified compositions, and carefully staged everyday scenes, placing him in dialogue with Pop Art while remaining rooted in West African visual cultures.
Through his work, he constructs a nostalgic and idealized vision of Dakar, highlighting modernist architecture, the vibrancy of its musical history, and a recurring presence of floral motifs that seem to saturate the urban landscape.
