Anna Binta Diallo

Anna Binta Diallo is a multidisciplinary visual artist who explores themes of memory and nostalgia to create unexpected works about identity. She was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1983, grew up in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, and has lived for more than fifteen years in Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang. Diallo’s practice spans video, sculpture, public art, and installation, each firmly rooted in collage as both a medium and a conceptual underpinning. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. She is the recipient of several grants and distinctions. Her work was shortlisted for SSNAP (2019, 2023) and she won the Barbara Sphor Memorial Prize and Black Designers of Canada Award of Excellence (2021). She was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award (2022). She teaches at the University of Manitoba's School of Art, on Treaty 1, traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples and the Métis Nation.