BIOGRAPHY
Caroline Gueye is a Senegalese visual artist. She was born and raised in Senegal and then pursued her studies in France, the United States, and China. She holds degrees in astrophysics (Tulane University, USA) and atmospheric physics (University of Lyon). She also speaks Chinese.
Her training in astrophysics has shaped her artistic work and stimulated her interest in space.
Caroline Gueye's work examines perception, visibility and access through spatial and material situations.
Her installations alter how viewers orient themselves in space, using reflection, framing and thresholds to produce unstable relations between body, image and distance. Trained in astrophysics and atomic physics, she approaches physical phenomena not as subjects but as working conditions for artistic production.
Her practice has included artistic research conducted in microgravity conditions and an artwork sent into space in June 2025. In May 2024, she became the first Senegalese artist to create a work in zero gravity during a parabolic flight. She is also the only artist to incorporate analog lunar materials and spectroscopic sounds into her installations.
Caroline Gueye is currently preparing a PhD in art and science, further strengthening the link between these two disciplines.
Her work has been exhibited at KINDL – Center for Contemporary Art (Berlin), FRAC Centre-Val de Loire (Orléans), Musée Théodore Monod (Dakar) and the Dak’Art Biennale, where she received the ECOWAS Prize in 2022.
She lives and works in Senegal and Europe.
The “Spectroscopy” installation, created in partnership with the IRAP laboratory (Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology), was able to incorporate sounds from Mars transmitted by NASA: a world first.
In 2021, she was also selected for a residency at Villa Romana in Florence (Italy), which was postponed due to COVID-19.
In 2019, she won the Transversia competition organized by the Ankaria Foundation in Madrid, Spain. In 2018, she completed a residency with the Assilah Foundation in Morocco, and in 2016, she was an artist-in-residence at the Songshuang Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in Beijing, China.
His collaboration with Chinese artist Qin Chong's studio was a turning point that strengthened his interest in shapes, volumes, and spatiality.
Her installation “Road” on Gorée Island (Senegal), a major site of Black deportation, denounces modern slavery, at the BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) in Dakar (Senegal), at the Ankaria Foundation (Spain), at the Assilah Forum Foundation (Morocco), Arcueil Town Hall (France), the former Dakar airport, and APIX (Promotion of Investments and Major Works in Dakar).