Moussa Traoré was born in 1988 in Sikasso, and now lives and works in Bamako, Mali.
He graduated at the National Institute of Art, and at the Bella Fasséké Kouyaté Conservatory of Bamako.
Traoré is a painter with a background in sculpture, and in his recent works he represents animal-like forms, that appear both personified and other-worldly. All of his paintings, made on fabrics, are untitled, to suggest and stress on the spirit and essence of things, the energy trasmitted above notions of name and materiality.