Yubah Sanogo was born on December 15 in 1984 in Bingerville, Ivory Coast. He took his artistic classes at the Center for Applied Arts in Bingerville. He was a studio assistant in the ateliers of Jacques Stenka and Virginia Ryan. His works have already been shown in Italy, appear in the catalogs and leaflets of major exhibitions in Côte d’Ivoire.
Yubah Sanogo is inspired by the energy of dozo hunting and the strategy of spider hunting to show finesse and skill. And in the spirit of creativity, he looks at the water and the sky.
Indeed, the dotted lines appearing in his works are drops of water from the sky, which invade and create significant shapes. For him, reading the immensity of water is a blessing because it is a source of life, it expresses hope and provokes the courage which contributes to our daily lives. The shapes that emerge from it create links that put us all in touch.
The artist tries to find out what really drives the public at the level of: their vision, their feeling. Then he returns to the subject and explains the shapes and the location of the ideas to describe the coordination of the figures produced.
He exhibited in 2010 at the Biennale Internationale Mami Wata at the Fondation Donwahi in Abidjan. The following year he participated in the collective exhibition at La Rotonde des Arts Contemporains in Abidjan. Then in 2012 he exhibited at the Musée des Civilisations in Abidjan and in 2013 at the XVII edition of the Arkadi – Côte d’Ivoire festival.
The artist now works at Kool Studio in the Unesco World Heritage Site, Grand Bassam.