Patrick-Joël was born in 1985 in Douala, Cameroon. After a scientific training at the St-Jean Baptiste College in Bangangté, and a brief stay at the universities of Dschang (maths/ informatics) and Yaoundé I (Plastic Arts), he finally decided to devote himself to art. Patrick-Joël leaves for Italy where he studies painting and later obtains a scholarship to access the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. There, he obtains a Bachelor’s degree in painting in 2013 and later in 2016 a Master’s degree in Visual Arts with a dissertation on “Zen in art”. At the end of his academic years, Patrick-Joël decides to stay in Bologna. As a relentless researcher, he continued his journey through numerous collaborations between Africa and Italy, through the coming together of intercultural workshops with schools and associations in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Recently, he participated in the exhibition “I IS ANOTHER BE THE OTHER” by Simon Njami at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome and at the 2018 Dakar Biennal. Furthermore, he participated in Manifesta 12 in the framework of the “Collateral project Art and Globalization”, curated by Rikke Jorgensen, Valentina G. Levy and Nadine Bilong.
Represented by OH GALLERY.