Ouattara Watts (born 1957) is an American artist. He was born in Ivory Coast and now lives in the United States. He studied at l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. In Paris, he meets Jean-Michel Basquiat at an exhibition opening in January 1988. Basquiat is impressed by Watts’s paintings and convinces him to move to New York City. They had a very short but important collaboration. In the documentary called “Basquiat, Une Vie”, we see Watts in his studio, working and talking about Basquiat. Watts is an internationally recognized for painting and drawing. Watts is a jazz enthusiast, who merged music and art in paintings and collages by using everyday materials.
