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Pascal kenfack

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Pascal Kenfack (born 1950, Dschang, Cameroon) is a painter and sculptor of international renown. Passionately committed to the revival of art living in Cameroon, he took action by creating a hybrid of a museum and a school in Yaoundé, already a workshop for learning and creation. Interested in art at an early age, Pascal Kenfack decided to begin his artistic training at the end of which he obtained in 1975 the degree in History of Art from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Paris. Then he continued his studies for a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Paris VIII ten years later. Today, he is credited with more than 600 paintings and sculptures, most of which have been exhibited around the world: Cameroon, Senegal, Gabon, Cuba, France, Denmark, South Korea, and Canada. His commitment to young people is particularly illustrated by art training courses that he animates since 1992 in Yaoundé as part of the project “Culture de quartier” (District’s culture). Between 1987 and 2005, he was Research Fellow in History of Art at the Institute of Human Science in Yaoundé and lecturer at the University of Yaoundé I in the Department of Art and Archaeology. He has also taught at the Institute of Artistic Education in Mbalmayo, then at the Institute of Fine Arts in Foumban. Today, there are more than 200 students he trained in painting, sculpture and art history.

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Exhibitions — Container: Art Across Oceans, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996. Dak’Art 1992, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, 1992. Impression de Corée, City Hall, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1989. Arts Olympiad, Seoul, South Korea, 1988. 2nd Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, 1986. Grand Palais, Paris, France, 1982.

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