Kiki Bokassa

 Kiki Bokassa is an autodidact conceptual artist most renowned for her work in the figurative art genre tailored to distinctive environments in a constant effort to highlight the conditions of less fortunate actors in society.Kiki was born in Paris in 1975 and was raised in Lebanon during the civil war. She held numerous thematic exhibitions in Beirut and overseas during the past years. Her latest work includes an upcoming collective exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre (Louvre Museum) in Paris. Since her first exhibition during the late 1990’s, her paintings have been received with great interest from experts and are currently part of private collectors’ collections from the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

 Kiki is also a writer and an active member in society who is directly involved in various humanitarian causes to which she devotes much of her time along being the acting president of VAPA association who’s main mission is promoting the use of art for positive social change. 

In April 2009 Kiki presented 72 hrs in Beirut; an immersive art marathon in which she painted for 72 hours non-stop for peace in self-imposed incarceration. Although, the daunting task made her reach the limit of what is humanly possible, she persisted in achieving her objective and 72 hrs went on to become a truly universal and inspirational artistic happening that got the attention of more than 30 international media outlets and was diffused in not less than 74 countries.