Dior Thiam is a multidisciplinary artist. Throughout broadly different mediums, she explores untold histories and the relation between beauty and violence. 
Drawing inspiration from historical events and occurrences, from poetry, prose and personal experiences, her work raises questions around memory, remembrance and commemoration. 

Throughout a process-based approach of layering, interweaving, fragmenting, collecting and reassembling she extracts and re/arranges seemingly disparate pieces of research.
She plays with notions of voyeurism, desire, nostalgia and sentimentality, constantly nudging the viewer to position themselves anew to what and how they are seeing. 

Among others, her work has been showcased in a number of international group exhibitions and publications, including shows at the International Exhibition of the Dakar Biennale, Galérie Cécile Fakhoury in Abidjan, Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg and the African Diaspora Art Museum in Atlanta as well as in multiple collaborations with Savvy Contemporary Berlin and Archive Sites/Books. She has won the BBA Artist Prize 2023, the Schulz-Stübner-Prize for Painting 2024 and the 2024 ECOWAS Integration Prize for the Best Artistic Creator in West Africa.
Her work will be presented the African Biennale for Photography, Rencontres de Bamako this year. She is currently part of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt.

Dior lives and works between Berlin and Dakar.