Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  1. 2026Sanlé Sory, The Colour YearsThe Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  2. Sanlé Sory, Studio Volta PhotoSakana Gallery, San Sebastián, Spain
  3. Sanlé Sory: In Fine StyleDavid Hill Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  4. 2025Sanlé SoryGalerie Arrêt sur Image, Bordeaux, France
  5. 2024Bobo Photo 1970Obsolete Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
  6. 2022Volta PhotosI-Lab Design, Geneva, Switzerland
  7. 2021Sanlé Sory: Volta PhotoJackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  8. Jour et nuitGalerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  9. 2020Bobo YéyéChâteau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
  10. Works – Sanlé SoryM+B Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
  11. 2019Sanlé Sory: Volta PhotoYossi Milo Gallery, 1-54, Marrakech, Morocco
  12. Peuple de la nuitA.Galerie, Paris, France
  13. Volta PhotoGalerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  14. Sanlé Sory: Volta PhotoWeinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  15. 2018Sanlé Sory: Volta PhotoYossi Milo Gallery, New York, United States
  16. Volta Photo: Starring Sanlé Sory and the Good People of Bobo-Dioulasso in the Small but Musically Mighty African Country of Burkina FasoArt Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States
  17. Studio Volta, Sory SanléVieille Église de Mérignac, France
  18. 2017Volta PhotoDavid Hill Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  19. 2013Sanlé SoryInstitut français de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  20. Sanlé SoryInstitut français de Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Group exhibitions

  1. 2026Ideas of AfricaMoMA, New York, United States
  2. Africa FashionMusée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
  3. Project a Black Planet, The Art and Culture of AfricaBarbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
  4. 24th DongGang International Photo FestivalSeoul, South Korea
  5. 2025Project a Black Planet, The Art and Culture of AfricaArt Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States
  6. Project a Black Planet, The Art and Culture of AfricaMACBA, Barcelona, Spain
  7. 2024Hot Flux, Modern and Contemporary Photography in Taiwan and AfricaTainan Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  8. Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia KeysBrooklyn Museum, New York, United States
  9. Auto ExposureDavid Hill Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  10. 2023Meeting at the VoltaDavid Hill Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  11. Soul of AfricaGalerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  12. Intersections of African YouthGalerie Gomis, Brussels, Belgium
  13. 2022Africa FashionV&A Museum, London, United Kingdom
  14. 2021Têtes-à-TêtesDavid Hill Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  15. 2019KubatanaVestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo, Norway
  16. Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You YesterdayZeitz MOCAA Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
  17. 2018The MatterDak’Art Biennale Off, Dakar, Senegal
  18. 2017AutophotoFondation Cartier, Paris, France
  19. 2015African RecordsFondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin
  20. Folk Art AfricainFRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France