Iriée Zamblé (b. 1995) is a visual artist working across painting, drawing and collage. Her practice engages with how community, heritage, and identity are shaped within the West African diaspora and across global contexts. Zamblé explores the intersection of memory and imagination by drawing on personal archives and found imagery, examining how individual and collective narratives take shape and are passed on over time.

Her recent body of work, Generational Muscle Memory, builds on this research by examining the invisible ways knowledge is carried through generations; embedded in the body, gestures, and instincts. Combining family archives with photographs taken during her travels through West-Africa and its diaspora, Zamblé reworks her images through painterly and graphic interventions. Creating layered compositions that reflect on cultural continuity and inherited experience.

In 2022, Zamblé was awarded the Royal Award for Modern Painting and completed a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2023, supported by the Mondriaan Fund. Her work is held in the collections of the Rembrandt House Museum, the Frans Hals Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, among others. She has exhibited internationally at institutions and galleries including the Saatchi Gallery (London), Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp), and Art Rotterdam.

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Iriée Zamblé

Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

2023

by Gian Levi Schrouff