Aimé Mpane was born 1968 into a family of artists in Kinshasa, Congo. He graduated in Sculpture from the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa in 1990 and Ecole National Superieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, Bruxelles, Belgium in 2000, He presently teaches Sculpture at the Academie International d’Ete de Wallonie, Libramont, Belgium and as a Visiting Professor at the Academie des Beaux-Art in Kinshasa. Exhibitions include “DAK’ART” Bienniale de Dakar, Senegal, 2006, for which he was awarded the Jean Paul Blachére Foundation’s Critics Prize; Havana Biennial 2003; Africa for Africa, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, 2003; Musee de Katanga, Lubumbashi, Congo, 2002; Africa Sana, Quai Antoine Ier, Monaco 2001; and Centre Cultural Français, Kinshasa, 1991.
