His breakthrough was the exhibition "Les Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou" in Paris in 1989, which made him known internationally. In 2007, curator Robert Storr invited Samba to participate in the 52nd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, entitled “Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense”, and described by The Huffington Post as 'certainly "the exhibition" of this new Century'. He is now considered one of the most famous contemporary African artists working today, with his works held in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A large number of his paintings are also in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi. View artnet biography for Chéri Samba