Kre M'Baye

**Kre M’Baye**, bɛ ni lahi booni so Amadou (or Armedy) Kre M’Baye (25 April 1949 – 21 October 2014), o daa nyɛla Senegale nuuni tuunbaŋda.

## Biɛhigu mini tuma
Bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Andy Keve din be Dakar, Senegal, Anashaara goli April 25, 1949. Bɛ daa ti o yu'paa “Kere” bee “Kre” hali sahashɛli o ni daa be pramari shikuru o daa mali la choki bɔmdi pari dikpuna zuɣu (*craie* in French). Tum yuunj 1969 o nyɛla ŋun niŋdi zaɣa ni nuuni tuunbaŋdiba kamani Ibou Diouf, Mamadou Niang, Seidou Barry, Mor Faye (father of Ousmane Faye) ni Art College professor Pierre Lods.

Yuuni 1974 o daa nyɛla bi'bɛhi toondana shinii yuli booni *Baks (Yamba) puuni*,  Momar Thiam n daa produsi li, amaa o che kpɛrigu ka kpaŋsi o nuuni tuunbaŋsi. O tuuli nuuni tuunbaŋsim yuuni 1976 din daa niŋ Dynamique Museum, Dakar nyɛla niriba ni daa ti shɛli zaɣa, o peentibu "The Messenger" nyɛla zuɣulana Léopold Sédar Senghor ni daa niŋ nintiɣili ni shɛli.

## Exhibitions
* 1976 First exhibit to the 4th Senegalese painters and visual arts show din be Dynamique Museum zaŋ ti Dakar.
* 1983 New Expressions din be Lorient in France
* 1985 French Cultural Center din Dakar
* 1985 IFA Gallery din be Bonn, Germany
* 1987 Senegalese painters & visual artists exhibition – received Prize of the Head of State
* 1987 Stadfische Gallery in Wendlinger, Germany
* 1988 American Cultural Center of Dakar at the National Gallery – Kre's *Totem du Silence* was the only painting selected to be put to auction
* 1990 L’Arche de la Defense in Paris, France
* 1995 Cape Verde Islands – several traveling exhibitions
* 1996 Contemporary Art Exhibition of Dammarie-les-Lys in France – won the City Prize
* 1996 Selected to the Dak’Art 1996 Biennale
* 1998  Mil Arte, 98 Mill Lane (West Hampstead), London, England, April - May
* 1999 Kenkeleba Gallery in New York City, U.S.A.
* Since 1999, Permanent exposition at the Antenna Gallery, Félix Faure street, Dakar
* 2002  Arts Plastiques Exposition: Dakar - Dakart at Aude Minart in Paris, France, April 30 – May 5
* 2005  April 1–14, National Gallery of Art - Sponsored by the American Cultural Center, National Museum of African Art, Washington. Three exhibitions of artists: Souleye Keita, Jacob Yacouba, and Amadou Kré M'Baye
* 2005  St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York City, U.S. Participated in Plexus International's presentation *Erosions and Renaissance, Act IV* 12/10/05
* 2006  Senegalese Contemporary Art Exhibit: The Jokko Bar-Expo - 5 Rue Elzévir Paris, France (June – July)
* 2007  Fine Arts Exhibition at Marcel Rozier's gallery in Bois-le-Roi, May 12–20
* 2008  Black Visibility: Contemporary African Art Exhibition March 19 - April 5 at the Conservatoire des Arts, 1, parvis sources 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

## Pina
* 1987 Prize of the Head of State of Senegal
* 1996 City Prize of Dammarie-les-Lys, France
* 1999 Awarded L'Ordre National du Lion by Abdou Diouf, President of the Republic of Senegal

## Luɣ'shɛŋa di ni yina
* N’Gone’ Fall & Jean Loup Pivin, *An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century*, D.A.P./Editions Revue Noire, June 2, 1002. , .
* *The Courier: Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-European Union*, Commission of the European Communities, 1991 (original from the University of Virginia).
* Elizabeth Harney, "The Ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile", *African Arts*, Autumn 2002.
* Jean-Arsène Yao, "El Arte Africano Contemporaneo Existe", Latinamericalandya Website.
* Elizabeth Harney, *In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995*, Duke University Press, 2004. , .
* *La Presse* (Tunisia), October 30, 1974.
* Thomas Riggs, *St. James Guide to Black Artists*, St. James Press, 1997 (original from the University of Michigan). , .
* Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson & Sandy Naime, *Thinking About Exhibitions*, Routledge, May 13, 1996. , .
* Joanna Grabski, "Trajectoires: Art Contemporain du Senegal", *African Arts*, Spring 2008.

## Kundivihira

## External links
* Krembaye.com