Mathilde Moraeau

Who is Mathilde Moraeau?

Mathilde Moreau is an Ivorian painter.

She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan where she obtained a DCSA.

From 2006, she is the Director of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan.

Between 2003-2005 she was a researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing on Chinese traditional painting.

In 1983-1994 she was a Professor of Fine Arts at Harris School of Modern in Abidjan. Then worked as a Professor of Painting at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan between 1994-2006.

She was one of the precursors of the Vohou-Vohou movement born at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts of Abidjan in the 1970s. Vohou.Vohou is the refusal of using very expensive painting materials. Other precursors were; Yusuf Bath, Kra N'Guessan, Théodore Koudougnon, Mathilde Moreau.