Mame-Diarra Niang was born in 1982, in Lyon, France and lives in Paris. She is a self-taught artist and photographer.

Her work explores the concept of the ‘plasticity of territory’. Remember to Forget, Niang’s first institutional solo show in France, takes place at Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson, Paris (2024). Previous solo shows include Self as a Forgotten Monument, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (2023); Sama Guent Guii, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2022); The Citadel: a trilogy | Call me when you get there at Galeria Lume, São Paulo (2021); Léthé, as part of Rhe, at Stevenson Amsterdam (2021) and Call Me When You Get There, Cape Town (2020); Black Hole, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2017), and At the Wall, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2014).

She has taken part in group exhibitions including Glitch: The Art of Interference, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2023); UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2023); Thinking Historically in the Present, the 15th Sharjah Biennale, UAE (2023); Currency, the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2022); DAK'ART OFF, 14th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2022); Shifting Dialogues: Photography from The Walther Collection, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2022); The Art of Living, Fotofestival Naarden, the Netherlands (2021); Movin'Grounds, 38CC, Delft, the Netherlands (2020); Pictures from Another Wall, De Pont Museum, the Netherlands (2020); Travesías atlánticas, the 4th Montevideo Biennial (2019); Recent Histories / Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection at Huis Marseille, the Netherlands (2018); Affective Affinities, the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo (2018); Strange Attractors, a curatorial publication project launched at the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018); O Triângulo Atlântico, the 11th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018); Deconstructed Spaces, Surveyed Memories at the 11th Rencontres de Bamako (2017); Recent Histories - New African Photography at the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm, Germany (2017); the 12th Dakar Biennale (2016); Armory Focus: African Perspectives – Spotlighting Artistic Practices of Global Contemporaries at The Armory Show, New York (2016); The Lay of the Land: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Project Space, New York (2015); Nine Artists at Stevenson, Cape Town (2015); 11th  Dakar Biennale in 2014, and Le Piéton de Dakar at the Institut Français of Dakar in 2013.

Niang's first artist book, The Citadel: a trilogy, was released in 2022 by Mack Publishers as a three-volume edition, articulating her 'personal but analytic relationship with place'.

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