Born and raised in Abidjan in a large Akan Agni‑bona and Malinké family, Nuits Balnéaires is an Ivorian multidisciplinary visual artist, art director, and poet based in Grand‑Bassam. Deeply rooted in the traditions, culture, and spirituality of these peoples, his work creates a parallel space‑time beyond geographical constraints while embracing the universality of oceans and the way they connect worlds. Nuits Balnéaires maintains a powerful relationship with the energy of the Gulf of Guinea and its landscape, which explains the omnipresence of water in his photographic, cinematographic, and poetic practice. Haunted by the duality between life and death and the possibilities of communication between these two states, his works convey an euphoric tranquility, both classical and contemporary through their references to the spiritual and the mundane.

His recent series, The Power of Alliances, which earned him a full spread in The Guardian, was developed during a one-year visual journalism fellowship with the World Press Photo Foundation and Tony’s Chocolonely Foundation. The proximity that Grand-Bassam offers to the communities of artisans has provided him with a perfect setting to multiply experiments and expand his rhizomatic practice.

Nuits Balnéaires has exhibited at ArtXLagos, 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair in Paris (with Christie’s), FNB Art Johannesburg, and in multiple exhibitions in Côte d’Ivoire, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, and Australia. His photographs and films have been featured in Ocula, New York Times, Quartz, Vogue, i-D, The Guardian, ELLE, Nataal, BubblegumClub, GIDA Journal, Dry, OkayAfrica, Swinging Africa, Contemporary And, REPUBLIK, Le Temps, and Aperture.

He has worked on numerous campaigns, artworks commissions, and established collaborations with International Finance Corporation, Accor Hotels, Ethical Fashion Initiative, Universal Music, Tony’s Chocolonely, VISA, Birimian Ventures, Gallery Cécile Fakhoury, Lagos Fashion Week, Loza Maléombho, Iamisigo, This Is Us, Ohiri, Uni Form, and Olooh.

In May 2022, Nuits Balnéaires gave his first lecture at the Geneva University of Art and Design. In November 2022, he was celebrated in NATIVE & GUAP MAG list of the 12 West African talents “shaking up their industries.”

In 2025, he was selected as a laureate of Inspiration Bénin - Au Cœur des Mondes Africains, a major residency program initiated by the Institut Français du Bénin and implemented in partnership with MansA - Maison des Mondes Africains.

Eboro (2025) is a body of works conceived as part of Latitudes, the international program of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès supporting new, creative photography. Nuits Balnéaires was appointed laureate of the second edition of Latitudes after being selected by a jury of representatives from the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and its partner institutions, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and the International Center of Photography (ICP). For this project, he develops a transgenerational approach to explore the links between genetic, spiritual, and cultural heritage, invoking familial and mythological figures in a dense and contemplative narrative, imbued with luminous melancholy and an active nostalgia close to saudade.

Direct all enquires to the following; mail@nuitsbalneaires.com