Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1957, Ouattara Watts lives and works in New York City. Notable exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art (2021); Espace Paul Rebeyrolles, France (2019); Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan (2018); Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal (2018); Venice Biennale, Venice (2017); La Villette, Paris (2017); Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); and the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York (2002), among others. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art, Washington, D.C.; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; Collection Mohammed IV, Morocco; Fondation Dapper, Paris; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs; and University of California, Berkeley, among others.