BIOGRAPHY
Yaya Souffrant is a graphic designer, textile designer and artist, born in Montreal, Canada. This visual designer uses a wide variety of mediums through her practice, from hand drawing, to traditional and digital printing methods on textiles. She describes her creations as being strongly inspired by her roots: the Carribeans and Africa. The multidisciplinary artist behind Creative Sekence perceives patterns as a key to bringing life and character to objects and spaces, but also as a way to combe her multiple fields of interest (arts, design, interior styling and fashion).
ARTS & DESIGN
Bachelor of Arts, with a major in graphic design and a minor in business administration
Université du Québec en Outaouais (Gatineau, Canada)
Workshop : Textile patterns,
Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal (Montréal, Canada)
Certificate, Introduction to Interior decorating,
Collège Inter-Dec (Laval, Canada)
Workshop : Textile printing,
Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada)
Nest'in - Business Start Up : Creative and cultural industries
Les Offices jeunesses internationaux du Québec (LOJIQ), in partnership with Creative Wallonie Engine, the Bureau international jeunesse (BIJ), the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the Fondation OCP, the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique Benguerir (Maroc), the Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles à Rabat and the département de recherche scientifique et innovation de Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI)
(Benguerir, Maroc)
COMMUNICATION
Study Abroad Program : Communication for Public Relations & Advertising,
University of the Arts London : London College of Communication (London, United Kingdom)
EXHIBITIONS
2020
Art exhibition
Musée des arts caribéens et africains (MACA) in partnership with the Conseil des arts et lettres de Montréal,
(Montréal, Canada / Toronto, Canada)
2019
Art exhibition
Uncovered Art Canada (Montréal, Canada)
2018
Online exhibition
Blank Poster
2017
Poster exhibition
24 heures de science in collaboration with École multidisciplinaire de l'Image, Université du Québec en Outaouais
(Montréal, Canada)
CONTEST
2020
Creation of a visual identity
Musée des arts caribéens et africains (MACA) en partenariat avec le Conseil des arts et lettres de Montréal,
(Montréal, Canada / Toronto, Canada)
2018
Langues autochtones, poster design contest of the Société des designers graphiques du Québec
Société des designers graphiques du Québec in partnership with McCord Museum, le Centre de design de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Publicité Sauvage, Terres en vue et Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).
2018
Les Autres, creation of a visuel identity
Les Autres, Télé-Québec (Gatineau, Canada)
2017
Creation of a visual identity
École de surf de méditéranée (Sanary-sur-mer, France)
PUBLICATIONS
2020
Facing the change : Canada and the international decade for people of African descent - Part 1
Canadian Diversity, supported by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO
