Moussa Tine

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Moussa Tine was born on 10 March 1953, in Ndiane, in the Thiès Region, Senegal.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHNUAAAAMAAJ |title=Cimaise |date=1996 |publisher=Galerie Arnaud |pages=49 |language=fr |via=Google Books}} His first job as a young boy was working as a ticket taker and announcer for car rapide (Senegalese mini buses).{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Allen F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4rpAAAAMAAJ |title=A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal |last2=Roberts |first2=Mary Nooter |last3=Armenian |first3=Gassia |last4=Guèye |first4=Ousmane |date=2003 |publisher=UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History |isbn=978-0-930741-93-8 |pages=202 |language=en |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web |title=Moussa Tine |url=https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/paradise/moussa.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418222918/http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/paradise/moussa.htm |archive-date=18 April 2017 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Passport to Paradise |publisher=Fowler Museum of Cultural History of the University of California at Los Angeles}} He started his pursuit of art in the 1970s by painting motifs and signs on the car rapide.

Tine furthered his arts education and graduated in 1978 from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts (Senegal).

His paintings have sculptural elements, and often contain discarded materials such as metal and wood.{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Eric |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdN5AAAAMAAJ |title=Culture and Customs of Senegal |date=30 April 2008 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-313-34036-9 |pages=57 |language=en |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web |last=Berns |first=Marla C. |date=21 May 2021 |title=Curator’s Choice: Altitude |url=https://fowler.ucla.edu/curators-choice-altitude/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724065334/https://fowler.ucla.edu/curators-choice-altitude/ |archive-date=24 July 2024 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Fowler Museum at UCLA |language=en-US}} He was a founding member of ANAPS (Association of Visual Artists of Senegal).{{Cite web |title=Personnes: Tine Moussa |url=https://africultures.com/personnes/?no=38124 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Africultures |language=fr-FR |issn=2271-1732}}

In 1992–1993, Tine's work was included in the traveling group exhibition of fifty Senegalese artists called, Dream, Myth, and Reality: Contemporary Art From Senegal, sponsored by the National Gallery of Senegal in Dakar, and the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C..{{Cite news |last=Patterson |first=Tom |date=1993-10-10 |title=African works give contemporary perspective |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-african-works-giv/161294311/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=The Charlotte Observer |pages=93}} In 2014, Tine's work was exhibited at the Tafeta in London, through the Mille Arts Foundation with part of the sales going to the Red Cross Ebola Outbreak Appeal.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-12-02 |title=Mille Arts Foundation brings Africa to London this winter in an exhibition by contemporary African artist Moussa Tine |url=https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/move-to/south-africans-abroad/mille-arts-foundation-brings-africa-to-london-this-winter-in-an-exhibition-by-contemporary-african-artist-moussa-tine/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=The South African |language=en-ZA}}

• 1992, Peoples and Cultures of Senegal, group exhibition, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Montpelier, Hanover County, Virginia, United States; seven Senegalese artists exhibited, included Moussa Tine, Mamadou Fall Dabo, Viyé Diba, and Ibrahima Kébé{{Cite news |date=1992-05-21 |title=A small glimpse at the art of Senegal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-a-small-glimpse-at-the/161294253/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=The Baltimore Sun |pages=64 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• 1993, Dream, Myth, and Reality: Contemporary Art From Senegal, traveling group exhibition, Afro-American Cultural Center (now the Harvey B. Gantt Center), Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• 1994, Dream, Myth, and Reality: Contemporary Art From Senegal, traveling group exhibition, Marsh Gallery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States; fifty Senegalese artists exhibited, included Moussa Tine, Mor Gueye, El Hadji Mansour Ciss, Tafsir Momar Gueye, Boubacar Coulibaly, and Mouhamadou Mbaye dit Zulu (or Mouhamadou Mbaye){{Cite news |date=September 28, 1994 |title=Spiritual and cultural ideals reflected in Senegalese art |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-times-dispatch-spiritual-and-cu/161294148/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |pages=31 |via=Newspapers.com}}

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