Coumba Samba

Arcadia Missa is pleased to present Coumba Samba's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Big Nation, presenting a new series of works based on chevron patterns commonly found on the backs of police vehicles. Continuing her ongoing exploration of global power structures, Samba considers how historical structures of domination persist in localised forms of oppression, and how protest emerges in response to them.

Coumba Samba (b. 2000, New York, US) lives and works in New York, US. Selected solo exhibitions include Stars and Stripes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2026); 1100-651 Lisboa, Maumaus Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, PT (2025); The National Expo, ETH, Zurich, CH (2025); Wild Wild Wall, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH (2025); deutschland, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (2025); Dress Code, empire, New York, US (2024); Red Gas, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2024); Capital, Cell Project Space, London, UK (2024); and Couture, Galerina, London, UK (2023) among others.