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Aïda Touré is aGaboneseartist,Sufipoet, painter, and composer.
Touré was born inGabon to a Gabonese mother and aMalian father, who was alsoMuslim. She later attended high school inFrance, where she generated a distinct interest across the arts. In 1995, she moved toNew York City to study music.[1] During this creative journey, she felt pulled toward the practice ofIslam which was to have a profound impact on the nature of her creations. Sufism, the inner dimension of Islam, inspired her to produce poetic works of a spiritual nature.
She released her first collection of Sufi poetry entitledUnmanifest Poems in 2000. In 2001, she publishedThe Sublime Sphere. This was followed up in 2003 by another collection of poems,Nocturnal Light. In 2005, Touré professed to be overcome with images of ineffable beauty. This prompted her to take up painting to convert the spirituality in her poems into a visual landscape of beauty. She has referred to this artwork asVisual Sufi Poetry.
Touré exhibited her artwork in many of the major cities throughout theUnited States and back in her native Gabon. She has appeared in magazines internationally. Most of her paintings are owned privately, mainly in the US, France, Gabon, andMali.
In February 2015, Touré had her second exhibition in New York titled "Luminous Dark Matter"[2] to celebrate Black History month
In 2017 she was selected by OkayAfrica as a woman to watch.[3]
In 2018, she published a new poetry book titled "Cosmicity"[4]
In September 2021 she launched her own NFT portfolio and started selling her artworks as NFTs[5]
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