François Iloki

François Iloki belongs to the first generation of artists of the Poto-Poto school, where he studied from 1951. From 1955 he took part in numerous exhibitions, and in 1970 he represented the People’s Republic of the Congo at the festival of African art in Algiers. In 1991 he was one of the central artists of the major exhibition Congo–Zaire: Brazzaville and Kinshasa at the Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie in Paris. His son Jacques Iloki (born 1962) also became an artist and spent six years at the Moscow Academic Art College on a state scholarship.