EDUCATION
ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne, Master in art direction with mention.
School of Visual Arts in New York, PhotoGlobal Program, Postgrad in photography.
ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne
Bachelor of arts with mention excellent in visual communication,
major in photography.
SOLO SHOWS
Tropicadelic, La Ferme des Tilleuls (CH)
Vahine, Boogie Wall, London (UK)
Hangar, Bruxelles (BE)
Namsa Leuba, Incamera, Paris (FR)
Namsa Leuba, Art Twenty One, Lagos (NG)
Mmabatho, University of Fribourg (CH)
SELECTED COLLECTIVE SHOWS
Dior Cruise, FÉMININ PLURIEL, Dior Shanghai (CN)
The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Los Angeles (US)
In the Black Fantastic, SouthBank Centre, London (UK)
Paris Photo Fair (FR)
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (UK)
Photo London (UK)
Foam Talent, Gallery Mercatorplein, Amsterdam (NL)
The Best of LensCulture: Volume 2, The Voies Off Festival, Arles (FR)
Africa State of Mind, The Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco (US)
The female gaze through the prism of the female photographer’s eye, the Collectors Lounge La prairie at Art Basel in Basel (CH)
Art Paris, Art Twenty One (FR)
Photo Vogue Festival - Milano (IT)
Paris Photo, Incamera, Ya Kala Ben & Kingdom of Mountain (FR)
Daegu photo biennale, Daegu (KR)
Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design - Vitra, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (SP)
Tokyo international photography festival (JP)
Photo Quai - Quai Branly Museum Paris (FR)
APhF:12 Athens Photo Festival, Athens (GR)
Stranger in the Village, Aargauer Kunsthaus (CH)
AWARDS
LensCulture Exposure
Foam Talent - Young artists shaping the future of photography (NL)
PDN's 2013 Photo Annual Award Winners - PDN Photo Annual (US)
Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers (US)
1st prize emotion series, Photo Annual Awards (CZ)
Hyères PhotoGlobal Prize, received a scholarship to study one year in the PhotoGlobal Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York (US) Cap Prize the contemporary african photography prize (CH)
Prix ECAL, awarded to a graduate student unit photography has done an excellent dissertation
Prix BCV, to reward a student of the unity of photography who has made the overall quality of his work
Prix Elinchrom, awarded to a graduate student unit photography has done an excellent dissertation
1st prize Planche(s) contact festival de photographie de Deauville 3rd prize video clip of Hotel Beau-Rivage
3rd prize web site for CIFOM
Mention for the poster project «Sapin», l’art nouveau
NOMINATIONS
Prix Pictet "Disorder"
Foam Paul Huf Award
Prix Pictet "Fire"
BIBLIOGRAPHY
In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun, Thames & Hudson
Crossed Looks, Monography Namsa LEUBA,
ed. Damiani/ Hasley institute
BODY, Nathalie Herschdorfer, ed. Thames & Hudson book, p. 212
Africa State of Mind , Ekow Shun, ed. Thames & Hudson
The New Black Vanguard, Antwaun Sargent, ed. Aperture book,
p. 133-150
The Best of LensCulture, Volume 2
Africa Modern, Creating the contemporary art of continent,
Ekow Eshun
Le métier de photographe en Afrique, 10 ans d'Afrique in visu, Clémentine de la Feronnière
Catalogue, Athens photo festival, Life Tracks, August, p. 98-99
Stories of Johannesburg's Highrises, Fourthwall Books, Hatje Cantz, p.137-142
Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait, Romke Hoogwaerts, Mosslee & ICP Museum, p. 44, 119
Colour, Christine Davis & Scott Lyall, Public 51, p. 196-197
Sceno Graphics, Sandu, Wang Shaoqiang, p.228 -229
700kg, Maad ecal and TONK - Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Ecal
The Art of Fashion Photography, Prestel, p. 28-33
Haute Africa, People photography fashion, Lannoo, p. 40- 45
Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, p. 6, 32, 34
Ecal photography, by Hatje Cantz, p.248-249
FETICHISM IN FASHION, by Lidewij Edelkoort, M°BA 2013 exhibition's book featuring namsa leuba's work, p.68-71
It's Nice That Annual, December 2012, p.200
Planche(s) contact Festival de photographie de Deauville, édition 2010-2011, p.48-51, 64-65 Hors-Champs, Eclats du patrimoine culturel immatériel, MEN, p. 98-101
Proud south, Lidewij Edelkoort, Lili Tedde & Mariola Lopez Marino, p.191-1997