Amadou Camara Gueye’s work is directly inspired by urban life. Youth culture, places like bars, and working-class neighborhoods all dominate his artistic universe. Through his work, he seeks to "bring light to everything dark in life... I tell the story of society's ills, so I am a storyteller, a street poet who lives solely through his art."

Amadou Camara Gueye was born on August 15, 1968, in Bignona, Senegal. He lives and works in Dakar, in the working-class neighborhood of Pikine, a place that features prominently in his paintings.

As art critic S. Sankalé once wrote, “Amadou Camara Gueye’s work is a stroll through the city, through those neighborhoods where people live only because they have no better option, where deep hardship and fleeting joys, ugliness and dizziness, violence and tenderness all coexist in an improbable kaleidoscope.”

Through his artistic approach, Camara Gueye aims to “shed light on everything dark in life... I tell the story of society's ills, so I am a storyteller, a street poet who lives solely through his art.” He often works on large-scale pieces with powerful compositions, about which he says: “I approach each work spontaneously, the lines emerge freely. After that, it's all a matter of rebalancing.”

A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Dakar in 1997, he has exhibited nationally since 1993 and internationally since 2000.