Mamadou-Abou Sarr is the founder and President of V-Square Quantitative Management, a global asset management firm headquartered in Chicago, and a leader in the field of sustainable investing and financial innovation. He is actively involved in a number of philanthropic and civic activities around the world including a member of the Board of Trustees at the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Museum Council at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. He is also a French Foreign Trade Advisor, appointed by decree of the Prime Minister of France. Mamadou and his wife Catherine, established The SARR Collection; a collection with a large focus on contemporary photography that also includes painting and sculpture by established and emerging artists. The collection illustrates the Sarrs’ belief in supporting and empowering artists in the early stages of their practices. The collection also gives an annual award to three students from Les Beaux-Arts Paris in recognition for excellence in a body of artistic work.
Mamadou-Abou Sarr
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”