found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Seye, Younouss; painter, actress; born 1940 in Saint-Louis, Senegal; trained as a stenographer, self-taught as a visual artist and actor; participated in Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, Dakar (1966) and in First Pan-African Cultural Festival, Algiers (1969); won a grant from UNESCO to support her training residency in Ivory Coast; had a solo exhibition in Hôtel Ivoire (1972), participated in Senegalese Art Today opened in Paris at the Grand Palais (1974), and at the festival of arts and culture called FESTAC, Lagos (1977); public commissions for the Ethiopian offices of Organization of African Unity and Dakar's Yoff Airport; cofounded Le Collectif Artistes Plasticiens, (2003); played key roles in Xala (1974) and Faat Kine, (2004))
