Graduated in 1996 from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Dakar.

The theme of Soly Cissé 's paintings is repeatedly the duality between tradition and modernity. He uses arrows to separate Good from Evil, and vertical and horizontal lines to picture life and death and also to contrast colors. Soly Cisse shows an extreme fury of the individuum towards a world left to its own.

Soly 's pictures also show the isolated human, left alone to himself as a shadow of his true being.

Soly Cissé sees himself as a person of his epoch who tries to reach people's consciences to show the grief and the misery of the society.