Kassou Seydou (b. 1971, Ziguinchor, Senegal) is a contemporary painter who currently lives and works in Keur Massar, Senegal.

In 2001, Kassou graduated from l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts (National School of Fine Art) in Dakar. After his studies, he participated in a two-year residency in Joal-Fadiouth (the place of birth of Léopold Sedar Senghor), organized by the association ‘‘Portes et passages du retour’’.

Kassou creates through the lens of observation and storytelling. On his journey between his birthplace and current home, he experienced a spiritual and cultural reawakening. This journey of reflection and awareness helped him to understand the complexities of these environments and allegorically intersect the past and future, fable and truth, through his paintings. The spiral pattern repeated in his works, figures, colors, symbols, and themes of humanity, spirituality, and the socio-political, blend a serious and playful nature to the stories he conveys of Africa.

Kassou has been exhibited in several solo shows, such as 'Mbindoum kaw gue' at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury in 2019 in Dakar, Senegal, and the exhibition 'FO-RE' as part of the Dakar Biennale OFF in 2018. Galerie Cécile Fakhoury organized his first solo show in Ivory Coast, 'Kings of the New Cities' in 2017. His work has also been exhibited in various group shows, such as 'Voyage à Dakar' at the Galerie Médina in Bamako in collaboration with the Eiffage Foundation and 'En quête de sens' at the Dance Hall as part of the Dakar Biennale OFF program in 2016. His engravings were exhibited at Raw Material Company in Dakar, Senegal, in 2013 for the exhibition 'De Kawral à Sargal.' In 2010, Kassou Seydou was part of the show Act3 at the Boribana Museum of Contemporary Art of Dakar, Senegal. The following year, he participated in the exhibition Ku Guestu Guiss at the Eiffage Foundation in 2009 in Dakar.

Kassou Seydou also participated in various residencies and preceding exhibitions, notably in 2017 at Fondation Blachère in La Somone, Senegal, and in 2015 at the French Alliance in Ziguinchor, Senegal. In 2009, he was laureate of the Wapi Prize (Word and Pictures) of the British Council, where his work was displayed in 2012 and 2014.