Henri Kouakou was born in 1997 in Toumodi, Henri Kouakou lives and works in Bingerville, graduated from the Technical Center of Applied Arts (CTAA) of Bingerville, he is passionate about painting and interior architecture. 

He then finds in painting an outlet through which he rediscovers himself. Its intrinsic relationship to well-being ... to his well-being ... inspires him. 

Between 2016 and 2023, he start to work as assistant of Yeanzi and he rubs shoulders with all the greatest contemporary artists of the Ivory Coast, he learns, exchanges with them his vision of well-being and ends up transcending by bringing together these passions for painting and architecture and his technique was born. 

He expresses through it the elements of his experience "Art, Youth and Development" as if to tell his story to everyone by highlighting the social realities of the "young" African Society challenging success by all means. 

He participated in some group shows in Abidjan and in 2023 his works will be exhibited in the group show « Inverted Safari » in St. Petersburg Russian Ethnographic Museum together with works by the most renowned contemporary African artists.