Claudie Titty Dimbeng, simply known as DIMBENG, was born in Abidjan in 1968.
After living in Austria, she moved to Paris in 1986 where she studied Interior Architecture at the École Supérieure des Arts Modernes. In 1999, after some professional experience, notably in the parisian boutique of Paloma Picasso, she decided to return to art by devoting herself fully to painting, and trained at mixed media with the Ivorian plastic artist Valérie N'dri Gervais (1970-2006), 1st Prize at the annual exhibition of the Art Students League of New York, and Prix du Merit at the annual "Manhattan Art International" competition.