Atta Kwami

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atta Kwami
Born1956 (age 64–65)
Accra, Ghana
NationalityGhanaian
Alma materKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Atta Kwami (born 1956) is a Ghanaian painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator. He was born in 1956 in Accra. He was educated and has taught at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and in the United Kingdom. He creates works that improvise form and colour and are speak to uniquely Ghanaian architecture and African strip-woven textiles, including those of the Kente, the Ewe and Asante of Ghana.

He studied, and later taught, at the KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana. In 2007 he received a PhD in art history at the Open University for his work for contemporary Ghanaian artists, now published as 'Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007: An African Modernism'. (Hurst & Company, 2013).[1]

Career[]

In 2021, Kwami won the Maria Lassnig Prize from the Maria Lassnig Foundation in Vienna and the Serpentine Galleries in the UK.[2]

Between 14th – 26th August 2011, Kwami undertook the Howard Kestenbaum/Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA.

Kwami won the Janet L. Stanley Travel Award to attend the Fifteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art entitled 'Africa and its Diasporas in the Market Place: Cultural Resources and the Global Economy' at the University of California, Los Angeles from 23rd to 26th March 2011.[3]

Kwami was the Artist in Residence, University of Michigan, Graduate School of Art & Design in January 2011.[4]

The artist also undertook the Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship, (UCLA) at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC from 1st March - 31st May 2010.

Kwami was awarded the title of 1st Thoyer Distinguished Visiting Scholar in New York University, New York from 30th September - 8th October 2008.[5]

Exhibitions[]

Kwami's work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,[6] National Museum of African Art,[7] National Museum of Ghana, National Museum of Kenya, Victoria and Albert Museum,[8] the World Museum,[9] and the British Museum.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Atta Kwami - Creative Folkestone". www.creativefolkestone.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  2. ^ "Atta Kwami Public Art Commission: Maria Lassnig Foundation x Serpentine Galleries". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  3. ^ Arts Council of the African Studies Association (March 2011). "Fifteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art" (PDF). ACASA Online. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  4. ^ "Afro Combs". www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  5. ^ "Afro Combs". www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  6. ^ "Atta Kwami | A suite of five linocuts individually titled: Kpong, Kpetoe, Vane, Tsito, Juapong | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  7. ^ "Collections | National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  8. ^ "Mask | Kwami, Atta | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  9. ^ "George Atta Kwami". www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  10. ^ "Term details". British Museum. Retrieved 2018-04-18.

External links[]

Retrieved from ""