CV
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts Curatorial Practice
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi
(present)
Bachelor of Arts Honours in History
University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town
(2024)
Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting
KNUST, Kumasi
(2019)
art-professional experience
Curator (volunteer)
Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA)—Ghana
(2021—)
Curatorial Assistant (freelance)
‘Simply Iconic! Vintage Images off the Beaten Path…’ (photo exhibition)
The Heritage Photo Lab – Goethe-Institut Ghana; Institut Français du Ghana; the German-French Cultural Fund; Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Nubuke Foundation and Nuku Studio; Ghana Museum of Science and Technology (MST), blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Savanna Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA Tamale)
Curator: Bernard Akoi-Jackson, PhD
(2021)
Gallery Guide (freelance)
‘WOLFGANG TILLMANS - FRAGILE’ (travelling retrospective)
Das Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Goethe-Institut Ghana; and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB)
(2021)
Assistant Curator
This No Be Art (Consultancy)
(2021)
Teaching Assistant
Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST
Ghana National Service Scheme
(2019-2020)
Gallery Guide (internship)
Orderly Disorderly (group exhibition)
blaxTARLINES KUMASI, GMMB
(2017)
awards / residencies / fellowships
Fellow
Building Beyond Fellowship Award
Creative Industries Fund—NL, Prince Claus Fund
(2025)
Museum Fellow
Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Museum Fellowship Programme
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), University of the Western Cape (UWC)
(2024)
Curatorial Fellow
Art Exchange: Moving Image (SSA)
LUX, Yinka Shonibare Foundation/G.A.S Foundation, British Council
(2023)
Awardee
Sender - Receiver Residency
The Or Foundation, British Council, Stimulerings Fonds Creatieve Industrie
(2022)
Participant
TURN2 LAB #1 NAIROBI
Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, Turn2 Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Goethe-Institut Kenya
(2022)
exhibitions / curatorial projects
‘[Ominous Music Playing]’ (tri-vocal exhibition)
Curating-artist
Abbey IT-A, Eric Gyamfi, kąrî’ kạchä seid’ōu, Kunstraum Lakeside
(upcoming)
‘Stomata: Dr. Mahashe’s Open Frames’ (solo)
Curator
Artist: Eric Gyamfi, FCA-Ghana
(2026)
‘Kɔηsεt Pāti - a moving image project’
Curator, Facilitator
FCA-Ghana, Mmofra Foundation, Art Exchange: Moving Image (SSA)
(2025)
‘INTERVENTION ‘ON SITE’’ (curatorial intervention)
Co-curator (2024 Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Fellows)
Zeitz MOCAA Atelier - Bernie Searle: ‘On Site’, Zeitz MOCAA staff, Chef Nathan Elixer
(2024)
MOCAA Art Club (art educational programme)
Co-Facilitator
Zeitz MOCAA, BMW Centre for Art Education, Lalela
(2024)
‘Out of Breath’ (solo)
Curatorial Interventions
Artist: Edward Prah, KNUST Impact Building
(2023)
‘MbWa’ (solo)
Co-curator & Curatorial Interventions
Artist: Godelive Kasangati Kabena, Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST
(2023)
Taking Up Spaces (multi-vocal conversational exhibition reviews)
Organiser, Moderator
Multi-vocal conversational exhibition reviews hosted on X (formerly Twitter)
(2023-)
‘Not Wrapped in Cellophane’ (solo)
Curator
Artist: Isaac Ato Jackson, Goethe-Institut, Studio 1990, blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Ghana MST
(2022)
‘Toys for Boys’ (solo)
Artist
Self-curated final-year exhibition, Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST
(2019)
writings / publications
INTERVENTION ‘ON SITE’ (zine)
Co-author: Text, Design
The 2024 Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Museum Fellows invite their colleagues from Front-of-House, Security, Retail, Facilities, and Art Ed to enjoy Berni Searle’s Atelier ‘On Site’ at the museum, outside their job descriptions.
(2024)
Stripping off Magnolia Renderings: Heritage at the MOCAA (honours thesis)
Author
An architectonic reading of Zeitz MOCAA as a confluence of heritage productions and inheritances within broader discourses of public history making in (South) Africa.
(2024)
Simply Iconic! Vintage Images off the Beaten Path (exhibition catalogue)
Contributing Author
Edited by Bernard Akoi-Jackson, PhD
(2024)
Vehicular Solutions and Shimmering Encounters (review)
Author
Jonathan Okoronkwo, ‘Some Things Stay Broken’ (2022), curated by Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson at Gallery 1957.
(2023)
Archival Manipulations, a Solemn Send-off (review)
Author
Daniel Quarshie, ‘HOME’ (2023), hosted by Compound House Gallery with curatorial processing by Robin Beth Riskin.
(2023)
CSI: Kumerica — Cognisant Agents of Fictioning (review)
Author
‘Odic Organisms’, curated by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh at Alliance Française, Kumasi.
(2023)
Talks & presentations
Moving Through Matter — metaphors, tactics, and imaginaries of space (symposium)
Presenter (Building Beyond Fellow)
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
(2025)
Kɔηsεt Pāti: Now that we’ve played round in circles… (conversation)
Presenter (Art and Thought Conversations)
FCA-Ghana, Accra
(2025)
INSIDER-OUTSIDER (symposium)
Curator, Participant/Presenter (2024 Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Museum Fellow)
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
(2025)
From Facing the Mirror to Intentional Conversations to Facing Time (presentation)
Presenter (Keynote, Vienna Art Week public programming)
Dorotheum, Vienna
(2024)