Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh

  • Kwasi  Ohene-Ayeh
Painter
Principal country concerned : Column : Fine arts
Ghana

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (B. 1986) lives and works in Ghana. He received his BFA (Painting) degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, in 2009. His work has featured in exhibitions at the Nubuke Foundation gallery, Chale Wote Street Art Festival and the W.E.B Du Bois Center in Accra, Ghana. He participated in a group OFF exhibition during the 11th Dak'Art Biennale in Senegal titled "Dear Dakar," in 2014. 

Ohene-Ayeh is a member of Exit Frame – artists collective based in Accra whose public art projects, writing and publications raise pertinent questions on contemporary art practice with focus on Ghana. He has participated in Global Crit Clinic (Senegal and Accra) workshops – a professional development clinic based in the Fine Arts pedagogical studio critique facilitated by artist Kianga Ford.

He has done residencies in Dakar with CCA–Lagos (Àsìkò International Art School program) and with Lugar a Dudas in Santiago de Cali, Colombia - a grant awarded by Arts Collaboratory & Ministry of Culture of Colombia
 
 

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  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
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  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
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  • Africiné
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