page_title: Alfred Amadu Conteh
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Amadu Conteh / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Sculpture
context_page_description: Alfred Amadu Conteh is an American sculptor, painter and mixed-media artist.
context_section_description: Alfred Amadu Conteh was born in 1975 in Fort Valley, Georgia. He attended Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he received a BFA. He received his MFA from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. His mother is African American and his father is from Sierra Leone, West Africa. Many of his works examine his personal identity through his parents' experiences and cultural differences. Along with paintings, Conteh creates organic contemporary sculpture that uses symbology to express his narratives of the African American southern experience."
  Conteh uses a variety of media as a vehicle to provoke thought that will result in change."
caption: Sink by Alfred Amadu Conteh
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