Atta Kwami

Atta Kwami (14 September 1956 – 6 October 2021)Basciano, Oliver (15 October 2021). "Atta Kwami obituary". The Guardian. na he be a Ghanaian painter, printmaker, independent art historian den curator. Na he be educated wey he teach at de Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, den insyd de United Kingdom. He create works wey dey improvise form den colour den speak to uniquely Ghanaian architecture den African strip-woven textiles, wey dey include those of de Kente, de Ewe den Asante of Ghana.

Early life den education
Dem born George Atta Kwami insyd 1956 for Accra insyd to Robert Kwami, a music teacher, den prominent first generation Ghanaian contemporary artist Grace Kwami (nee Anku), he study, wey later he teach, at de KNUST insyd Kumasi, Ghana. Insyd 2007 he receive a PhD insyd art history at de Open University for ein work for contemporary Ghanaian artists, now dem publish as Kumasi Realism, 1951–2007: An African Modernism (Hurst & Company, 2013).

 Career 
Na dem award Kwami de title of 1st Thoyer Distinguished Visiting Scholar insyd New York University, New York, from 30 September to 8 October 2008.

Kwami sanso hold de Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship (UCLA) at de Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, from 1 March to 31 May 2010.

Na he be Artist-in-Residence at de University of Michigan, Graduate School of Art & Design, insyd January 2011.

Kwami win de Janet L. Stanley Travel Award make he attend de Fifteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art dem entitle "Africa and its Diasporas in the Market Place: Cultural Resources and the Global Economy" at de University of California, Los Angeles, from 23 to 26 March 2011.

Between 14 den 26 August 2011, he undertake de Howard Kestenbaum/Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA.

Insyd 2021, he win de Maria Lassnig Prize from de Maria Lassnig Foundation insyd Vienna den de Serpentine Galleries insyd de UK.

 Exhibitions 
Na dem exhibit Kwami ein work insyd de Metropolitan Museum of Art insyd New York, National Museum of African Art, National Museum of Ghana, National Museum of Kenya, Victoria and Albert Museum, de World Museum, den de British Museum.

Ein life matter

Insyd 1992, Kwami marry Pamela Clarkson, a painter den printmaker wey na he meet insyd 1991 wen she set up a printmaking studio at de College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Dem divide dema time between Kumasi, Ghana, den Loughborough, United Kingdom.

He die of cancer insyd de UK on 6 October 2021.
 External links 
 Official site

 References 

Category:1956 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:Ghanaian artists
Category:Ghanaian painters
Category:Ghanaian curators
Category:20th-century Ghanaian historians
Category:Ghanaian art historians

Category:Human
Category:Ghanaians
Category:People wey komot Accra