Atta Kwami

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

Career 

 Howard Kestenbaum/Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA
 Janet L. Stanley Travel Award: Fifteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art, University of California, Los Angeles.
 Artist in Residence, University of Michigan, Graduate School of Art & Design
 Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship, (UCLA); Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
 1st Thoyer Distinguished Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York

Exhibitions 
Kwami's work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, National Museum of African Art, National Museum of Ghana, National Museum of Kenya, Victoria and Albert Museum, the World Museum, and the British Museum.

References

External links 
 Official site

Category:Ghanaian artists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Living people