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ZANELE MUHOLI
Zanele Muholi FRPS (born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human".
ISHMAEL ARMARH
Born in 1986 in Accra, Ghana, IIshmael Armarh’s representation is richly drawn from historical and mythological figures. They are steeped into the textural surface, emanating an eeriness, announcing a coming of a new age of visual expression. Fetching international acclaim, Ismael is an emerging contemporary artist. Completely post-contemporary and post-human, they embark on the millennial sense of representation.
Ishmael borrows his narratives from the sci-fi tales that reflect the nature of youth today. He is trained at Ghanatta College of Art & Design, Accra, GHA. Developing his skills since his primary education, middle and advanced education, his training has been beneficial in developing a novel language for his ideas. Ishmael is interested in graphic design and painting. Portraying his interest in besetting environments and relative activities, the black figures in his painting provide his deep sense of connection to his native. Fundamentally, he likes to work with bright colours and prominent brush strokes. The backdrop of tiny forms develops an innovative texture that appears ornate and addresses a cultural momentum. Similarly, the accessories over figures provide a specific royal attribute to the characters.
Ishmael borrows his narratives from the sci-fi tales that reflect the nature of youth today. He is trained at Ghanatta College of Art & Design, Accra, GHA. Developing his skills since his primary education, middle and advanced education, his training has been beneficial in developing a novel language for his ideas. Ishmael is interested in graphic design and painting. Portraying his interest in besetting environments and relative activities, the black figures in his painting provide his deep sense of connection to his native. Fundamentally, he likes to work with bright colours and prominent brush strokes. The backdrop of tiny forms develops an innovative texture that appears ornate and addresses a cultural momentum. Similarly, the accessories over figures provide a specific royal attribute to the characters.
BOLU WATIFE OYADIRAN
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BOLUWATIFE OYEDIRAN WAS BORN IN NIGERIA IN 1997. HE CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS IN RHODE ISLAND, USA.
After a period at the Noldor Residency in Accra in 2021-2022, Ghana, Boluwatife Oyediran pursued his artistic career at the Rhode Island School of Design, from which he recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting.
A contemporary figurative painter, Oyedrian’s practice reflects his deep commitment to exploring Black identity, which he reimagines and reorients within the canons of history, religion and Western art.
Oyediran's early works used cotton as a central symbol of his thinking. They encouraged reflection on historical systemic oppression, by questioning the links between the history of fashion, the history of cotton and the way in which these histories are linked to Black labour.
His ongoing conceptual research – which is a continuation of his previous body of work – led him to develop the concept of 'Inverted Blackness'. In these new portraits Black figures are painted in negative; their bodies are blue and luminous, as though going through a transformative and otherworldly experience. The people who populate his new paintings are immigrants and nonimmigrants who left the African continent to settle in the United States
SISQO NDOMBE
SISQO NDOMBE AKISIEFUL known as "Lenoir" is a Congolese painter born in 1985 in Kikwit, the main city of the Kwilu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Passionate about drawing since he was a child. After his primary and secondary studies, his taste for drawing led him to integrate the Academy of Fine Arts of Kinshasa to train in the know-how of arts in order to perfect his look and his practice where, after several years of learning, Ndombe obtained his diploma of graduation in Plastic Arts.
Touching several fields of creation, Sisqo Ndombe then decided to devote himself full time to his passion: painting.
Passionate about drawing since he was a child. After his primary and secondary studies, his taste for drawing led him to integrate the Academy of Fine Arts of Kinshasa to train in the know-how of arts in order to perfect his look and his practice where, after several years of learning, Ndombe obtained his diploma of graduation in Plastic Arts.
Touching several fields of creation, Sisqo Ndombe then decided to devote himself full time to his passion: painting.
BARRY YUSUFU
Barry Yusufu Biography
Barry Yusufu is a self-taught Nigerian artist known for his rapid climb through the international contemporary ranks as a greatly desired and highly collectable talent. Born in 1996 in Nigeria, he works with gradated charcoal drawing techniques and boldly coloured acrylic paints to create his icon-esque works that reflect both a deep-rooted Christian faith and an intense desire to elevate the image of African men and women in art. Yusufu cites his work as a reflection of an intense desire to reflect the modern African and sees it as an opportunity to foster an evolution of Africanness and a spark to level up.
Barry Yusufu is a self-taught Nigerian artist known for his rapid climb through the international contemporary ranks as a greatly desired and highly collectable talent. Born in 1996 in Nigeria, he works with gradated charcoal drawing techniques and boldly coloured acrylic paints to create his icon-esque works that reflect both a deep-rooted Christian faith and an intense desire to elevate the image of African men and women in art. Yusufu cites his work as a reflection of an intense desire to reflect the modern African and sees it as an opportunity to foster an evolution of Africanness and a spark to level up.
KWAKU ACHIM
Kwaku Osei Owusu Achim (b. 1991) is a conceptual contemporary artist based in Accra, Ghana. Inspired by the works of Jean-Michel Basiquiat & Francis Bacon, Achim focuses on the intersection between how we view our lives and how our surroundings view us. He demonstrates the communication form of sign language, encompassing his fascination with how expressions of individualism through decision-making have a trickledown effect on collective interests.
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