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Atta Kwami

Atta Kwami

Artist and Art Historian

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Artist and Art Historian

  • Education

    • Wolfson College, Cambridge

      2012 - 2013
      Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar Art and Museums in Africa

    • Achimota School

      1968 - 1973

      Activities and Societies: Achimota School Orchestra

    • Kwame Nkrumah University, Kumasi, Ghana; RCA London, UK; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

      1976 - 2007
      B.A. (Art); M.Phil.; Ph.D. Painting, Printmaking, Art History

      Activities and Societies: Chair, SaNsA International Artists' Workshop 2003-2009.

  • Experience

    • Atta Kwami

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      Artist and Art Historian

    • Atta Kwami

      Jun 1976 - now

      Painting, printmaking, installation, photography Painting, printmaking, installation, photography; archives of contemporary Ghanaian/African art.

      • Owner, Atta Kwami

        Jun 1976 - now

      • Artist and art historian

        Jun 1976 - now

    • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi

      Jun 1986 - Oct 2006
      Senior Lecturer

      Lecturer in Painting, Printmaking and Art History.

    • ACASA (Arts Council of the African Studies Association)

      Jan 2010 - now
      Member

      Independent artist, art historian and curator

    • National Museum of African Art

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2010
      Philip L. Ravenhill Fellow

      Visiting Artist and Scholar

    • University of Cambridge Centre of African Studies

      Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
      Research Fellow

      Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme,Art and Museums in Africa

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Doctor of Philosophy, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

      The Open University
      Sept 2007
      View certificate certificate

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Atta Kwami
      2021 Maria Lassnig Prize Maria Lassnig Foundation / Serpentine Galleries UK Oct 2020 The Maria Lassnig Prize is awarded biennially to a mid-career artist in association with an international institutional partner. Atta Kwami is the third artist to be granted the Maria Lassnig Prize, following Cathy Wilkes, in partnership with MoMA PS1 (2017), and Sheela Gowda, in partnership with Lenbachhaus, Munich (2019).
    • Awarded to Atta Kwami
      Ghana Cultural Fund Award Ghana Cultural Fund Jul 2008 for the publication of a Ph.D. thesis: Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007: An African Modernism, (HURST Publishers, London).