Black Atlantic Speaker Series #02 - Ibrahim Mahama
Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana. He obtained his BFA in Painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, followed by an MFA in Painting and Sculpture in 2013. His work was shown during the last 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Italy, ‘All The World’s Futures’, curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2015. He uses the transformation of materials to explore themes of commodity, migration, globalisation and economic exchange, themes that resonate powerfully with this season’s Black Atlantic Speaker Series. Often made in collaboration with others, his large-scale installations employ materials gathered from urban environments. He is based between Kumasi, Accra, and his hometown Tamale, where he founded SCCA, the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, an artist-run project space, exhibition and research hub.
Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana. He obtained his BFA in Painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, followed by an MFA in Painting and Sculpture in 2013. His work was shown during the last 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Italy, ‘All The World’s Futures’, curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2015. He uses the transformation of materials to explore themes of commodity, migration, globalisation and economic exchange, themes that resonate powerfully with this season’s Black Atlantic Speaker Series. Often made in collaboration with others, his large-scale installations employ materials gathered from urban environments. He is based between Kumasi, Accra, and his hometown Tamale, where he founded SCCA, the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, an artist-run project space, exhibition and research hub.