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Donkor, GodfriedGallery 1957

Born 1964 in Kumasi, Ghana. Lives and works in Accra, Ghana

Godfried Donkor, St Jack Broughton vs St George Stevenson, 2019, Courtesy of Gallery 1957  

Godfried Donkor is a British-Ghanaian mixed-media artist interested in the socio-historical relationships of Africa and Europe. Donkor left Ghana at the age of eight, growing up between Spain and England before completing a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London and an MA in African Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

Donkor’s work is included in international collections such as: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Smithsonian Museum of African Art – Washington D.C; Studio Museum, Harlem; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Spanish Sports Council Collection; National Collection of Senegal; University of Helsinki; and National Gallery of Botswana.

Selected group and solo exhibitions include: David Adjaye: Making Memory, Design Museum, London (2019); The First Day of the Yam Custom: 1817, Gallery 1957, Accra (2017); Afriques Capitales, Parc de la Villiette, Paris (2017); and Still the Barbarians, EVA International Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick (2016).

Selected Artists

Mohamoud, Esmaa

Mlengeya, Sungi

Choumali, Joana

Uwagboe, Bob-Nosa

Asidere, Duke

Makonnen, Tsedaye

Désert, Jean-Ulrick

Gyasi, Prince

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