BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Ghana, I studied painting at The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, College of Art, Kumasi, Ghana, where I earned a BA in Art: Painting and Drawing (1989) and an MA in Art Education (1991).  I later received an MFA in Painting and Drawing (2001) from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.A.
I moved to England in 1991 and finally settled in the United States in 1994 after a major solo exhibition of my works created in London were exhibited in Accra, Ghana at The Artists Alliance Gallery. I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Art, SUNY at Buffalo since 2006.

Statement

My work interprets the relationship between colonial history and contemporary global phenomenon. Through humor and metaphor, I explore the residual effects of colonialism. I am facinated by spectacle, history, memory, and the observable. I borrow and reconstitute imagery from global popular culture, the urban-sphere, technology and nature.