CONTACT: email: gohughes@gmail.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work uses the history of colonialism as a basis to highlight parallels between colonial history and contemporary global conflicts. I interpret the spectacle of news, history and social engagement by borrowing imagery from global popular culture such as sports and ritual. I revisit the harsh realities of colonialism and its current ramifications through humor and metaphor.
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Education
2001 Master of Fine Arts, Painting & Drawing Minor. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. USA.
1992 Master of Arts, Art Education. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
1989 Bachelor of Arts, Painting & Drawing Minor. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Exhibitions
2022
The REBEL Exhibition, Untitled Space, New York, NY. “The “REBEL” Exhibition celebrates art activists and creative game changers that are inspiring positive change and progression with their artwork.” (Group Show)
Moments in Time: Tangents, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY. Images from popular culture mixed with human and animal body parts to interpret with humor the inconsistencies of society. (Solo)
In These Truths, Albright Knox Gallery Northland, Buffalo, NY. Invitational exhibition focusing on North American Black contemporary cultural producers. Works challenged preconceived notions of white America and present Black America in all its complexity, grace, struggle, and accomplishment. (Group show)
New Shapes from Old Tropes, Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery, Fredonia, NY. Paintings, sculptures, collages and drawings by artists from the Buffalo area. (Group show)
30th Anniversary Group Show, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY. (Group show)
2021
2021 National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, MA. Juried by Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director and Chief Curator, 21c Museums. (Group show)
LINE, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA. (Group show)
Working Artists Lab: Cecily Brown, UB Arts Collaboratory, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. UB and Buffalo artists, as well as student artists from the Buffalo Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, created a new mural to adorn the Academy’s walls. (Group show)
Cadeaux at Resource Art, The Raft of Insanity, Buffalo, NY. (Group show)
Art X Lagos 2021, Lagos, Nigeria. (Group show)
Verdant, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. The theme for this exhibition is the color green and its various shades and tones. (Group show)
Faces, The Art Center, Dover, NH. (Group show)
2020
MASS: 2020 Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea. Featured artists: Andrea Bagdon, Lesley Bunch, Sihun Cha, Audra Jacot, Suhui Kim, Shahar Kramer, Alicia Little, Chaehyeun Oh, Patrick Price, Youngjoon Song, We-Us-Squared: group members are Andy Krzystek, George Afedzi-Hughes, Ian McCrohan, Lowell Merritt and Ruby Merritt. (Group show)
FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Political Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. International juried exhibition focused on socially and politically engaged art. (Group show)
Figure That! ‘The Human Story’ 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, 3 Square Art Gallery, CO. An Annual juried exhibition. (Group show)
Made in NY 2020: Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY. Annual juried exhibition, which features artwork by artists residing in New York State. (Group show)
2019
A Focus on Collectors: Jack Edson, Eleven Twenty Projects, Buffalo, NY. A concise survey of the hidden gems of Western New York, collected over the years by passionate and driven individuals. (Group show)
2018
The Politics of Identity, Buffalo Arts Studios, Buffalo, New York, USA. Paintings exhibited reflect the history of colonialism and its legacies.
2017
Urban Allusions, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. Survey exhibition of recent paintings and installations.
2015
Recent Works, Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, Alabama, USA. Survey exhibition of recent paintings and installations.
Collisions [amp], Indigo Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Addressed the psychological echoes of cultural deterioration through metaphors populated with vehicles, war machinery, body parts and historical/current iconography.
2014
Crime Dots, Centre des Arts, Contemporains du Quebec, Montreal. A generic interpretation of crime statistics in major cities using color-coded dots to indicate various crime locations
2013
Collisions, Skoto Gallery, NY, NY. Paintings and installation which reference war machinery, military uniforms with epaulettes, automobiles, colonial / historical references.
2012
Muffled Connections, Performing Arts Forum, St Erme, France, Installation in a former C19th convent, now an art residency referenced the emergence of dynamic communication social systems.
2011
Fragments, Buffalo Arts Studio Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA. Paintings exhibited explore the contingence between violence and reconciliation. Curator: Cori Wolf.
2010
Urban Overtures, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana. Paintings exhibited contemplate the stridence of urbanization through the use of metropolitan iconography. Curator: Theo Adete.
Layers, Skoto Gallery, NYC, NY, USA. Paintings with collage elements combining images from disparate sources in order to address the use of violence by humans to solve geo-political conflicts. Curator: Skoto Aghahowa.
2009
George Afedzi Hughes, Atrium im Bockreiterzentrum, Herzogenrath, Germany. Paintings exhibited referenced power relations and the implied violence within such relations. Curator: Jutta and Joachim Melchers.
Signs & Symbols Collision, The Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, China. The paintings combined imagery from street signs and sociopolitical symbols. Curator: Yao Junjie.
On Guns Redcoats and Everything Else, Influx Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal. Paintings referenced the violence of colonial history, drawing parallels between that history and contemporary global conflicts. Curator: Nuno Salgueiro-Lobo.
2007
Performance Art: What you perceive is what you conceive II, Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland. A performance probing the significance of the irrational in relation to myths that govern our belief systems. Curator: Maruska Svasek.
2006
Paintings, Mainsite Gallery, Norman, OK, USA. The exhibition was in three parts: achromatic paintings exploring procreation, 3D assemblages addressing the plunder of gold resources by colonial regimes and mixed media paintings as a discourse of mortality. Curator: Christian Pitt.
Social Predation, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, USA. Exhibited paintings depicting notions of power relationships and the implied violence within these relationships. Curator: John Massier.
George Hughes: Retrospective Exhibition, Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK, USA. A decade’s (1996-2006) overview of paintings and assemblages. Curator: Jeff Cooper.
Performance Art: Rights of Passage, Myers Gallery, Living Arts of Tulsa, OK, USA. Paintings explored the human condition in its mockery of contradictions, stereotypes and errors. Curator: Steve Liggett.
Culture, Identity and Beyond, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Performance art synthesizing painting, sound, music, poetry and video. Curator: Anna Jager.
2005
Metaphysics, Carter Arts Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA. Exhibited paintings that investigate the nuance of sensation such as doubt, discomfort and despair in our lives. Curator: Bernadette Torres.
Chronic Dreams, Park-Art Gallery, NYC, NY, USA. Exhibition of paintings with imagery reminiscent of colonial history. Curator: Ken Croken.
Skin and Essence, Myers Gallery, Living Arts of Tulsa, OK, USA. Paintings explored the human condition in its mockery of contradictions, stereotypes and errors. Curator: Steve Liggett.
Performance Art: Dead Man Series, 435 Park Avenue, NY, NY, USA. Performance art in which I played dead on the side of the street, eavesdropping on pedestrian vocal response.
2003
Cosmopolitan, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana. Paintings exhibited captured the subtleties within multicultural environments experienced over ten years of living abroad. Curator Ablade Glover.
2002
Symbols and Metaphors, Mainsite Gallery, Norman, OK, USA. Paintings exhibited drew parallels between the structural qualities of robots, machines and African sculpture. Curator: Tom Torperzer.
2001
Lineage, Livingstone Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands. Works on paper (blueprints and vellum) exploring human ancestry. Curator: Jeroen Dijkstra.
2000
Von Ghana nach Amerika (From Ghana to America), Galerie Xenios, Frankfurt, Germany. Paintings and collages exploring contemporary urban life using traditional African sculptural proportions.
Contemporary Urban Life, 20 North Gallery, Toledo, OH, USA. Paintings exhibited morphed urban iconography with traditional African sculptures. Curator: Peggy Grant.
Group Exhibitions / Performance Art
2018
The World’s Game: Futbol and Contemporary Art, Perez Museum, Miami, Florida. http://pamm.org/exhibitions/world’s-game-fútbol-and-contemporary-art
So Much More: Ohio’s African American Artists, Willard Wankelman Gallery BGSU Fine Art Center, Bowling Green, Ohio. (curator: Jacqueline S. Nathan) https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/school-of-art/galleries/past-exhibitions1/fall-2018.html
2017
Selections 2017, Skoto Gallery, NYC, NY. https://www.skotogallery.com/SPT-0-221-default-Selections-2017
2016
Art Dubai, UAE, exhibition with Nubuke Foundation, Johara BallRoom, Dubai, UAE. (curator: Kofi Setordji and Odile Tevi) https://issuu.com/artdubai/docs/ad16_educationguide_issuu
FootForaine at La Villette, Paris, France (curator: Jean-Max Colard). http://www.newsoftheartworld.com/villette-celebrates-football-contemporary-art/?lang=en
Dakar-Martigny:Hommage A La Biennale D’Art Contemporain. http://www.manoir-martigny.ch/dakar-martigny.html
Art, Honor, and Ridicule: Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Commissioned to do two original paintings informed by traditional Fanti flags of the Akan.
2015
Global Topics Artco Gallery, Aachen, Germany. Featuring Bruce Clark, Godfried Donkor, George Afedzi Hughes, Owusu Ankomah, Manuela Sambo.
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Sabdton Convention Center, Johannesburg, South Africa. Group show.
Amid/In WNY. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Visual representation of crime statistics in major cities using color-coded tin-caps (roofing discs) to indicate various crime locations.
2014
Contemporary Beirut (Global Art Fair) Opening date: Wed. May 21st 2014 / 18h-23h Daily until May 31st from 16h till 21h. A showcase of works by “artists from Lebanon, Syria, Armenia, Iran, Japan, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Indonesia, China, Germany, France & US.
Futbol, The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition examines the significance of football in societies around the world.
2013
West to West, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany. Artists invited by Owusu Ankomah for the show are Godfried Donkor, Afedzi Hughes, Atta Kwami, Wemega Kwawu, El Loko, Sokari Douglas Camp, Lawson Oyekan and Romuald Hazoume.
2012
Aus Afrika, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen, Germany. Paintings, sculptures and photographs by the following artists: Tété Azankpo, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Saidou Dicko, Godfried Donkor, Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, Romuald Hazoumè, George Afedzi Hughes, Toyin Loye, Owusu-Ankomah, Chéri Samba, Manuela Sambo, Rikki Wemega-Kwawu and Zinkpé.
Moving Into Space: Football and Art in West Africa, National Football Museum, Manchester, England. Contemporary West African artists whose art is inspired by football to explore wider social issues.Curator: Martin Barlow.
2011
Buffalo on the Bowery, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY. Sixty-eight artists with local ties donated work to the auction, including Rupp, Gregory Halpern, Amanda Besl, A. J. Fries, Megan Greene, Amy Greenan, George Afedzi Hughes, Julian Montague, Reed Anderson, and Jacob Kassay
Art Lisboa, Parque das Nações, Lisbon, Portugal. Brought together a selection of forty national and international contemporary and modern art galleries, as well as journals and specialized publications.Curator: Ivânia de Mendonça Gallo.
Just One, Artco Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany. Fifty-three artists exhibited one work each of drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs. Curator: Joachim Melchers.
Les Fantomes, Jack Bell Gallery, London, England. Featuring painting, photography and sculpture. Curator: Jack Bell.
South is the new North, Influx Contemporary Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal. Group show featuring painting, sculpture, photography and video. Curator: Nuno Salgueiro-Lobo.
2010
Arte Lisboa, Pavilhao do Rio of the Lisbon Congress Center, Lisbon, Portugal. Art fair with forty-one national and international contemporary and modern art galleries. Curator: Ivânia de Mendonça Gallo.
Spirit Tangents, Haliburton Forest Project, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. Installation conceived as homage to dead trees. Curator: Reinhard Reitzenstein.
100@100: Works of Art by Alumni artists to celebrate BGSU’s Centennial, Bowling Green State University, OH, USA. Twenty-five works by outstanding alumni representing the School’s proudest accomplishments. Curator: Jacqui Nathan.
In & Out of Africa, Henn Art, Galeries Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Exhibition of thirteen artists originally from Africa working both abroad and in Africa exploring varied artistic styles. Curators: Gerry Belinc, Oliver Henn and Joachim Melchers.
Africa 2.0: Is there a Contemporary African Art?, Influx Contemporary Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal. Contemporary work from African artists of the Diaspora. Curator: Nuno Salgueiro-Lobo.
Performance Art: Rites of Blue Impediment, Haverford College, Black Box Theater, Haverford, PA, USA. A three-day residency organized by Ruti Talmor, Haverford professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. The performance used ritual, sound, ornate props and supporting cast to address subtle methods used by predominant cultural groups to impede the progression of sub-cultural groups.
2009
Nsoroma, The Dei Center, Accra, Ghana. Exhibition organized by the Dei Centre in memory of the late Professor Joe Nkrumah. Curator: Lyle Ashton.
Homecoming Exhibition, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana. Invitational group exhibition organized for seven leading Ghanaian expatriate artists practicing abroad. Curators: Kojo Fosu and Ablade Glover.
It’s Never Too Late To Become a Man, Coningsby Gallery, London, England. Works of artists across the Continent of Africa. Curator: Joe Pollitt.
Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Center, Johannesburg, South Africa. Art Fair with international galleries representing African artists. Represented by Artco Gallery.
Figure and Form: Explorations of Humanity, M. Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, USA. Exhibition offered a range of perspectives on the human condition using the human figure as subject matter. Curator: Tina Hastings.
2008
The St. James’s Auction, Rosebury, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, England. Paintings explored inner-city violence through the use of collage, signs, symbols, text and mixed media. Curator: Marcus Grey.
Dialog, Artco Galerie, Herzogenrath, Germany. An exhibition of works by artists of African and European descent exploring stylistic contrast. Curator: Joachim Melchers.
Performance Art:
Shrines & Masquerades Live: Indifferentia, Commons Gallery, NYU Steinhardt, NYC, NY, USA. Performance art inspired by the African traditions of shrines and masquerades as well as the negotiation of identity in cosmopolitan America.
Monsters of Nature & Design II, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Performance played on the format of a ritual sacrifice in tribal societies with undercurrent themes of colonialism, globalism, transformation, and transcendence. Collaborators: Gary Nickard, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Cartherine Carfagna, Biff Henrich, Scott Ryan, Dave Meinzer, Brian Grunert, Patrick Heyden, Thom Furtado, Daughters of Creative Sound, David A. Moore, Dave Gutierrez, and Jeanette Sperhac
Race Symbiosis, intervened Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada. A performance that uses humor to present 'race' in the light of appearances, and that racial interdependence have often been overshadowed by the dialogue on racial differences. Collaboration with Geoff Krawczyk.
Sum-phusis, Black Box Theater, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA. Address allegorically the seemingly random effects of natural disasters contrasted with events initiated by human beings. Collaboration with UB Assistant Professor Melanie Aceto, Dance & Theater.
2007
Art Fair 21, Cologne Gladbacher Wall 5, Cologne, Germany. 58 distinguished galleries from 10 countries presented a diverse range of 21st century art. Work exhibited: Gold Coast, a painting that chronicles the colonial history of Ghana.
In and Out of Africa, Museum for Art and Ethnography, Schwaz, Austria. An overview exhibition of four contemporary artists: Sokari Douglas Camp (Nigeria/England), Zinpe (Benin/France), George Hughes (Ghana/USA) and Owusu Ankomah (Ghana/Germany).
2006
Diagne Chanel / George Hughes, (dubbed France meets United States), Artco Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany. Paintings and drawings exhibited contrasted Diagne Chanel’s (Senegal/France) sociopolitical works with mine (Ghana/USA). Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Becker, former Director of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, opened the exhibition.
New Paintings, Mainsite Contemporary Gallery, Norman, OK, USA. Exhibited works included new mixed media paintings. Curator: Christian Pitt.
2005
Multiple Oneness, Park-Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA. Group show celebrating stylistic diversity among artists previously shown at the gallery. Curator: Ken Croken.
Performance Art: Rights of Passage, Myers Gallery, Living Arts of Tulsa, OK, USA. The performance explored the limitations of a boxed-in culture revealed through puppetry, manipulation, mimicry and ritual. Curator: Steve Liggett.
2004
Art, Fred Jones Museum of Art, Norman, OK, USA. Faculty members of The University of Oklahoma Group show. Presented an installation/performance entitled Ego Transformation/Genome Revelation. Curator: Dr. Andrew Phelan.
Transition, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra Ghana/ LO/FTF, Copenhagen, Denmark. Traveling exhibition of twelve contemporary artists of Ghana whose work serves as a medium to facilitate visions about the future.
2002
Third National Juried Competition, Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, USA. Juried exhibition of forty-four professional artists. Juror: Maria Christian Vallasenor, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY, USA.
2001
De Kleur Van De Liefde is Blauw (The Color of Love is Blue), The Old Flora Theater, The Hague, The Netherlands. The exhibition sought to promote multicultural activities. An exhibition opened by the Ambassador of Ghana, H. E. Mrs. Grace Amponsah-Ababio and the Mayor of the Hague, Mr. W. Deetman.
The Vibrant Art of Ghana, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands. To mark the third centenary of ties between the Netherlands and present-day Ghana, the Gemeente museum launched an exhibition of Ghanaian art. Three artists Philip Kwame Apagya, Francis Provençal and George Hughes represented contemporary Ghanaian art. Curator: Franz Kaiser.
Menschenbilder (People Pictures), Society for Technical Cooperation, Eschborn, Germany. Six artists from partner countries Mexico, Bangladesh, Poland, Ghana, Indonesia and Nigeria show GTZ (Society for Technical Cooperation) estimation, personal views and visions on man.
U vraagt ..Wij draaien?!? (You ask….We twist), Artoteek Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. International group of artist, exhibition juried by Totie Cronin, Sietse van der Hoek, Remy Jungeraman, John Menke, Karin Moor and Mildred Rambhajan.
1998
Painted Gold (Goudkust Geschilderd), Art Museum voor Zuid, Goes, The Netherlands. Kwame Akoto and George Hughes exhibited paintings representing works of two Ghanaian artists.
Exposite Kuana, Cirkel Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. An exhibition on contemporary Ghanaian art with the works of the following artists: Wiz Kudowor, Amon Kotei, George Hughes, Ablade Glover, E. Krotei Tetteh, Rikki Wemega Kwamu, Tafa Fiadzigbe, Victor Odoi.
Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Ghana (Contemporary Art from Ghana), Galerie Xenios, Frankfurt, Germany. Contemporary art from Ghana showing the diversity of styles by participating artists. Curator: Petra de Jung.
New Music and Art, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH, USA. Invitational compendium of documentary photographs, paintings, videos and art vehicles manifested through radically embellished and augmented automobiles. Curator: Jacqueline Nathan.
Toledo Area 78th Annual Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA. Juried annual area artists’ exhibition. Work exhibited: Current Affairs, painting triptych addressing political turbulence.
Hedendaagse Schilderkunst uit Ghana (Contemporary Painting from Ghana), Maison Descartes, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ten leading Ghanaian artists both home and abroad exhibited their most recent works. Curator: Petra de Jung.
Residencies
2010
Artist in Residence, Haliburton Forest Art Project, Haliburton ON, Canada. Created an installation Spirit Tangents from materials found on site. Curator: Reinhard Reitzenstein.
Artist in Residence, topic: ‘Look Both Ways,’ Haverford College, Haverford, PA, USA. Curated by Ruti Talmor, Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Haverford College, PA, USA. Performance and slide lecture.
2007
Artist in Residence, topic: ‘Culture, Assimilation and Rejection,’ Queens University, organized by Dr. Maruska Svasek, School of History and Anthropology, Belfast, North Ireland. Art performance and lecture.
2006
Artist in Residence, topic: ‘Culture, Identity and Beyond,’ Invited by Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann, Anna Jager, Sylvia Fiegert, Humboldt University, Department of Asian and African Studies, Berlin, Germany. Painting, performance art, and slide lecture.
Invited Lectures
2010 Guest Speaker, Slide Lecture, Dei Foundation for Contemporary African Art, Accra, Ghana. Artist Talk, slide lecture.
Visiting Artist, Takoradi Polytechnic, Painting and Sculpture Department. Takoradi, Ghana. Lecture topic: “Contemporary Art
Trends: Lesson for Future African Artists”.
2009 Visiting Artist, Speakers Series, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, USA.
2007 Visiting Artist, topic: ‘Journey Through Cultures’, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Chelsea, London, England.
2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, OH, USA. Slide lecture, critiques and painting demonstration.
2004 Visiting Artist and Instructor, Quartz Mountain, Lone Wolf, OK, USA.
2002-03 Visiting Artist and Instructor, Quartz Mountain, Lone Wolf, OK, USA.
2000 Visiting Artist, Elmhurst Elementary School, Toledo, OH, USA. Workshop for elementary students.
1999 Visiting Artist, Athena Art Society, Toledo, OH, USA. Slide Lecture on drawings and paintings.
1998 Artists Talk “New Music And Art Festival”. Open Forum at Toledo Museum of Art. Panel discussion on art and music with
composer John Williams, sculptor David Best and painter. Organized and curated by Jacqui Nathan.
1998 Visiting Artist, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA. Painting demonstration, critique and slide lecture.
Bibliography
2010 Books:
Helmut, Anheier, and Yudhishthir Raj Isar. Cultural Expression, Creativity & Innovation, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications Ltd, 2010. Pgs 62-77.
Reviews:
Holland, Cotter. “George Afedzi Hughes: Layers“ New York Times 5/18/10.
Pigg, Susan. “The Forest Beyond The Trees” The Star.com 8/13/10.
Catalogs:
Layers solo exhibition catalog with text by Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer (of Staatliches Museum) at Skoto Gallery, Chelsea, NY. 2010.
Urban Overtures solo exhibition catalog with text written by Dr. Nii Bonney Andrews at Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra 2010.
2009 Books:
Jegede, dele. “Painter, Performing Artist, Poet.” Encyclopaedia of African American Art, Westport, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009 Pgs 109-112.
2008 Catalogs:
Fosu, Kojo. “George Hughes”, Homecoming, Accra, Type Company Limited, 2009, Pgs 64-74.
Sumphusis performance art catalog with text written by me, UB Black Box Theater, Buffalo, 2008
Grey, Marcus. The St James’s Auction, Fine Arts & Sculpture, Rosebury’s, 2008, Pg 122
2007 Book:
Svasek, Maruska. Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production, “Artists on the move: George O. Hughes”, London, Pluto Press, 2007: Pgs116-121
Catalog:
Gehlen, Walter, and Andreas Lohaus Art Fair 21, 2007: Pgs 5 and 26.
Reviews:
2006
Chao, Albert. “Overlapping Spaces” Art Voice.12/7-13/06: Pg 21.
Bradenburg, John. “Mixed-media exhibit evokes energy, power” The Oklahoman 5/19/06: Pg 17D.
2005
Bravenman, Rebecca. “George Hughes makes a red contention” The Pitch 12/9/2005: Pg 21
Watts Jr., James D. Tulsa World 5/5/2005.
Martin, Charles. “529 Group Show” Pop 7/1/2005: Pg 13.
Bradenburg, John. “529 group exhibits works in Norman” The Oklahoman 6/17/05: Pg 19D
2004
McBee, Josh. The Norman Transcript 11/28/04: Pg E7.
2002
Siegal, Evon. “Artist shows depth in work” The Norman Oklahoman 3/7/02 Pg 1
Torperzer, Tom. “George Hughes” Galleries magazine Fall Edition 2002. Pg 10
Krug, Christopher. The Oklahoman Daily 9/10/02 Pg 11.
Brandenburg, John. The Daily Oklahoman 9/20/02.
Toperzer, Tom. “George Hughes: Recent Work” Norman Living magazine 9/02. Pg 65 – 67.
Torperzer, Tom. “Mainsite showing Symbols and Metaphors” Pop 9/6/2002 Pg 6.
Kaiser, Franz. “Talking to Painter George Hughes” Gemeente Museum Paper # 3 9/29/2001-1/6/2002 Pgs 1-3.
Radio Interviews
2010 Radio Channel: report RFI, Radio France International (February). 2010
2005 KCUR News, Kansas City, interviewed by Maria Carter. 2005
1992 BBC George Hughes Interview, interviewed by James Sasse (July). 1992
BBC World Service for Africa; Spice Taxi, interviewed by Silvia Smith (July). 1992
Video/TV Coverage
2010 “Artes e Espectáculos” cultural magazine, TV channel: RTP Africa (April). 2010
“Latitudes” cultural magazine TV channels: RTP Africa (February). 2010
“Nós” cultural magazine dedicated to multiculturalism TV channel: RTP 2 (February).
2006 Tennant, Carolyn, “Artgrease” Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo 2006.
2001 Ross, Doran, “George Hughes” Interview, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, 2001.
Gallery Representation
2008 - present Influx Contemporary Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
2005 - present Artco Kunstagentur GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany.
1994 - present Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana.