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Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo is delighted to present Inside Out in Paris. Inside Out is Amoako’s first solo exhibition in Europe and is on view from April 28 to June 4, 2022. More to be announced…
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Upcoming Solo Exhibitions
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks
Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks is the debut solo museum exhibition in the United States for Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo. The show is a presentation of over 30 works created between 2016–2022. The subjects featured in Boafo’s paintings represent the nuance and complexities of Black life globally. Boafo creates images that actively center Black subjectivity, Black joy, the Black gaze, and radical care as a foundational framework for his artistic practice….
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Amoako Boafo’s stylish portraits celebrate Blackness in all its multitudes
Gilles Deleuze once said, “The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.” In his latest series of portraits, painter Amoako Boafo’s figures are often depicted accompanied by those ever-present but elusive companions. As a counterpoint to the...
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Portraying individuals from the Diaspora and beyond, he invites a reflection on Black subjectivity. Great art. View more
AMOAKO BOAFO | AN INCANTATION
Amoako Boafo. “RED FRAMES” (2021). Oil on canvas. 40” x 30”. ©Thomas Amoako Boafo, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Photo Alan Shaffer. After I leave Amoako Boafo’s studio in Los Angeles, I can’t get James Baldwin out of my mind....
Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo is a rising art-world superstar. The 36-year-old Ghanaian artist’s work, characterized by bright colors and textured finger painting, highlights Black identity and the African diaspora with complexity and warmth: in the 2020 painting The Pink...
Amoako Boafo’s Paintings Launched into Space on a Bezos Rocket
Last Wednesday, three portraits painted by the Vienna-based Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo were launched from Texas into space. They floated in the void before coming back down to Earth just eleven minutes later. The launch of the “Suborbital Triptych” (2021) was a...
Figurative painter Amoako Boafo on his stratospheric rise
Amoako Boafo’s work questions contemporary misunderstandings of blackness by contrasting personal and structural perceptions and portrayals of black people. His heavily expressionistic and sensitive portraits of friends and acquaintances highlight their...
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