AMOAKO BOAFO
Born Accra, Ghana
Resides Vienna, Austria

EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2007 Ghanatt College of Art and Design, Acra, Ghana

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “SINGULAR DUALITY: ME CAN MAKE WE” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA; catalogue
“Soul of Black Folks” Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2020 "AMOAKO BOAFO: THE GAZE, AN EXCHANGE” The Miettinen Collection, Salon Dahlmann,
Berlin, Germany
“I STAND BY ME” Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 “I SEE ME” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA; catalogue
“Amoako Boafo: 2019 Artist-in-Residence” Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida
2018 “Re Masculinity” Brazil House, Accra, Ghana
2017 “Illuminated” House of Bandits, Vienna, Austria
“Pillow Talks” Casino-Baumgarten, Vienna, Austria
“Detoxing Masculinity” We Dey X Space, Vienna, Austria
“Night School” Volkskunde Museum, Vienna, Austria
2016 “Step Into the Darkness” Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Homecoming: The Aesthetic of the Cool” Gallery 1957, Accra Ghana
2020 “Synchronicity” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
“myselves” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"About Face" curated by Ali Subotnick. Gallery Platform Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“XENIA: Crossroads in Portrait Painting” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
“Wish You Were Here” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
2019 “Two Ages: Young” Crone Side, Berlin, Germany
“As long as we are flying all this world ain't got no end” Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
“Punch” curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Guerilla of Enlightenment” Rotor Center for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
2018 “The Alumni Exhibition Series” Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
“Tell Me" Red House, Galerie Bodenseekreis, Meersburg, Germany
“Archipelago: Island of Unpredictable Thinking” Wiener Festwochen, Hauptbüchereiam
Gürtel, Vienna, Austria
“Your Pressure Is My Pleasure” Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2017 “Rethinking Afropolitan: The Ethics of Black Atlantic Masculinities" College of the Holy
Cross, Worcester, MA
“Walter Koschatzky Art Prize” Hofstallung Mumok, Vienna, Austria
“Decolonial Borderlands” Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2016 “Step Into the Darkness” Kunstalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“Anti Colonial Fantasies” Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria
“We Dey Show” WUK Project Room, Vienna, Austria
2015 “Familiarities-Unexpected Queerings” Vbkö, Vienna, Austria
2014 “Group Exhibition” National Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
2013 “Group Exhibition” Stilwerk, Vienna, Austria
“Group Exhibition” Chale Wote Festival, Accra, Ghana
2012 “Group Exhibition” Novotel, Accra, Ghana

AWARDS & HONORS
2020 Spring / Summer 2021 Collaboration with Dior
2019 STRABAG Art award International, Vienna, Austria
Artist-in-Residence, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida
2017 Walter Koschatzky Art Prize, Vienna, Austria
2014 KültürGemma, Arbeitsstipendium der Stadt, Vienna, Austria
2008 Best Portrait Painter of the Year, Ghanatta College of Art and Design, Accra, Ghana
2007 Best Abstract Painter of the Year, Ghanatta College of Art and Design, Accra, Ghana

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida
Miettinen Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
City of Miami Beach Art Collection, Miami, Florida
Blenheim Art Foundation, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK

PUBLICATIONS
“I See Me”, Roberts Projects
“WTF willimsen”, Wimmumsens Museum
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Uplift Aerospace, Suborbital Triptych

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