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  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Internships
  • Programs
  • Events
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  • Artist Residency
    • Yaw Owusu
    • Tunde Wey
    • Murjoni Merriweather
    • Marvin Touré
  • Gallery
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Photo courtesy of the artist

 

Yaw Owusu

Winter of 2023

 

Yaw Owusu (b. 1992, Kumasi, Ghana) is a visual artist who creates sculptural installations that repurpose found objects, shifting otherwise – worthless materials into encounters of value, and things of other realities. Using steel, gold, silver, copper and found objects in foils; sheets and coins – through activities of change and transformation; removal and attachment; and de-materializing. An approach rooted in a sense of playful alchemy that embraces the dynamics of currency, symbolism and meaning. Owusu received his BFA in painting from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He is the recipient of the prestigious Kuenyehia Art Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art (2018) and the Pratt Circle Award and Outstanding Student Award (2020).  Owusu currently lives and works in New York and Accra.

 

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Yaw Owusu, Unsolicited Barter, 2021, US pennies, Ghana pesewas, stainless steel, wood, Courtesy of the Artist

 

Artist-In-Residence Open House with Yaw Owusu

 

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

6:00 – 8:000 PM

ALMA|LEWIS

Free with registration

 

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NEWS

 

Yaw Owusu: A Penny, for What It’s Worth

Yaw Owusu – Reflections from the (in)visible past 

Yaw Owusu showcases new sculptural works at Dubai-based Efie Gallery

 

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