ANNIE-MARIE
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ANNIE-MARIE AKUSSAH
b. Accra, Ghana
EDUCATION
2023 PGCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication, UAL
2021 MFA (Painting and Sculpture), KNUST
2018 BA Fine Art, Painting (1st Class Honours): UAL (Wimbledon College of Art)
2015 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Working Mens College, London
SOLO SHOWS
2021 Where is Every-Body? Abono, Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND OPEN STUDIOS
2026 Dialogue avec la collection Albers-Honegger, Espace de l’Art Concret, France
2024 360º+:Facets, Rears and Musings Beyond Urban Cues.Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana
Kigali Triennale, Kigali, Rwanda
2023 Scraping Back to Go Forward: Tales of Alienation, Art Exchange, Essex
Art at the Archive, London Metropolitan Archive, London, UK
2022 “Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono”, Rencontres de Bamako Biennale, Mali
2021 Limen, KNUST
2019 “Diaspora”, New Ashgate Gallery
FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London
Now & Then, The Collection Reimagined, Orleans House Gallery, London
2018 Bloomberg New Contemporaries , Liverpool John Moores as part of the Liverpool Biennale
Bloomberg New Contemporaries , South London Gallery
Xhibit, Bermondsey Project Space, London
Camberwell Film Festival, London
My Chain Hits My Neck, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
ART FAIRS
2019 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Where is Every-Body? Abono, Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana
2018 UAL Black History Month Exhibition, Copeland Gallery
2017 Art Quest Artist's Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2025 If the figure (Portraiture) is overburdened, How do we use this tradition to talk about something else?
Camberwell College of Art, Counterpoints Lecture, London.
2024 Scoring Time; Landscapes as Monuments. London Metropolitan Archive, London.
2022 blaxTARLINES Panel with Godelive Kasangati and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Rencontres de Bamako.
2021 AER Art for the Environment Symposium, UAL
2020 Art Chat, BlaxTARLINES Kumasi
2019 The Uprooted, The Unrooted and Those Who Remain in Transit, Fetentaa, Ghana.
Standing Voice Summer Workshop, Ukerewe, Tanzania
AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES
2019 Thread, Senegal
2018 Mead Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Embracing Sustainable Practices and Attitudes in Times of Political Uncertainty. (Online Publication)
2019 Where do we go from here, advice & practical strategies on navigating artistic practices and business’after university.
Contribution in “Body Politić” by Shades of Noir.
PRESS
2026 Espace de l’Art Concret
2018 London Evening Standard (Publication)
Refinery29 ( Online Publication)
Standing Voice ( Online Publication )
COLLECTIONS
UAL Collection
EF (Education First)
London Metropolitan Archive
TEACHING
2023 - present, Lead Specialist Painting, Learning & Teaching Technician, Fine Art, UAL, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK.
Previously: Associate Lecturer, UAL, London College of Communication, London, UK and Lead Art Teacher, Oasis Academy, London, UK.