Ibrahim Mahama (artist)

Ibrahim Mahama (born in 1987) is a Ghanaian author and an artist[1] of monumental installations. [2][3] He lives and works in Tamale, Ghana.[4] His work was shown during the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Italy All The World’s Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2015.[5]

Ibrahim Mahama
Born	1987 (1987) Tamale, Northern Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian
Other names	Mohammed
Education	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Occupation	Artist
Known for	Art

As part of his contribution to the development of Africa through art, Ibrahim was named the 73rd most influential African by theafricareport.com in the list of 100 most influential Africans 2019/2020[6]

In 2019, he started the Savannah Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale.[7]

Ibrahim Mahama repurposed 120 scratched second-class train seats through a parliament he calls the "parliament of ghost", a replica of Ghana's parliament chamber. The parliament of ghost was installed at the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester.[8]

Education

He obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture in 2013 and a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Painting in 2010 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION	YEAR	LOCATION	COUNTRY
Fragments[9]	2017	White Cube	UK
Material Effects	2015	Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum,Michigan State University	USA
Civil Occupation	2014	Ellis King, Dublin	IRELAND
Kawokudi Coal Sack Installation, Accra, Ghana Nima Coal Sack Installation, Accra, Ghana Adum Coal Sack Installation, , Kumasi, Ghana Jute, What Is Art?	2013	Accra Accra Railway Station,Kumasi K.N.U.S.T Museum,Kumasi	GHANA
Sisala Coal Market, Coal Sack Installation Trading Identities, Installation	2012	Newtown, Accra MFA Block, Kumasi	GHANA
The colonized body, Installation	2011	Kokomlemle,Accra	GHANA
Class and Identity, Installation, K.N.U.S.T, Kumasi Ghana	2010	K.N.U.S.T,Kumasi	GHANA
Purity? Cultures of display, Installation	2009	Bomso,Kumasi	GHANA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION	YEAR	LOCATION	COUNTRY
Documenta 14	2017	Athens kassel	GREECE GERMANY
Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK. All The World's Futures, Arsenale, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Pangaea II New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery Edson Chagas / Ibrahim Mahama Material Effects Silence between the Lines: Anagrams of emancipated Futures, K.N.U.S.T, Jackson, , Ghana.	2015	London Biennale de venezia Saatachi Gallery,London Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University, Michigan Contemporary Art Centre	UK ITALY UK ITALY USA GHANA
Pangaea New Art from Africa and Latin America	2014	Saatchi Gallery, London	UK
Masked and Unmasked		Dak’Art OFF, Saint Louis	SENEGAL
The Divine Comedy		Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt	GERMANY
Illumination, Installation	2011	K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi	GHANA
Hatching Out	2009	K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi	GHANA

References

1. "5 Contemporary Artists in Ghana". AsiwomeWrites.Com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
2. https://www.contemporaryand.com/person/ibrahim-mahama-2/
3. "Ibrahim Mahama - "A Friend" - Milan | My Art Guides". myartguides.com. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
4. Gallery. "Tyburn".
5. "Tyburn Gallery". Retrieved 18 February 2020.
6. "The 100 most influential Africans (71-80)". The Africa Report.com. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
7. "The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) | Contemporary And". contemporaryand.com (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
8. Youngs, Ian (9 July 2019). "The artist building a parliament with train seats". BBC News. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
9. "Ibrahim Mahama – Artist's Profile – The Saatchi Gallery". saatchigallery.com. Retrieved 6 July 2019.

Further reading

• Casavecchia, Barbara (2 March 2018). "'In Dependence': Ibrahim Mahama's Monuments to the Anonymous". frieze (194). ISSN 0962-0672.
• Cascone, Sarah (11 May 2016). "Stefan Simchowitz Settles Lawsuit with Artist". Artnet News. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
• Freeman, Nate (31 March 2016). "Jute-Sack Case Heats Up: Ibrahim Mahama Countersues Simchowitz, Ellis King". ARTnews. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
• Freemantle, Julia (16 February 2019). "Ghana's Ibrahim Mahama drapes huge buildings in recycled hessian sacks". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
• Kinsella, Eileen; Halperin, Julia (29 April 2019). "Flags Can Be 'a Symbol of Oppression': Artist Ibrahim Mahama on Why He Replaced 50 National Flags at Rockefeller Center". Artnet News. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
• O'Toole, Sean. "Ibrahim Mahama at daadgalerie". frieze. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
• Obuobi, Sharon (November 2018). "Conversation with Ibrahim Mahama". Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. 2018 (42–43): 284–289. doi:10.1215/10757163-7185941. ISSN 1075-7163.
• Powhida, William; Sawon, Magdalena (25 September 2015). "Artists Are Not Kale: A Gallery Management Guide's Many Failures". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
• Rea, Naomi (30 January 2018). "Belgium Has a Racist Monuments Problem Too—Here's How They're Dealing With It". Artnet News. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
• Ruiz, Cristina (28 February 2017). "Ibrahim Mahama presents a portrait of Ghana told through its objects". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
• Ruiz, Cristina (17 June 2016). "The art of Ghana". Financial Times. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
• Shaw, Anny (6 December 2017). "Early sale in Miami: Martin Margulies buys Ibrahim Mahama's installation". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 27 May 2019.