Larry Amponsah Ghana, b. 1989

Overview
Larry Amponsah
Larry Amponsah is a Ghanaian artist whose practice questions the orthodoxy of traditional approaches to image-making, unfolding the ways in which modes of production construct the contemporary politics of imagery. Intellectually trained as a painter, Amponsah creates collage paintings with archival images, objects, and stories sampled from various cultures to refigure systems of power while embracing new realities and new possibilities. He transforms prints and cuts into archival images, which are assembled in collages that are further worked upon using mechanical processes and his honed skills as a painter. In this succession of strategic moves about image-making techniques, dynamic compositions emerge, as well as compelling narratives or portraits that reference his own upbringing and culture within a global context.
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Biography
Larry Amponsah

Larry Amponsah is an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. He received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018, following studies at Jiangsu University, China, and a BFA from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. From 2018–2020, he served as a Trustee of the Kuenyehia Art Trust in Ghana. He was shortlisted for the Dentons Art Prize and Young Masters Art Prize in 2019 and received the Be Smart About Art Award the same year. His work is held in public and private collections including the Wellcome Collection, London.

 

Selected solo exhibitions include Mastery might be a long off, but the flow state induced by floristry is profoundly rewarding, Gallery 1957, Accra (2023); The Soil from which We Came, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2023); Genesis: The Plan & The Promise, The Breeder Gallery, Athens (2022); When A Stone Cracks We Don’t Stitch, 50 Golborne, London (2019); and Imaginary Direction of Time, The Fine Art Gallery, Colorado State University, USA (2018).

 

Recent group exhibitions include Top Charity Exhibition, Omenaa Art Foundation, Warsaw (2025); Constellations Part 1: Figures on Earth & Beyond, Gallery 1957, London (2024); Filling in the Pieces in Black, Saatchi Gallery, London (2023); The World Reimagined, London and Leeds (2022); and A Collective Intimacy, presented within Theaster Gates’s Black Image Corporation at 180 The Strand, London.

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