Arthur Timothy Ghana, b. 1957

Arthur Timothy's solo exhibitions include: Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma), Gallery 1957, London, UK (2025); Postcards from a Promised Land, Gallery 1957, London (2022); Insight, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery - Insight (online) (2020); Grandma’s Hands, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2021), Curated by Ekow Eshun.

The artist’s group presentations include: Sunday Best: The Power and The Glory of Black Style, Curated by Dr. Julie Crooks and Dr. Jason Cyrus, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2026); Passage, Curated by Sarah Hachi-Duchene, UNX Gallery, Freetown, Sierra Leone (2026); The Clearing, Curated by Ekow Eshun, Space-Un gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2025); Keeping Time, Curated by Ekow Eshun and Karon Hepburn, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2024); In and Out of time, Gallery 1957, Curated by Ekow Eshun, Accra, Ghana (2023); UNLIMITED II, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA Miami, USA (2022); The Storytellers, Gallery 1957, London, UK (2022); [West] African Renaissance, Christies, Dubai, UAE (2021); Introducing Arthur Timothy + Juan Miguel Quiñones, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK (2020); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2019).

Timothy’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; The ICA Miami, USA; The Tia Collection, USA; The Dean Collection, USA; and other notable private collections. His drawings are retained in the V&A+ RIBA Drawings Collection, UK. He has been featured in a number of publications including: Apollo Magazine, Mission Magazine, The Art Newspaper, ArtNews, The Financial Times, FT ‘How to Spend It’ Magazine, Nataal Magazine, Something Curated, Forbes Magazine, GQ; and architectural publications including Architects Journal, Building, the Sunday Times and The Observer. Arthur Timothy has also been a guest on BBC Radio4’s ‘Saturday Live’.

Arthur Timothy was born in Accra, Ghana and spent his early childhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He attended Queen's College in Taunton, England before studying Architecture at The University of Sheffield and establishing his architectural practice, Timothy Associates, in 1986. After decades of practising as a RIBA chartered architect, Arthur embarked on his career as a painter in 2018/2019.