Residencies | Gallery 1957

CURRENT
Artists
Larry Amponsah
2023
Gallery 1957 is pleased to welcome Larry Amponsah to our residency program.

Larry Amponsah (b. 1989, Accra-Ghana) is a multimedia artist whose practice investigates traditional modes of image-making whilst employing unconventional strategies of production to look at the contemporary politics of imagery. Amponsah, traditionally trained as a painter, creates collages made of archival images, objects, and stories from various cultures in order to negotiate systems of power and create new ways of transcending boundaries. Amponsah transforms, prints and cuts into archival images, which he assembles in collages that are further worked upon using mechanical processes and his honed skills as a trained 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 West African upbringing within a greater global narrative.
Artists
Johanes Phokela
2002-3
Johannes Phokela (b. 1966, Soweto) is a South African artist currently living and working in Johannesburg. Phokela began his formal art career in 1984 at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Academy in Johannesburg, where he obtained a three-year diploma. In 1987, he relocated to London, where he completed a year-long foundation course at Central St. Martins: University of the Arts London before acquiring a bachelor’s degree at Camberwell College of Art: University of the Arts London (1988). He then completed a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art (1993) and remained in London until his permanent return to South Africa in 2006.
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Kelvin Haizel
2023

Kelvin Haizel (b. 1987, Accra, Ghana. Lives and works in Accra, Ghana)

Working in a variety of media that includes photography, painting and archival interventions, Kelvin Haizel investigates the ontological question - what is the object of an image? His practice combines personal inquiry and emergence as strategies of experimentation across time to comprehend the manufacturing of images. After a long hiatus from painting, the artist has returned to the medium to engage with a visual language that is abstract, yet materialist and fictional.

He is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Fine Art and Curatorial Practice, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He earned his MFA (2018) and his BFA in Painting and Sculpture (2010) from the same institution.
Past
- Artists
  Kwaku Yaro
- Famakan Magassa
  2023
- Artists
  Yaw Owusu
  2023
- Artists
  Priscilla Kennedy
  2023
- Artists
  Nana Bruce
  2023
- Artists
  Tegene Kunbi
  2023
- Artists
  Rita Mawuena Benissan
  2023
- Artists
  Godfried Donkor
  2023
- Daniel Arnan Quarshie
  2023
- Artists
  Tiffanie Delune
  2023
- Artists
  Johanes Phokela
  2022-23
- Wilfrid Timire
  October - December 2022
- Artists
  Chiderah Bosah
  August - November 2022
- Artists
  Jonathan Okoronkwo
  March - October 2022
- Artists
  Annan Affotey
  July - September 2022
- Artists
  Araba Opoku
  April - September 2022
- Artists
  Ametefey Kukubor
  May - July 2022
- Artists
  Boluwatife Oyediran
  May - July 2022
- Artists
  Lauren Pearce
- Artists
  Isshaq Ismail
  March - April 2022
- Artists
  Aplerh-Doku Borlabi
  December - May 2022
- Tjasa Rener
  March - April 2022
- Naila Opiangah
  March - May 2022
- Artists
  Nabeeha Mohamed
  December - February 2022
- Artists
  Juwon Aderemi
  December 2021 - Februrary 2022
- Artists
  Peter Ojingiri
  December 2021 - Februrary 2022
- Artists
  Kofi Awuyah
  November 2021 - January 2022
- Artists
  Kaloki Nyamai
  May - June 2021
- Artists
  Artsoul Kojo
  May - July 2021
- Artists
  Cornelius Annor
  March - May 2021
- Artists
  Afia Prempeh
  2021
- Artists
  Collin Sekajugo
  2021
- Artists
  Patrick Alston
  2021
- Artists
  Patrick Eugène
  2021
- Artists
  Kwesi Botchway
  2020
- Artists
  Amoako Boafo
  2019
- Artists
  Florine Demosthene
  2017

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