Residencies | Gallery 1957

CURRENT
Artists
Tiffanie Delune
January - April 2023
Gallery 1957 is pleased to announce the representation of Tiffanie Delune.

Delune is a Paris-born visual artist of French, Belgo-Congolese heritage, living in Lisbon, Portugal. Delune’s multimedia practice, which includes multilayered pieces on cotton canvas, loose linen and works on paper, incorporates acrylic, oil pastels, papercuts, glitter and threads to explore childhood, memory and the magic of storytelling.

We look forward to holding a solo exhibition with her in 2023, in Accra.
Rita Mawuena Benissan
January - March 2023
Gallery 1957 welcomes Rita Benissan (b. 1995) to our residency program.

She is a Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist, born in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire and immigrated to the United States as a baby.

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Apparel and Textile Design from Michigan State University in 2017. She graduated in 2021 from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Master of Fine Arts in photography and an African Studies Program Certificate.

We look forward to her 2023 exhibition with the Gallery.
Daniel Arnan Quarshie
December 2022 - February 2023
Gallery 1957 is pleased to welcome Daniel Quarshie to our residency program.

Quarshie uses his artistic practice to redefine the drawing medium through charcoal on plywood, paper and canvas. He strives for the medium to be honoured with the same mastery as painting and sculpture. The artist explores memory and experience as a point of departure in engaging social and political themes.

The artist is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.

We look forward to his upcoming solo exhibition in March.
Artists
Godfried Donkor
September 2022 - April 2023
Godfried Donkor is a British-Ghanaian mixed-media artist interested in the socio-historical relationships of Africa and Europe. Born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1964, Donkor left at the age of eight, growing up mostly in England then living and studying in Spain from 1990-1992, before completing a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London and an MA in African Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.

Donkor's work is included in international collections such as: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Smithsonian Museum of African Art - Washington D.C; Studio Museum, Harlem; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Spanish Sports Council Collection; National Collection of Senegal; University of Helsinki; and National Gallery of Botswana.

He lives and works across London, UK and Accra, Ghana.
Artists
Johannes Phokela
June 2022 - January 2023
Gallery 1957 is ecstatic about hosting in its residency in Accra highly esteemed South African artist Johannes Phokela.

Artist and sculptor, Phokela (b. 1966, Soweto) currently lives and works in Johannesburg. He formally begun pursuing art at Johannesburg’s Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Academy in 1984 and concluded with a master’s degree from The Royal College of Art in London in 1993.

We eagerly await his solo exhibition with the Gallery later this year.
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