THE LOST ANCESTORS (16’, 2021), installation at The Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum, Montgomery, Alabama/USA. Collection of the Pulitzer Center for Education.
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a young Ghanaian sculptor whose work is deeply influenced by the transatlantic slave trade. Recently he received worldwide acclaim for his sculptures of enslaved Africans at the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Alabama, and he has garnered attention for his monumental art installation-in-progress, Nkyinkyim, on 200 acres of ancestral land in Ghana. In October 2019, in New York, he received Ghana’s highest artistic honor, the GUBA Influential Artist award.
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