Philip Kwame Apagya

Philip Kwame Apagya (born 1958) is a Ghanaian photographer who specialises in colour studio portraits against painted backdrops.[1] He lives and works in Shama, Ghana.[2]

Life and career

Born in Sekondi, Apagya was the son of a photographer, and apprenticed in his father's studio as a boy. He studied photojournalism at the Accra School of Journalism before opening his own studio in Shama, on Ghana's west coast, in 1982.[3] He is known today for his studio portraits made using brightly colored backdrops.[4]

Apagya's work is in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi.[5]

Philip Kwame Apagya's works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Sheldon Art Galleries in Nebraska, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to name a few. His photographs are in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Philip Kwame Apagya is represented by Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp, Belgium.[6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2004 Recent Photographs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

2003 Philip Kwame Apagya, Galerie Stähli, Zürich, Germany

2002 Philip Kwame Apagya, Galerie Schuebbe, Düsseldorf, Germany Apagya Portraits, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth Berlin Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Goethe-Institut, Accra and Ghana National Museum, Accra Philip Kwame Apagya, Alliance Francaise, Bahia

2000 Philip Kwame Apagya Portraits, Galerie Forma Libera, Turin, Italy Philip Kwame Apagya, Disegni Animati, Galerie Louisa delle Piane, Mailand

Group exhibitions

2011 Breaking News - Fotografia contemporanea da Medio Oriente e Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, Modena, Italy

2007 Manifest, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

2006 The Whole World is Rotten, The Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Joint Venture, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

2005 Earth and Memory: African and African-American Photograph, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

2005 Arts of Africa, The Contemporary African Art Collection, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, France

2005 African Art Now : Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Art Houston, USA

2004 Horizons, Voices from Global Africa, Museum of World Culture, Sweden Manufactured Self, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, MO African Art, African Voices, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA When?, Clifford Chance, New York, NY Staged Realities: The Studio in African Photography 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa

2003 Philip Kwame Apagya, Freiburger Film Forum In faccia al mondo - il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico, Museo d’arte contemporaneo di Villa Croce, Genova The Office, The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom The Public View, Pentagram, London, United Kingdom

2002 Flash Afrique, Düsseldorf, Kunstforum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany IbridAAfricA, hybrid Africa, Cagliari Lazzaretto Sant’Elia NoBorder, Museo della città di Ravenna

2001 Flash Afrique, Wien, Kunsthalle Wien The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color photography award winners 2000, Boston University The Vibrant Art of Ghana, Den Haag Philip Kwame Apagya. Photographer of imagined worlds. Gemeene Museum The Hague Abbild/Depiction, Steirischer Herbst, Graz

2000 "Porträt Afrika", Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin "Expressions africaines", Rennes, Frankreich, Maison International "African Photographers", Antwerpen, 51 Art Gallery - Roger Smulewizc "Snap me one!" Studio Photographers in Africa, Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum "Africainside", Groningen, Fries Museum, Noorderlicht-Festival

1999 "Africa by Africa. A photographic View", Barbican Art Gallery, London "Snap me one!" Studiofotografen in Afrika, Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg and Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth Magazin Photo Nacht, Züricher Tagesanzeiger Xtra-Limmat-Haus, Zürich Retour de Bamako, Galleries FNAC, Paris and Galleries FNAC, Barcelona, Spain Fiera di Venezia, Venedig, Alliance Francaise Fiesta du Sud, Single Exhibit, Marseille, France Festival des trois continents, Nantes, Frankreich

1998 "Snap me one!" Studiofotografen Afrika, München, Münchner Stadtmuseum 3émes Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako, Mali

1997 Das Gesicht Afrikas, Hamburg, Pressehaus Geo Gruner + Jahr

References

  1. ↑ "Philip K. Apagya: Aspirational backgrounds in studio portraiture", Luminous-Lint.
  2. ↑ Philip Kwame Apagya biography, Contemporary African Art Collection.
  3. ↑ "Philip Kwame Apagya" bio, the National Museum of African Art.
  4. ↑ Amy Griffin, "Exhibition offers a fresh, complex view of Africa", Times Union, 6 April 2012.
  5. ↑ Contemporary African Art Collection by Jean Pigozzi/
  6. ↑ Philip K. Apagya page at Fifty One.
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