Artists
John Akomfrah
- Born 1957 in Accra, Ghana. Based in London, UK.
John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics, and often explore the experiences of migrant diasporas globally. Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which he started in London in 1982 with artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul who he still collaborates with today alongside Ashitey Akomfrah as Smoking Dogs Films. Akomfrah has achieved international recognition for a multi-layered visual style combining archive footage, still photos, newly shot material and newsreel in groundbreaking multi-channel film installations.
- Selected exhibitions
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- 2024
- 60th Venice Biennale, British Pavilion (Italy)
- 2023–24
- Solo exhibition, A Space of Empathy, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Germany)
- 2023
- Solo exhibition, Five Murmurations, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (Washington D.C., USA)
- 2023–24
- Solo exhibition, Arcadia, The Box (Plymouth, UK)
- 2022–24
- Solo exhibition, John Akomfrah: Purple, Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C., USA)
- “Vertigo Sea” 2015
- © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy of Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery.