About the Artist

Daniel Arnan Quarshie is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, installation, sculpture and sound. His practice emerged as an attempt to redefine drawing as a medium to parallel painting and sculpture. His work deals with social themes such as death, loss, absence, memory and the passage of time, and engages the politics of capitalism, labour, overconsumption and environmental degradation. He continuously challenges his medium by borrowing from the mundane to investigate composition, form, scale and display formats.

Born and raised in Ghana, Quarshie holds a BFA in Painting and Sculpture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, and is currently pursuing his MFA in the same department. Quarshie participated in “documenta fifteen” and “Gasthof22” as a representative of blaxTARLINES, Kumasi. He was a resident artist in Gallery 1957 from 2022 to 2023 and the first participant of “Frankfurt Moves!”, an artist exchange and residency programme initiated by KfW Stiftung in cooperation with Städelschule, Frankfurt, and in collaboration with KNUST, Kumasi (2023-2024). Quarshie has participated in group exhibitions such as “Unlimited”, 2022, Gallery 1957, Accra, “Unlimited II”, 2023, Gallery 1957, Accra, “Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking”, 2023, Amasaka Gallery, Masaka, and “The Dialogue”, ART X Lagos 2023, Lagos. His solo exhibitions include “Sympathetic Magic”, 2023, Gallery 1957, Accra and “Home”, 2023, Compound House Gallery, Kumasi.
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