About the Artist
Samuel Baah Kortey
Samuel Baah Kortey | Accra, Ghana
Samuel Baah Kortey is a multi-sensory artist, thinker, and visual researcher from Ghana.
His source materials start with historical archives, daily happenings, and moments
referencing death, decay, and struggles, which carefully materialize into objects or
thought-provoking adventures. As an observationist, Samuel investigates and
highlights post-colonial traces of modern societies' ways of life through documentation
of the mundane, recordings, and access to the street visual culture of cities.
Samuel Baah Kortey has a BFA and MFA from the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (2013 – 2022) in Kumasi - Ghana. In early 2023, he graduated
from Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Fine Art (Klasse de Willem de Rooij),
Frankfurt, Germany. His installations have explored, archived, and examined the hyper-
visible expressions that characterize cities, particularly in Kumasi, where he lives and
works. The artist is a member of three collectives, blaxTARLINES and Commune6x3, and
a co-founder of the Asafo Black Collective. He has shown in the 2020 Stellenbosch
Triennial and the 2022 Documenta 15 with his collectives Asafo Black and blaxTARLINES
Kumasi collective, respectively. He was one of the 2023 Villa Romana fellows in Florence,
Italy.
