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Atta Kwami (George Atta Kwami) was born on 14 September, 1956 in Accra, Ghana, is an artist. Discover Atta Kwami's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?
| Popular As |
George Atta Kwami |
| Occupation |
Painter, printmaker, art historian and curator |
| Age |
65 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
| Born |
14 September, 1956 |
| Birthday |
14 September |
| Birthplace |
Accra, Ghana |
| Date of death |
October 06, 2021 |
| Died Place |
UK |
| Nationality |
Ghana |
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He is a member of famous artist with the age 65 years old group.
Atta Kwami Height, Weight & Measurements
At 65 years old, Atta Kwami height not available right now. We will update Atta Kwami's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Atta Kwami Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Atta Kwami worth at the age of 65 years old? Atta Kwami’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from Ghana. We have estimated
Atta Kwami's net worth
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
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| Source of Income |
artist |
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In 2021, he won the Maria Lassnig Prize from the Maria Lassnig Foundation in Vienna and the Serpentine Galleries in the UK.
He was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Michigan, Graduate School of Art & Design, in January 2011.
Kwami won the Janet L. Stanley Travel Award to attend the Fifteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art entitled "Africa and its Diasporas in the Market Place: Cultural Resources and the Global Economy" at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 23 to 26 March 2011.
Between 14 and 26 August 2011, he undertook the Howard Kestenbaum/Vijay Paramsothy International Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA.
Kwami also held the Philip L. Ravenhill Fellowship (UCLA) at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, from 1 March to 31 May 2010.
Kwami was awarded the title of 1st Thoyer Distinguished Visiting Scholar in New York University, New York, from 30 September to 8 October 2008.
In 1992, Kwami married Pamela Clarkson, a painter and printmaker who he had met in 1991 when she set up a printmaking studio at the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. They divided their time between Kumasi, Ghana, and Loughborough, United Kingdom.
Atta Kwami (14 September 1956 – 6 October 2021) was a Ghanaian painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator. He was educated and taught at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, and in the United Kingdom. He created works that improvise form and colour and speak to uniquely Ghanaian architecture and African strip-woven textiles, including those of the Kente, the Ewe and Asante of Ghana.
Born George Atta Kwami in 1956 in Accra to Robert Kwami, a music teacher, and prominent first generation Ghanaian contemporary artist Grace Kwami (nee Anku), he studied, and later taught, at the KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana. In 2007 he received a PhD in art history at the Open University for his work for contemporary Ghanaian artists, now published as Kumasi Realism, 1951–2007: An African Modernism (Hurst & Company, 2013).
