Almighty God
BORN 1950, KUMASI, GHANA
EXHIBITONS:
1990: “Africa Explores”, Susan Vogel, The Center for African Art, New York
2000: Plazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy
2003: Seven from Ghana, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT January 2003
2003: Rocca di Umertide, Italy
2003: “Hairstyles and Headdresses, Musee Dapper, Paris, France
2004: Camera dei Deputati, Rome, Italy
2005: Creative Art, Kumasi, Ghana
2006: Solo show, Alliance Française, Accra, Ghana
2006: Castel dell’Ovo, Napoli, Italy
2007: “Black Like We”, Feldman-Horn Gallery, Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA
2007: Studio Brescia, Ospitaletto, Italy
2009: “Out of Africa: Obama and McCain Praise Portraits and Visual Narratives”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles; Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times on May 21, 1999, by art critic David Pagel
2009: “No This Is It: Michael Jackson, 25 Years of Praise Portraits”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles
2012: “Michael Jackson in the After-Life: Praise Portraits and Commentary Paintings from Ghana”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles
2013: “Viva Mandela!”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles
2014: “Ghana Pop”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 – 2020, Praise Portraits from Ghana: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 - 2022: “How Do You See This World?: The Art of Almighty God, Fowler Museum of Cultural, UCLA, Los Angeles
2022: “The Artworks of Almighty God”, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS:
1996: Contemporary Art of Africa, Andre Magnin
2003: Hairstyles and Headdresses, Musee Dapper, Paris, France
2009: “The Radiance of the King”, Don Cosentino, African Arts, Volume 42, number 3, 20, Autumn 2009
2012: Extreme Canvas: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, Ernie Wolfe III, Kesho Malaika Press, 2012
2014: “The Art of Almighty God: in His Own Words”, Doran Henry Ross, African Arts 47, pages 14 – 33
2014: “Artists Portfolio: Almighty God Says Stop Smoking”, Doran H. Ross, African Arts, Autumn 2014, volume Number 3, pages 66 - 75
COLLECTIONS:
The British Museum, London, UK
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Instutution, Washington, D.C.
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Pigozzi Collection of Contemporary African Art,
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL