Vincent Frimpong is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. He holds a B.A. in Industrial Arts (Ceramics option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He was a teaching assistant in the Ceramic Section of the Department of Industrial Art, KNUST. His works are shown in multiple exhibitions, including Our Art, Our Time, Our Region in Walton Art Center Fayetteville, AR, Figure Grounded in Birmingham, AL, and recently had a solo show; I grew up with little at the pH Gallery in West Fork, AR. Most recently he was awarded The Consortium for Intercollegiate Research in the Ceramic Arts (C.I.R.C.A) and Midsouth Dianne Komminsk sculpture winner, and the 2023 The Medium (CACHE)- Creative Exchange Fund (CXF) MARs Award Recipient. He received the 2022 Zenobia award from Watershed in Maine, the 2022 Windgate University Fellowship Awardee for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Maxwell-Hanrahan Haystack Recipient for the 2023 Fellowship, John Glick Penland School of Craft Scholarship 2023, and the Creative Exchange fund Grant from Art Ventures Gallery. Vincent is a third-year, MFA candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Arkansas School of Art.
Vincent Frimpong
Weight Of Liberty
Stoneware, metal, 1908 Scale
“Throughout my life, I’ve been exploring the question, ‘What does it mean to be an African?’ Affirming the core of African power within myself and others permeates everything I do and represent. My objects and installations at once draw upon my history and simultaneously comment on the present. I have embraced mixed-media processes to express and explore ideas regarding the richness of African history and pressing contemporary concerns addressing where we come from, where we are, and where we are going. I use mixed-media installation to create a space that allows for open dialogue between the audience and the space, utilizing some elements of Ghanaian culture and the human hand as a tool to explore the idea of what it means to be an African.
I desire to make sculptural installations that communicate ideas to make viewers recognize that what people think they know is not always the whole truth.”
— Vincent Frimpong
About the artist
Vincent Frimpong
American
Vincent Frimpong is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. He holds a B.A. in Industrial Arts (Ceramics option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He was a teaching assistant in the Ceramic Section of the Department of Industrial Art, KNUST. His works are shown in multiple exhibitions, including Our Art, Our Time, Our Region in Walton Art Center Fayetteville, AR, Figure Grounded in Birmingham, AL, and recently had a solo show; I grew up with little at the pH Gallery in West Fork, AR. Most recently he was awarded The Consortium for Intercollegiate Research in the Ceramic Arts (C.I.R.C.A) and Midsouth Dianne Komminsk sculpture winner, and the 2023 The Medium (CACHE)- Creative Exchange Fund (CXF) MARs Award Recipient. He received the 2022 Zenobia award from Watershed in Maine, the 2022 Windgate University Fellowship Awardee for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Maxwell-Hanrahan Haystack Recipient for the 2023 Fellowship, John Glick Penland School of Craft Scholarship 2023, and the Creative Exchange fund Grant from Art Ventures Gallery. Vincent is a third-year, MFA candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Arkansas School of Art.
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