Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker.

Writing

Her first novel will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2017.[1]

Art history

She is the founder and director of the cultural research organisation, ANO, in Ghana.[2] After writing extensively on contemporary African arts and creating numerous research and exhibition projects internationally, she established ANO as a permanent centre in Ghana in 2012.[3][4] In 2016, she created the online version of the pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia, "a large-scale documentation and archive project, dedicated to the re/ordering of knowledge, narratives and representations from and about the African continent".[5][6][7][8][9]

Exhibitions she has curated include the first exhibition in London of photographs by James Barnor at Black Cultural Archives during the "Ghana at 50" jubilee season in 2007,[10][11] and, more recently, Serge Attukwei Clottey's My Mother’s Wardrobe at Accra's Gallery 1957 in 2016.[12][13][14][15]As creative director of various institutions in Accra, she is helping to build Ghana's cultural infrastructure.[16][17][18]

Films

She became a filmmaker after working with economist Thi Minh Ngo and filmmaker Chris Marker on a new translation of his 1954 film Les Statues Meurent Aussi.[19] Her films, which often have cultural themes, are a cross of fiction, travel essay, and documentary.[20][21][22]

Awards and honours

She is the recipient of the 2015 Art & Technology Award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)[23] and of the 2016 AIR Award, which “seeks to honour and celebrate extraordinary African artists who are committed to producing provocative, innovative and socially-engaging work”.[24][25]

She was named by The Africa Report as one of 50 African Trailblazers [26] and by Okayafrica as one of 12 African women making history.[27]

She has sat on the juries of the Kuenyehia Prize for Arts and the TURN Award.[28]

References

  1. ↑ IAM TEAM "I Am…Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Creative Director – Ghana", Intense Art Magazine, 18 March, 2016.
  2. ↑ Korantemaa Larbi, "Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Cultural Historian, Writer & Filmmaker", Design233, 23 August 2013.
  3. ↑ Houghton Kinsman, "Breaking down artistic barriers in Ghana", Another Africa, 31 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Nyaguthii Maina, "Art and its role in telling personal, family and collective histories", LSE Blog, 4 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Johannes Preuss, "A Digital Narrative", Digital Development Debates, Issue 14.
  6. ↑ Dianne Brownwell,"Technology Expands the World for African Artists", The New York Times, 24 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Billie Adwoa McTernan, "Oforiatta-Ayim and Ghana's map of cultural thinkers", The Africa Report.
  8. ↑ Nana Oforiatta Ayim, "A Cultural Encyclopaedia", Kaleidoscope, Issue 15.
  9. ↑ Alice McCool, "Historian Launches 'Living History Hubs' in Ghana", The Creators Project, 9 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "James Barnor: 'My advice to young photographers: fall in love with books'", Photobook Bristol, 9 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Black Cultural Archives Launches Exciting Heritage Programme to Commemorate Ghana's Golden Jubilee", Community Archives and Heritage Group, 7 March 2007.
  12. ↑ Alice McCool, "Inside Accra’s Fresh New Art Gallery, Opening This Ghanaian Independence Day", Okayafrica, 26 February 2016.
  13. ↑ Arielle Bier, "Serge Attukwei Clottey: In Conversation With Arielle Bier", SFAQ, 18 March 2016.
  14. ↑ Korantemaa Larbi, "Gallery 1957", Design233, 12 April 2016.
  15. ↑ Natalie Hegert, "Can a Local Commercial Gallery Make a Difference For Artists in Ghana", Huffington Post, 31 March 2016.
  16. ↑ Cristina Ruiz, "The art of Ghana", The Financial Times, 17 June 2016.
  17. ↑ Claude Grunitzky, "Meet the team behind Gallery 1957", True Africa, 10 June 2016
  18. ↑ Lily le Brun, "Textiles and West African culture", The Financial Times, 24 June 2016.
  19. ↑ Ric Bower, "Up Through The Cracks", Culture Colony Quarterly Magazine, pp. 30–33.
  20. ↑ Orlando Reade, "The Ungovernables", Africa is a Country, 13 February 2012.
  21. ↑ "A Shred of Identity", Sophie Hunter Central, 11 September 2015.
  22. ↑ Adam Kleinman, "Someone’s been sleeping in my bed: a mystery", B-Post.
  23. ↑ Amy McCabe Heibel, "Eight Artists Receive Art + Technology Lab Grants", LACMA Unframed, 10 June 2015.
  24. ↑ Abdi Ali, "Artists in Residency 2015 Winners Announced", ArtMattersInfo, 15 February 2016.
  25. ↑ Jennifer Platt, "Winners of The 2015 Artists in Residency Programme Announced", Sunday Times Books Live, 15 February 2016.
  26. ↑ Portia Arthur, "Yvonne Nelson named in Africa's 'top 50 trailblazers", Pulse Ghana, 8 March 2015.
  27. ↑ "The Creative Brains Behind Accra’s Fresh New Art Space, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim", Okayafrica, 8 March 2016.
  28. ↑ "Prof El Anatsui arrives for 2016 Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art Final Awards", Ghana Web, 13 April 2016.
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