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Samuel Opoku
Ghana

2004 Sansa Workshop

CURRICULUM VITAE

SAMUEL OPOKU (SCULPTOR/LECTURER) BA ART, MFA SCULPTURE

ADDRESS
COLLEGE OF ART AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KNUST)
KUMASI
GHANA
TEL- +233-51- 62147/8
CELL- +233-277-400-615
E-MAIL- sopoku.art@knust.edu.gh

DATE OF BIRTH: 18TH MAY, 1969

TOWN AND COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: KOKOFU, ASHANTI REGION-GHANA

MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATES
1998-2000 MASTER OF FINE ARTS (MFA-SCULPTURE    KNUST, KUMASI
1992-1997 BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA (HONS) ART) KNUST,
KUMASI
1988-1990 ADVANCED LEVEL CERTIFICATE (WAEC) TECHNOLOGY SECONDARY SCHOOL, KNUST, KUMASI GHANA
1983-1988 ORDINARY LEVEL CERTIFICATE (WAEC) KONONGO ODUMASI SECONDARY SCHOOL, KONONGO ASHANTI, GHANA
1975-1982 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, ADUM PRESBY PRIMARY/BOYS MIDDLE SCHOOL, ADUM, KUMASI GHANA

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTS/ JOB EXPERIENCES
1991 NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME-ADABIYYA ISLAMIC JSS
TEACHER
1998 NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME, KNUST, TEACHING ASSISTANT
2001 SCULPTURE SECTION, COLLEGE OF ART, KNUST
DEMONSTRATOR
2002 SCULPTURE SECTION, COLLEGE OF ART, KNUST
TEACHING ASSISTANT

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2002 FACULTY OF FINE ART, COLLEGE OF ART AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, KNUST LECTURER

EXHIBITIONS
2004 12 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF GHANA, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
2004 12 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF GHANA, ARTISTS' ALLIANCE, ACCRA, GHANA
2004 SANSA INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' WORKSHOP EXHIBITION, ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, KUMASI
2004 SANSA INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' WORKSHOP EXHIBITION, ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, ACCRA
2003 SIGNATURES ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, KUMASI, GHANA
2002 ADINKRA VALUES IN STONES GHANA HIGH COMMISSION CHANCERY, HARARE, ZIMBABWE
2001 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION, COLLEGE OF ART, KNUST, KUMASI GHANA
2000 BERTRAND AND FRIENDS COLLEGE OF ART, KNUST, KUMASI GHANA
1997 PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL EXHIBITION, CAPE COAST GHANA

WORKSHOPS
SANSA INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' WORKSHOP 2004

AWARDS
2000 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION AWARDS IN ARTS AND CRAFTS

RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP IN ARTS AND CRAFTS , CHAPUNGU SCULPTURE PARK, HARARE, ZIMBABWE

REFEREES
BEN OFFEI-NYAKO
PROF H. B. ATO DELAQUIS
COLLEGE OF ART AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES
KNUST-KUMASI
GHANA

About SaNsA
Just as it means in Ghanaian dilect, Sansa International Artists' Workshop, taking the place of the sansa cloth, is a brewing pot of different artists, artistic cultures and traditions, styles and philosophies sewn together. Like the different pieces that make up the full cloth, the artists, styles, ideas and environment thus created by their combinations produced artistic incubator needed for a creative journey of our times.

Statement
Being a member of a wider society, my work expresses my people in a universal sense - who we are, our material and spiritual dispositions, our tangible and intangible cultural heritages, our hopes and aspirations, our light and dark sides, our past experiences and future developments. My work expresses the ordinary people with whom I share my everyday, as well as those in higher positions, whose actions and decisions affect us.

SaNsA International Artists' Workshop 2004, with all the international artists (participants), brought direct, new ideas and philosophies, that, as individuals and artists, would have taken a longer time to decipher and assimilate artistically in our environments alone. Placing the workshop in the futuristic developmental aspect of my art, the influence my participation gained and gave, were not wholly altering, but for greaterartistic development.

Samuel Opoku (Zin)

Samuel Opoku at work 2004

Untitled 2004