biography / bibliography
PHILIP KWAME APAGYA
Born in 1958, Sekondi, Ghana.
Lives and works in Shama, Ghana
EDUCATION
1982
B.A. Photojournalism, Ghana Institute of Journalism, Accra
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Rena Branston Gallery, San Francisco
2004
Recent Photographs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2003
Philip Kwame Apagya, Galerie Stähli, Zürich, Germany
2002
Philip Kwame Apagya, Galerie Schuebbe, Düsseldorf, Germany
Apagya Portraits, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth
Berlin Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Goethe-Institut, Accra and Ghana National Museum, Accra
Philip Kwame Apagya, Alliance Francaise, Bahia
2000
Philip Kwame Apagya Portraits, Galerie Forma Libera, Turin, Italy
Philip Kwame Apagya, Disegni Animati, Galerie Louisa delle Piane, Mailand
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Manifest, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
2006
The Whole World is Rotten, The Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Joint Venture, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2005
Earth and Memory: African and African-American Photograph, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2004
Horizons, Voices from Global Africa, Museum of World Culture, Sweden
Manufactured Self, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, MO
African Art, African Voices, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
When?, Clifford Chance, New York, NY
Staged Realities: The Studio in African Photography 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2003
Philip Kwame Apagya, Freiburger Film Forum
In faccia al mondo - il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico, Museo d’arte contemporaneo di Villa Croce, Genova
The Office, The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The Public View, Pentagram, London, United Kingdom
2002
Flash Afrique, Düsseldorf, Kunstforum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
IbridAAfricA, hybrid Africa, Cagliari Lazzaretto Sant’Elia
NoBorder, Museo della città di Ravenna
2001
Flash Afrique, Wien, Kunsthalle Wien
The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color photography award winners 2000, Boston University
The Vibrant Art of Ghana, Den Haag
Philip Kwame Apagya. Photographer of imagined worlds. Gemeene Museum The Hague
Abbild/Depiction, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
2000
Porträt Afrika, Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Expressions africaines, Rennes, Frankreich, Maison International
African Photographers, Antwerpen, 51 Art Gallery - Roger Smulewizc
Snap me one! Studio Photographers in Africa, Amsterdam, Tropenmuseum
Africainside, Groningen, Fries Museum, Noorderlicht-Festival
1999
Africa by Africa. A photographic View, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Snap me one! Studiofotografen in Afrika, Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg and Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth
Magazin Photo Nacht, Züricher Tagesanzeiger Xtra-Limmat-Haus, Zürich
Retour de Bamako, Galleries FNAC, Paris and Galleries FNAC, Barcelona, Spain
Fiera di Venezia, Venedig, Alliance Francaise
Fiesta du Sud, Single Exhibit, Marseille, France
Festival des trois continents, , Nantes, Frankreich
1998
Snap me one! Studiofotografen Afrika, München, Münchner Stadtmuseum
3émes Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako, Mali
1997
Das Gesicht Afrikas, Hamburg, Pressehaus Geo Gruner + Jahr
AWARDS
2000
Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award 1999-2000. The Photographic Resource Centre at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Gianni Pavesi Collection, Turin, Italy
Pigozzi Collection, Genf
Oetker Collection, Berlin, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Collections continued...
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Business School, New York, NY