Amoako Boafo Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1984 -

Boafo was born in Accra, Ghana in 1984. He studied art at the Ghanatt College of Art and Design before following artist and curator Sunanda Mesquita, now his wife, to Vienna in 2014, where he is pursuing an MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He gathered acclaim in Austria, winning the 2017 Walter Koschatzky Art Prize for works on paper by artists under 35, and the 2019 STRABAG Artaward International for artists under 40.

Boafo has developed a distinct style, using his fingertips to paint portraits of black men and women who, he told Culture Type, 'I find strength in—how they celebrate [and] live their blackness'.