Kwabena Fordjour Ghanaian , b. 1990

Kwabena Fordjour (born in 1990 in Accra, Ghana) is an artist who currently resides at La in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.  His work is based on the Transportation Culture of his people, and how many aspects of it affect the use of time, individual productivity, and the economic state of his country Ghana. He explores various episodes of transportation queue systems, monologues, dialogues, and interactions between human beings expressed in the motion of vehicles to narrate stories of the ordinary Ghanaian’s use of time, as he/she commutes from one location to another. He draws inspiration from commuting, vehicular motions, and human attitudes. His acrylic vibrant color dab and patch technique works are inspired by great masters like Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet. He first graduated with a Higher National Diploma in Commercial Art from the

Takoradi Technical University in 2011 and later pursued a Bachelor of Art Education at the University of Education, Winneba, and graduated in 2015. The artist now lives and works from his home studio at La in Accra, and manages an art and skill learning studio that is open to the public, where he nurtures the creative abilities of both children and adults.  He also works as a part-time tutor in Creative Art and Illustration and Child Bilingual Institute and Gensheila Fashion Academy, both in Accra. His most recent group exhibition was The Beautiful Nonsense which took place at the Ghana National Museum in November 2023 in Accra. Some notable art events he participated in are The Creative Arts Show – 2015, 2017, and 2018, and the Black Art Street Festival – 2016, 2017, and 2018. He also collaborated with Little Big Souls for the Art for Preemies Charitable Auction held at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in 2018.