About Kofi Dawson
Lived 1940 – 2021 (aged 80–81). Kofi Dawson was a Ghanaian artist.
Galle Winston Kofi Dawson (1940–2021), was a Ghanaian modernist visual artist. His range of works included paintings, sculptures, texts, drawings, printmaking, and installation art.
Early life and education Dawson was one of the thirteen children of Ghanaian architect Wilberforce David Kwami Dawson and Evelyn Esi Dawson. He attended Mawuli School in Ho for his secondary school education. Before Mawuli, he attended O'Reilly School and Bana Hill Presbyterian Boys Boarding School. One of his art teachers at Mawuli School was Grace Kwami Dawson was the subject of a large retrospective at the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama initiated Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selected) Galle Winston Kofi Dawson: In Pursuit of something ‘Beautiful’, perhaps…” curated by Bernard Akoi-Jackson Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (2019)
Nutata: drawings by GWK Dawson’ Nubuke Foundation, Accra (2009)
Group exhibitions (selected) World Mini-Print Annual Lessedra Bulgaria (2006)
Made in Africa Diaspora Conference, UK (2006)
Origin Sankofa Dubois Museum, Accra (2005)
7th Triennale Mondial de liestampe petit format Chamalers, France (2005)
Death Dawson died in 2021 after a short period of sickness.
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Who was Kofi Dawson?
Ghanaian modernist artist (1940–2021)
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Kofi Dawson was born in 1940.
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Kofi Dawson died in 2021.
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Kofi Dawson was an artist.
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Kofi Dawson was Ghanaian.
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