Ibrahim Mahama (artist)
Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian author and an artist of monumental installations.
He lives and works in Tamale, Ghana. His work was shown during the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Italy All The World’s Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2015.
As part of his contribution to the development of Africa through art, Ibrahim was named the 73rd most influential African by theafricareport.com in the list of 100 most influential Africans 2019/2020
In 2019, he started the Savannah Center for Contemporary Art, Tamale.
Ibrahim Mahama repurposed 120 scratched second-class train seats through a parliament he calls the "parliament of ghost", a replica of Ghana's parliament chamber. The parliament of ghost was installed at the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester.
Education
He obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture in 2013 and a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Painting in 2010 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.Exhibitions
| EXHIBITION | YEAR | LOCATION | COUNTRY |
| Documenta 14 | 2017 | Athens kassel | GREECE GERMANY |
| Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK. All The World's Futures, Arsenale, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Pangaea II New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery Edson Chagas / Ibrahim Mahama Material Effects Silence between the Lines: Anagrams of emancipated Futures, K.N.U.S.T, Jackson,, Ghana. | 2015 | London Biennale de venezia Saatachi Gallery,London Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University, Michigan Contemporary Art Centre | UK ITALY UK ITALY USA GHANA |
| Pangaea New Art from Africa and Latin America | 2014 | Saatchi Gallery, London | UK |
| Masked and Unmasked | Dak’Art OFF, Saint Louis | SENEGAL | |
| The Divine Comedy | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt | GERMANY | |
| Illumination, Installation | 2011 | K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi | GHANA |
| Hatching Out | 2009 | K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi | GHANA |