Isaac Azey

Isaac Azey

nnipa

bɔbeasu	male
din a wɔde ama no	Isaac
da a wɔwoo no	1968
n'adwuma	painter
has works in the collection	National Museum of World Cultures
copyright status as a creator	works protected by copyrights

Isaac Okyere Azey (Wɔwoo no afe 1968) yɛ mfoniniyɛfo a ofi mfinifini mantam mu wɔ Ghana.

Adwuma

Efi ne mmofraase no, Isaac Azey de ne ho ahyɛ mfoniniyɛ mu denneennen, ɔyɛɛ mfoninitwafo a wɔyɛ mfonini, ne aguadi ho nsɛnkyerɛnne a ɔyɛ. Isaac Azey gyee din esiane sɛnea ɔyɛɛ mfonini a ɛyɛ nokware ne amanaman ntam nnipa a wɔagye din mfonini a ɔde kaa ne nsɛnkyerɛnne ho ntɛm no nti. Wɔ 1981 mu, bere a na wadi mfe 13 no, Hip-Hop a na aba fofor wɔ Amerika, titiriw Afrikafo-Amerikafo amammerɛ, nyaa ne so nkɛntɛnso. Ne abɔnten so aguade ho dawurubɔ nsɛnkyerɛnne taa da amammerɛ mu mfonini yi adi.

Isaac Azey a ɔwɔ wiase nyinaa amammuisɛm ho ntease no de akokoduru, ahodwiriw, ne aseresɛm a ɛyɛ basabasa frafra wiase akannifo ho mfonini ahorow mu. N’adwinni, aho akokwaw wɔ mfiridwuma mu na ɛho hia wɔ abakɔsɛm mu no ma yenya wiase nyinaa nsɛm a esisi ho adwene a ɛfa amammerɛ ahorow ho.

Nneɛma a wɔde kyerɛ

2019-2020

Adeyɛ: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2014

Adeyɛ: Ghana Pop

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2013

Adeyɛ: Viva Mandela!

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2012

Adeyɛ: Michael Jackson in the After-Life: Praise Portraits and Commentary Paintings from Ghana

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2009

Adeyɛ: No This Is It: Michael Jackson, 25 Years of Praise Portraits

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

2007

Adeyɛ: Black Like We

Mfonni adwumakuw: Feldman-Horn Gallery, Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA

2003

Adeyɛ: Seven from Ghana

Mfonni adwumakuw: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT January 2003

2002

Adeyɛ: Kente: Wrapped in Pride

Mfonni adwumakuw: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

2001

Adeyɛ: Kente: Wrapped in Pride

Mfonni adwumakuw: The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Mfonni adwumakuw: The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois

2000

Adeyɛ: Kente: Wrapped in Pride

Mfonni adwumakuw: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan

Mfonni adwumakuw: The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska

Adeyɛ: AfricArts

Mfonni adwumakuw: Feldman-Horn Gallery, Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA

Adeyɛ: Four From Sub-Saharan Africa

Mfonni adwumakuw: Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA

1999

Adeyɛ: Kente: Solo Exhibition: “Isaac Azey: from Barber Boards to Praise Portraits and Commentary Paintings

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles

Adeyɛ: Africa Oceania Europe and Today

Mfonni adwumakuw: Feldman-Horn Gallery, Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA

Adeyɛ: Kente: Wrapped in Pride

Mfonni adwumakuw: National Museum of African Art and Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.

Adeyɛ: Kente: Wrapped in Pride

Mfonni adwumakuw: U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA

1998

Adeyɛ: Kente: African Hairways

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Adeyɛ: Bill and Nelson

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998

Adeyɛ: Kente: Beds Pots Signs and Doors

Mfonni adwumakuw: Ernie Wolfe Gallery. Los Angeles, CA

Nneɛma ahorow a wɔayi no adi

Wɔada Isaac Azey mfonini ahorow adi wɔ nhoma ahorow a agye din te sɛ "El Poder De Narrar" (1999) ne "Extreme Canvas: Hand Painted Movie Posters From Ghana" (2000) mu. Wɔde n'adwuma a "Cat on Hot Tin Roof" ka ho no kyerɛe wɔ New York Times Magazine mu wɔ afe 2003. "Power House '08" nyaa agyede wɔ Afrika Adwinni mu wɔ afe 2009. Wɔatwe adwene asi Azey ntoboa nso so wɔ "Extreme Canvas 2: Sika Mmere a Wɔde Nsa Ayɛ Sini Posters a Ɛfiri Ghana" (2012).