Farewell to Artist-in-Residence Yaw Owusu: Open Studio + Artist Talk

Photo: Tara Geyer

Join us in celebrating the completion of Yaw Owusu’s artist residency! See Yaw’s most recent works and hear him talk about his studio practice and time in Pittsburgh. You’re in for a real treat!

FREE with registration

Yaw Owusu (b. 1992, Kumasi, Ghana) is a visual artist who creates sculptural installations that repurpose found objects, shifting otherwise – worthless materials into encounters of value, and things of other realities. Using steel, gold, silver, copper and found objects in foils; sheets and coins – through activities of change and transformation; removal and attachment; and de-materializing. An approach rooted in a sense of playful alchemy that embraces the dynamics of currency, symbolism and meaning.

Owusu received his BFA in painting from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He is the recipient of the prestigious Kuenyehia Art Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art (2018) and the Pratt Circle Award and Outstanding Student Award (2020).  Owusu currently lives and works in New York and Accra.

Learn more about Yaw Owusu