TAFA

TAFA is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been exhibited and collected in Europe, Japan, Canada, South America, Africa and the US.

“My paintings are my drum song, my dance of the soul,”
“I am like the divine drummer,” says TAFA, “trying to materialize the transient, the spiritual, to search the soul of our hopes, fears and visions.”

This search sometimes births art that confronts and challenges or art that elevates and inspires. “ Creating art is a cosmological journey, it is mirrored in the experience of the collective consciousness of all who search for the truth. Delving into my being is not paramount, what is pivotal is reaching into the internal spaces that have created eternity of memory, our primordial memories.”

Numerous galleries, educational and cultural institutions in the US, Japan, Europe and Africa have collected and exhibited TAFA's paintings. His works are in many permanent public and private collections including the Superior Court, Washington, D.C, Barclays Bank, Sparrow Hospital, Michigan, Shell Co, Ghana's National Museum, Carver Federal Bank and former New York City Mayor, David N. Dinkins, Bryant Gumbel and the late Johnny Cochran.

TAFA obtained a BFA degree from the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He lives in Harlem.



TAFA Studios, 176E 106th St. 3 fl, Harlem, NY 10029, 917-518- 9970
tafatafa.com

Violin Frenzy
Drum Call
First Kiss
SELECTED SHOWS-TAFA

1999 - 2007 1995/94
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Afro-American Mueum, Boston
Atmosphere Gallery, SoHo, NY
Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ayaso Int. Fine Art, Washington D.C.
African American Museum, Dallas Texas
MoCADA , Brooklyn, NY
Moore's Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
National Black Fine Art Show, Chicago, 1996-06
Parliament Building, Hessen, Holland

1997-99

N. Carolina Central Univ., Art Museum, NC
Frontier Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Jazz Museum, SoHo, New York
Fort Frederik Museum, St Croix
L'Agent Art International, Montreal Canada
Hearne Gallery, Little Rock, AK
North Carolina A & T, Greensboro, NC
New World Art Center, SoHo, NYC
Thelma Harris Galleries, Oakland, CA
Mehu Gallery, New York, NY
Imarisha Art House, Brooklyn, NY
Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY

1997/1996

Liazan Gallery, NYC
L'ecrivain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Quiskeya Gallery, NYC
Crossroads Theater, New Brunswick, NJ
Contemp, Afri-Art Gallery, London, UK
17 West 121 Gallery, NYC
Ayaso Gallery, Washington, DC
Standard Bank
Mayor David Dinkins, NYC
African-American Institute, NYC
Howard University, Washington, DC
Pepsico Head Office, Rye, NY
Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY


TAFA Studios, 176E 106th St, Harlem, NY 10029

917-518- 9970

tafastudios@aol.com




BIBLIOGRAPHY


New York Newsday
New York Daily News
WCBSTV
Amsterdam News
Arts Journal
Denver Post
Herald Press
The Buffalo news
The American Daily
Contemporary Painter's News
Whittier Daily News
Centre Daily
Toronto star
West Africa Magazine
New Africa Magazine
Hyscience
The Ticker
Caribbean Sun

SELECTED SHOWS-TAFA

1995/94

African-American Institute, NYC
Parish Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Pepsico Head Office, Rye, NY
Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY
Lamu Gallery, NYC
L'ecrivain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY



1993/1992

Boniface Gallery, NYC
Yeshiva University, NYC
Shell Head Office, Accra, Ghana
Fort Frederik Museum, St Croix
Novotel, Accra, Ghana


1990/1987
Camden Center, London, UK
Black Arts Gallery, London, UK
Great Hall, Kumasi, Ghana

Selected Collections

Carver Federal Bank, NYC
National Museum, Ghana
Johnny Cochran
D.C. Superior Court, Washington, DC
Bryant Gumbel
Barclays Bank
Standard Bank
Mayor David Dinkins, NYC

Awards1995/1994 African-American Institute, NYC
Circle of Art, New York, NY, 2000
Paa Kwame, Ghana, 1991
Swiss Painting Competition, 1st Prize, 1989


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