2019
Women in Triumph
A deeply personal body of work honouring the women whose care, sacrifice, and resilience shaped Benjamin Asante's life through absence, loss, and survival.
Studio of Benjamin Asante
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Benjamin Asante
Contemporary figurative painting shaped by yarn, stillness, and emotional restraint.
Accra, GhanaFigurative painting and yarn-based collage
Studio
A figurative practice shaped by yarn, restraint, and emotional refuge.
Benjamin Asante is a contemporary visual artist whose paintings and yarn-based collages consider how peace can be pursued within the tensions of ordinary life.
Benjamin Asante's practice is anchored in restraint. His figures do not perform emotion for the viewer; instead, they hold themselves with a measured interiority that asks for slower looking.
Series
Three series trace the practice from personal tribute to social observation and current sanctuary.
2021-2023
This Is Us
An empathetic body of work centred on individuals who are too quickly judged through dress, styling, piercings, vivid colour, and public self-presentation.
2025-present
Woven Sanctuaries
A current body of work staging music, leisure, romance, solitude, and social ritual as brief conditions of shelter.
Statement
Texts and statements
Exhibitions
Selected shows
2025
U.S. Debut
KEY Art + Design Fair
- Venue
- KEY Art + Design Fair
- Location
- Miami Beach, Florida, USA
- Focus
- Contemporary African diaspora art and design; artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas
- Type
- Art fair / exhibition
This presentation marked Benjamin Asante's U.S. debut.
2025
Curator's Cut
- Venue
- Defia Gallery
- Location
- Fayza Plaza Industrial Park, Oyarifa, Accra, Ghana
- Focus
- Emerging artists
- Type
- Group show
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