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Issa Samb (1945–2017; also known as Joe Ouakam) painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright, poet; Younousse Sèye (born 1940) mixed media artist, actress; described as "Senegal's first woman painter" Ousmane Sow (1935–2016) sculptor; Oumou Sy (born 1952) fashion designer
The Othello paintings depict a sequence of figural images with oil and acrylic on canvases and paperboards ranging in size from 30×40 inches (102×76 cm) to 120×216 inches (300×550 cm). [2] The overtones are often conveyed with wide-rugged brushstrokes of black against a red background with areas of orange and yellow, and with figures and ...
Ghana is most famous for creating the most famous African expressions and works. These works range from wood carvings to brass works, figures, and even gems. Kente fabric from Ghana. A Kente is a traditional, multi-coloured, hand-woven, quilted cloth. It is also a sort of silk and cotton texture made of interlaced cloth strips.
Cephas Yao Agbemenu (born 1951), sculptor and a traditional African wood carver, educator; Joseph Kossivi Ahiator (born 1956), painter and voodoo artist; Bernard Akoi-Jackson (born 1979), installation artist, performance artist, video artist, photographer, dancer, poet, and academic; Kwame Akoto (born 1950), painter
In 2004, the South African Government awarded Pemba with The Order of Ikhamanga in Gold posthumously for his contribution to art and literature. In 2012, on the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, the South African Post Office released a set of 10 commemorative stamps featuring some of Pemba’s best-known artworks. 300 000 miniature stamp ...
Her works often focus on important women from history, as shown in her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” which represents 39 significant figures in the history of women artists (The ...
Barry Hilton (born 1956), South African comedian and actor who was born in Harare; Kudzanai-Violet Hwami (born 1993), Zimbabwean painter who lives in London, England; Masimba Hwati, sculptor, performance artist, sound artist, and three-dimensional mixed media sculptor
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...