TAFA

Among his many awards, TAFA was named the America Sports Museums and Archives SPORT ARTIST OF THE YEAR in 2010. He has exhibited and has been collected in Europe, Japan, Canada, South America, Africa and the US.

TAFA explains: “My paintings are my drum song, my dance of the soul. I am like the divine drummer, 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. TAFA further elaborates, “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 collections including the Superior Court, Washington, D.C., Barclays Bank, Sparrow Hospital, Michigan, Carver Federal Bank, Danforth Museum, Shell Co, Ghana's National Museum and The United States Sports Academy.

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