Amina Toure-K.
Selected Works
Ramadhan
2022oil and acrylic on canvas
139 × 192.3 cm (54 ¾ × 75 ¾ inches)
The bathroom salon
2021oil and acrylic on canvas
121.2 × 107.5 cm (47 ¾ × 42 ⅜ inches)
Mama, where are you?
2022Oil, acrylic and image transfer on canvas
99.6 × 122.9 cm (39 ¼ × 48 ⅜ inches)
For the love of Ataya
2021oil and acrylic on canvas
146.2 × 181.8 cm (57 ½ × 71 ⅝ inches)
Making Home
2022oil on canvas
147.5 × 108.2 cm (58 ⅛ × 42 ⅝ inches)
Game night
2022oil on canvas
164.4 × 184.6 cm (64 ¾ × 72 ⅝ inches)
Baby Anaya
2022oil on canvas
164.2 × 164.2 cm (64 ⅝ × 64 ⅝ inches)
A traveler’s dilemma
2022oil and image transfer on canvas
86.2 × 62.4 cm (33 ⅞ × 24 ⅝ inches)
Behind the scenes
2022oil and acrylic on canvas
97.2 × 79.5 cm (38 ¼ × 31 ¼ inches)
Aunty Cece
2022oil on canvas
152.4 × 96.5 cm (60 × 38 inches)
Harry the barber
2022oil on canvas
244 × 183 cm (96 ⅛ × 72 inches)
Biography
Born in Accra in 1990, Ghana, Amina Toure-K currently lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Ohio University. Amina Toure-K.’s work is grounded in community engagements as she is fascinated by human interactions and relationships. She seeks to explore and visually represent stories around the coping behaviors of African diaspora populations in the United States. She paints people from her local African immigrant communities in Athens and Columbus as she seeks to shed light on their efforts to create a sense of home and belonging in their new environments. African immigrants share a common reality – a struggle to navigate and come to terms with complex novel cultures and traditions in their host environments. Amina Toure-K. follows the journey of African immigrant communities, from which she’s also part of, as they make efforts to create a sense of home and belonging for themselves in foreign spaces. While struggling to take on new identities to fit into unknown environments, they also have to deal with challenges resulting from separation from familiar cultures and the loss of reliable support systems. Through her work, the artist portrays different aspects of immigrant’s everyday lives as they engage in ordinary activities and establish rituals adopted from their respective countries in order to stay connected to their roots.
Amina works primarily with oils, and acrylics which occasionally employs image transfers and collages which she uses a language to render her ideas and enhance her narrative.
Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Press
19.01.2023
ARTRIBUNE
Dipingere gli effetti della diaspora africana. Intervista ad Amina Toure-Kassim
07.03.2023
Les Nouveaux Riches
Interview with Amina-Toure
Interview with Amina Toure-K
Studio Visit
On the occasion of Amina Toure-K.'s first solo exhibition BEHIND THE SCENES; TALES OF A DREAMER", Italian art critic and curator Manuela de Leonardis interviews the artist. Read the interview to get to know Amina's inspirations and interests.
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