Adjoa Armah

Biography

Adjoa Armah is an artist, educator, writer and editor with a background in design anthropology. Her practice is concerned with the entanglement between art praxis, design thinking, narrative, the archival, pedagogy, black ontology, ethnology, spatial consciousness, and the political. She is founder of Saman Archive, a gathering of photographic negatives encountered across Ghana, through which she explores new models of institution building grounded in Akan temporalities and West African technologies of social and historical mediation. She is Editor and Research fellow at Afterall, where she is responsible for the Paul Mellon Centre-funded digital research project 'The Black Atlantic Museum' and the 'Afterall Art School' platform. Armah is also a practice-led DPhil researcher in Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford with a project provisionally titled; 'Meeting Saman: On Study with Narrative posture and -graphy in/as Archival Methodology'.

She has been published widely, including in Afterall, e-flux, Frieze, A Magazine Curated by, Apartamento, Vogue, MAP Magazine, Boy.Brother.Friend, and TSA Art Magazine. She has taught across art, curating, design, spatial practices, and writing at institutions including Ruskin School of Art, Central Saint Martins, University of Westminster, Royal College of Art, and HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design. Armah holds an MA in Material Anthropology and Design from University College London.