Arthur Timothy Ghana, b. 1957

Solo exhibitions include: Postcards from a Promised Land, Gallery 1957, London (2022-3); Insight, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery-Insight (online) (2020);Grandma’s Hands, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana(2021), Curated by Ekow Eshun.

The artist’s group presentations include: In and Out of time, Gallery1957, Accra, Ghana (2023), Curated by Ekow Eshun; UNLIMITED II, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana; Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA Miami, USA (2022); The Storytellers, Gallery 1957, London, UK (2022); [West] African Renaissance, Christies, Dubai, UAE (2021); Introducing Arthur Timothy + Juan Miguel Quiñones, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK (2020); SummerExhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2019).

Timothy’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; The ICA Miami, USA; The Tia Collection, USA; The Dean Collection, USA; and other notable private collections. His drawings are retained in the V&A+ RIBA Drawings Collection, UK. He has been featuredin a number of publications including: Apollo Magazine, Mission Magazine, The Art Newspaper, ArtNews, The Financial Times, FT ‘How to Spend It’ Magazine, Nataal Magazine, Something Curated, Forbes Magazine, GQ; and architectural publications including Architects Journal, Building, the Sunday Times and The Observer. Arthur Timothy has also been a guest on BBC Radio4’s ‘Saturday Live’.

Arthur Timothy was born in Accra, Ghana and spent his early childhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He attended Queen’s College in Taunton, England before studying Architecture at The University of Sheffield and establishing his architectural practice, Timothy Associates, in 1986. After decades of practising as a RIBA chartered architect, Arthur embarked on his career as a painter in 2018.