Elijah Sofo Ghanaian, b. 1983

Elijah Sofo is a multidisciplinary artist and academic born on July 30, 1983, in Accra, Ghana. He currently lives and works in Sekondi-Takoradi. His extensive academic background includes a Master of Philosophy degree in Art and Culture from the University of Education, Winneba, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Printing (Animation and Illustration), alongside a Higher National Diploma in Painting from Takoradi Technical University, where he serves as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Painting and Design.

Currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Sofo embodies the intersection of artistic practice and academic inquiry.

Sofo’s artistic practice emerges from visceral and sensory encounters within different spaces and places, making his work inherently dynamic and non-static. His dual role as artist and academic profoundly shapes his creative output, which draws from the material culture and ecology of Sekondi-Takoradi and its influence on perception. By transforming city encounters into objects and sites of reflection, Sofo aims to instigate conversations about value, visibility, authorship, and the ecological consequences of everyday life.

His international recognition includes participation in prestigious exhibitions such as the 2024 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale in Korea, the 2023 International Painting Biennial in Moldova, and the 2014 Chicago Artists' Month. Notable solo exhibitions include “Notice Me: The Red Pill” (2022) and “Post No Bill: Object, Body and Spatial Interactions” (2024). Through his practice, Sofo functions as a listener to the city, reading between its layers and giving form to often-overlooked stories and systems that shape urban experience.