ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Ebenezer Nketsiah Mensah is an interdisciplinary artist pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Florida. He received his first degree in Fine Art (Painting) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at the Department of Painting and Sculpture in 2018.

Mensah's works serve as a powerful narrative that explores multifaceted themes such as identity, labor, history, migration, and power interplay through his paintings, sculptures, installations, and photo documentaries. His work focuses on construction and small-scale mining known as ‘galamsey’ in Ghana. He reflects on his lived experience as a miner and a construction worker in Tarkwa, Ghana. Through his current art research, he raises critical issues surrounding construction, delves into the lives involved, and scrutinizes their archetypal influence on communities in both Tarkwa, Ghana, and Gainesville, U.S.A., where these activities are in operation, and the geopolitics involved in labor.

He is a passionate, very dedicated, hardworking artist, currently the teacher of records for the perceptual studio course at the University of Florida.

His work has been shown in several exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including Richmond, VA; Gainesville, FL; Gatlinburg, TN; and Ghana.

Mensah has earned several awards and fellowships, including the second-place award for the 2025 University of Florida Juried Exhibition, and the Windgate Fellowship, and he completed a residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, etc.

His evolving career continues to make a profound impact on contemporary art.