Larry Achiampong

Larry Achiampong‘s solo and collaborative projects use imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound to investigate ideas surrounding class, cross-cultural and post-digital identity.

Born in 1984, Achiampong attended the University of Westminster in 2005 where he completed a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art. He went on to attain an MA in Sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. Throughout his practice, he has explored his own communal and personal heritage, examining the construction of ‘the self’, splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives to offer multiple perspectives that reveal entrenched socio-political contradictions in society.

He has exhibited, performed and presented projects in a number of international institutions including the Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London; the Institute for Creative Arts, Cape Town; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, , Copenhagen; Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation, Accra and Somerset House, London. He was nominated for a Jarman Award in 2018, and recent residencies include PRAKSIS, Oslo; The British Library/Sound & Music, London; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; Primary, Nottingham and most recently Somerset House Studios, London.

In 2020 Achiampong was awarded the Stanley Picker fellow and in 2019 received the Paul Hamlyn Artist award in recognition for his practice. Achiampong sits on the board of trustees for the Institute of International Visual Arts facilitating art policies in the UK and internationally and also holds a place on the board of trustees for Elephant Trust. 

Larry Achiampong lives and works in Essex.