| Bernard Akoi–Jackson | |
| Education: | Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(BFA)(MFA)(PhD) |
| Known For: | Installation art, performance art, poetry, video art, photographer, dancer, poet, academic |
| Birth Place: | Ghana |
| Occupation: | Artist, educator, writer |
Bernard Akoi–Jackson (born 1979), is a Ghanaian academic, artist and writer. He is known for projects that are in continual metamorphosis. His art works are mostly performative, or pseudo-rituals.[1] His writings are focused on the development of contemporary African, Ghanaian visual arts and culture in poetic and jovial manner.[2] He is known as a proverbial jester (or Esu)[3] using critical absurdity to move between installations, dance and poetry, video, and photography.[4] He blends post-colonial African identities through transient and makeshift memorials.[5] [6]
Akoi-Jackson attended Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, for his secondary school education. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts and PhD in Painting and Sculpture from the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.[1]
In August 2006, he had his first residency at Kofi Setordj's ArtHAUS where he developed his project '' REDTAPEONBOTTLENECK '' as a participatory performance. He had residencies with Stedelijk Museum[7] as "Global-artist-in-residency between 2013 and 2014 and at the Thiami Mnyele artists' residency in Amsterdam. He is a lecturer at the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.