BORN
1958 Sekondi (Ghana)
BIOGRAPHY
After a period of apprenticeship in his father's studio, Apagya worked for years as an itinerant photographer in the Ivory Coast.
After his graduation in photojournalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra, he started his own studio (PK's Normal
Photo Studio) in Shama (Ghana), in 1982.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2000 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award 1999-2000. The Photographic Resource Centre at Boston University, Boston, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Galerie Stähli, Zürich
2002 Galerie Schuebbe, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002 Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth
2002 Goethe-Institut, Accra and Ghana National Museum, Accra
2002 Alliance Francaise, Bahia
2000 Galerie Forma Libera, Turin, Italy
2000 Galerie Louisa delle Piane, Mailand
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 "Earth and Memory: African-American Photograph," Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2004-2006 "Horizons, Voices from Global Africa," Museum of World Culture, Sweden
2004-2005 "Manufactured Self," The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2004 "Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe," the Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
2004 "African Art, African Voices," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2004 "When?" Clifford Chance, New York, NY
2004 "Staged Realities: The Studio in African Photography 1870-2004," Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 "Philip Kwame Apagya," Freiburger Film Forum
2003 "In faccia al mondo - il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico," Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo di Villa Croce, Genova
2003 "The Office," The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
2003 "The Public View," Pentagram, London, UK
2002 "Flash Afrique," Düsseldorf, Kunstforum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
2002 "IbridAAfricA, hybrid Africa," Cagliari Lazzaretto Sant'Elia
2002 "NoBorder," Museo della citta di Ravenna, Italy
2001 "Flash Afrique," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2001 "The Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color photography award winners 2000," Boston University, Boston, MA
2001 "The Vibrant Art of Ghana," Den Haag
2001 "Philip Kwame Apagya. Photographer of imagined worlds." Gemeene Museum, The Hague
2001 "Abbild/Depiction," Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
2000 "Porträt Afrika," Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2000 "Expressions africaines," Rennes, Frankreich, Maison International
2000 "African Photographers," 51 Art Gallery - Roger Smulewizc, Antwerpen
2000 "Snap me one! Studio Photographers in Africa," Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
2000 "Africainside," Fries Museum, Noorderlicht-Festival, Groningen
1999 "Africa by Africa. A photographic view." Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1999 "Snap me one! Studiofotografen in Afrika," Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth
1999 "Magazin Photo Nacht," Züricher "Tagesanzeiger", Xtra-Limmat-Haus, Zürich
1999 "Retour de Bamako," Galleries FNAC, Paris and Galleries FNAC, Barcelona
1999 "Fiera di Venezia," Alliance Francaise, Venedig
1999 "Fiesta du Sud," Single Exhibit, Marseille, France
1999 "Festival des trois continents," Nantes, Frankreich
1998 "Snap me one! Studio fotografen Afrika," Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
1998 "3emes Rencontres de la photographie africaine," Bamako, Mali
1997 "Das Gesicht Afrikas," Pressehaus Geo Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, Germany
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Business School, New York, NY
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Gianni Pavesi Collection, Turin, Italy
Pigozzi Collection, Genf, Switzerland
Oetker Collection, Berlin, Germany