# Amoako Boafo

Thomas amoako boafo, known as amoako boafo (born 10 May 1984), is a Ghanaian painter and visual artist. == Career == Boafo was born and raised in Osu in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. He attended the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Accra, and later continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Austria.Boafo's work is in private and public collections, most recently in the Blenheim Art Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rubell Museum, Marieluise Hessel Collection, the Aishti Foundation, the CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, the Pizzuti Collection of Columbus Museum of Art and the Albertina Museum in Vienna.Boafo was awarded the jury prize of the Walter Koschatzky Art Prize in 2017, and the STRABAG Art award International in 2019, both in Vienna, Austria.