Sandra SK Amoabeng

Sandra SK Amoabeng is a dynamic and visionary multidisciplinary Ghanaian artist and educator whose creative journey is marked by a profound connection to nature and an insatiable curiosity about the world around her. Sandra received her BFA in painting and sculpture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Sandra is a second-year MFA graduate student at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and is a recipient of the Mason Gross Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship.

Amoabeng has exhibited in Synonymms, New York, Polychrome: Beyond a Silhouette in New Brunswick; Home Soil in Metuchen; Existing Otherwise: The Future of Coexistence in Tamale, Ghana; Chaotic Order in Kumasi, Ghana; and the solo exhibition, Garden of Pure Contradictions or Not in Kumasi, Ghana. Sandra is the Founder and Director of Color Splash Paint and Sip. She has held the position as Exhibition Coordinator of Monologues of Voices in Accra, Ghana. Recently, Sandra worked as a Mason Gross Galleries Exhibition Assistant. Currently, Sandra SK Amoabeng is a part-time lecturer at Mason Gross’ Art and Design department and is Curatorial Fellow at Bowery Art Collective. Her curated group exhibition Home Soil, which opened in February 2024, dealt with themes addressing the African Diaspora through the context of what defines home and belonging.

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