Bright Bimpong

After receiving an undergraduate degree from College of Art, University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana, I joined Johnson Aterlier in 1989. At Johnson Atelier I took off for two years from 1993 to 1995 to earn a Masters of Arts degree in sculpture from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Bright Bimpong's work is in many collection in US, Europe and Africa and the Carribean. Some of the major collections include
public art commissions in Atlanta, commissioned by the 1996 Olympic Face-lift Committee, titled Ralph David Abernathy a symbolic sculpture of chair and lectern in memory of the civil right activist and Martin Luther King's collegue in the civil right movement.
State of Connecticut Forensic Laboratory commissioned a bronze, titled Witness an aluminum figure for its Meriden location.
Installed in the University of Alaska Anchorage is Transaction II, a two-figure bronze piece measuring 108 feet high.
The US Virgin Islands government commissioned me to create Freedom, a larger than life size figure blowing conch with a machette mounted on marble base. Copies of this figure are intalled on all three islands. Also installed in St Croix, in addition to F...

Education
1995 Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
MFA
1992 Skowhegan School of Skowhegan, ME
Painting and Sculpture
Summer Visual Art School
1990 Johnson Atelier Trenton, NJ
Technical Institute of Sculpture
Sculpture Foundry Apprenticeship Grants/Fellowships
1999 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Montreal, Canada
1997 Herk Van Tongeren Award Mercerville, NJ
1999 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Montreal, Canada
1999 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Montreal, Canada Selected Exhibitions
2008 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
2007 Smithsonian African Art Museum Washington, DC
2006 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
2004 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
2003 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
2003 Smithsonian African Art Museum Washington, DC
2002 Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton, NJ
2001 Bristol Meyer Squib Princeton, NJ
2001 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
2000 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
1999 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
1998 Skoto Gallery New York, NY
1996 The Studio Museum in Harlem New York, NY
1992 Harlem School of the Arts New York, NY
1998 Lowell Historical Gallery Lowell, MA
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