Gandor Collins

Gandor Collins is a multidisciplinary Ghanaian artist based in Tema, Ghana. He received his HND in industrial Art (Painting) from the Takoradi Technical University and later moved to Kumasi where he completed his BFA in Painting and Sculpture inside KNUST, under the teachings and guidance of the blaxtarlines artist collective. He has shown in both local and international exhibitions such as “Woven Sensibilities”, South Africa 2023, “Virtual Realities Urban Navigations” Ghana 2024 and solo exhibition “Again but Differently” Ghana 2025. He is the winner of the Absa l’atelier ambassador art prize, 2022.

Gandor’s work expands the potential and language of painting by transforming research into visual archives rooted in socio-political memory and material experimentation. Merging various techniques and medium, combined with collective social narratives, he interrogates shifting economic realities, the environmental impact of consumption and textile waste economies, and public spectacle, confronting cycles of erasure and transformation not only within contemporary Ghana but the world at large. Through exhibitions and layered visual strategies, he probes dialogues into the future by positioning art as both archive and critique, documenti...

2023- BFA Painting & Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
2017 - HND Commercial Art (Painting Option), Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

Solo Exhibitions
2025- Again but Differently, Familiar patterns,New Conditions, The Mix Art Gallery, Accra Ghana
2023-Voyages Tisse, Knust Kumasi, Ghana

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026- Nothing Here is Silent, Tair Gallery, Akono Brasserie, Accra Ghana
2025- Beyond Maps, Edition 2, Dela's Inn, Accra, Ghana
2024- Constant Flux, Impact building, Knust, Kumasi, Ghana
2024-Virtual realities, urban navigations, Berj Art Gallery, Labone, Ghana
2023-Woven Sensibilities, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2023-Broaching Alchemy, a contingency of emergent visions Kumasi, Ghana
2023-Parallel, a multidimensional perspective of space and time, Oudtshoorn,
South Africa
2023-Journey beyond maps, Tales of the unfamiliar, Knust Kumasi, Ghana