Vincent Frimpong

Vincent Frimpong is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. He holds an M.F.A from the University of Arkansas and a B.A. in Industrial Arts (Ceramics option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. His works are shown in multiple group exhibitions, and recently had three solo exhibitions; Reserved: I Woke Up To A Dream at Curfman Gallery at Colorado State University, CO and The Frimpong Case in Fayetteville, AR, and The Frimpong Case Continued in Jackson, MS.

Frimpong was awarded The Windgate Accelerator Grant from the University of Arkansas, Artists 360 Practicing Artist Grant from the Walton Arts Foundation, The Consortium for Intercollegiate Research in the Ceramic Arts (C.I.R.C.A), the Midsouth Dianne Komminsk sculpture winner, and the 2023 The Medium (CACHE)- Creative Exchange Fund (CXF) MARs Award Recipient. He received the 2022 Zenobia award from Watershed in Maine, the 2022 Windgate University Fellowship Awardee for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Maxwell-Hanrahan Haystack Recipient for the 2023 Fellowship, John Glick Penland School of Craft Scholarship 2023, and the Creative Exchange fund Grant from Art Ventures Gallery. Vincent is an Assistant Professor of Art at Talladega College, AL and the 2025 NCECA Emerging Artist Fellow.

“Throughout my life, I’ve been exploring the question, ‘What does it mean to be an African?’ Affirming the core of African power within myself and others permeates everything I do and represent. My objects and installations at once draw upon my history and simultaneously comment on the present. I have embraced mixed media processes to express and explore ideas regarding the richness of African history and pressing contemporary concerns addressing where we come from, where we are, and where we are going.”

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