Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world's foremost African painters, currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blend of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with Western creative technique. He was born in 1962 in Central Ivory Coast, West Africa. As a member of the Baoule ethnic group associated with the Akan people of Southwest Ivory Coast, Kouakou's painting is heavily...more
