Press + Awards
Selected Press
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center: The God Child - Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Coveteur :Nana Oforiatta Ayim On Quarantine In Accra And Deconstructing Privilege
Electric Literature : Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Being a Custodian of Ghanaian History
Johannesburg Review of Books : The God Child
NY Times : Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels
The Art Newspaper : Ghana appoints experts to draw up 'radical' new plan for museums and monuments
Toast Magazine: The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Daily Graphic: Nana Oforiatta Ayim: A Champion of change
2019
The Guardian: The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim - An ambitious Debut
The National News: How Ghanaian author Nana Oforiatta Ayim is rewriting the typical immigrant tale
Storgy Magazine: The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Vogue : 41 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020
CNN : Ghana makes a star-studded debut at the Venice Biennale
FT : Ghana arrives at the Venice Biennale, bringing new narratives with it
Observer : Why Ghana Chose ‘Freedom’ as the Theme of Its Venice Biennale Debut
Contemporary& : Nana Oforiatta Ayim on Ghana’s First Ever Pavilion at Venice
Aljazeera : Ghana makes pavilion debut at 2019 Venice Biennale art show
Jaya's Blog: Nana Oforiatta Ayim - The God Child
2017
Apollo Magazine : Exploring Ghana’s growing art scene
Artnet: : Accra to Get New Major Art Space Spearheaded by ANO
NY Times : How Diverse Is African Art? A 54-Volume Encyclopedia Will Try for an Answer
Vogue : Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s Open-Source Encyclopedia of African History Starts With Ghana
NY Times: Portraits by Ghana’s First Woman Photographer
The Guardian : Artful Accra: Ghana’s 60th marked by the birth of an ambitious gallery
The Guardian: Accra a century ago: life in Ghana before independence – in pictures
The Guardian: Accra in the spotlight: colonial questions as Ghana's capital celebrates its 60th
The Guardian: Where to go in 2017
2016
Africa Is A Country : Rethinking space in Accra, Ghana
The Guardian : Ghana's first travelling museum ready to hit the road
FT : Textiles and West African culture
NY Times : Technology expands the world for African artists
W Magazine : Nana Oforiatta Ayim's Accra
Artsy: As Collectors Look to African Art, Accra Emerges as a Creative Hub
LSE: Art and its role in telling personal, family and collective histories
Elephant Mag : What is Africa anyway
Intense Art Magazine : IAM…Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Creative Director – Ghana
Okay Africa: Inside Accra's Fresh New Art Gallery, Opening This Ghanaian Independence Day
Okay Africa: 12 Times African Women Have Already Made History In 2016
2015
The Creators Project : Historian Launches "Living History Hubs" in Ghana
Digital Development Debates | Issue 14 : A Digital Narrative
Another Africa : Breaking down artistic barriers in Ghana
Okay Africa : The Artists Of Accra's Chale Wote Street Festival Interpret "African Electronics"
Accradotalt Radio : Documenting Africa: Meet Nana Oforiatta
2014
The Africa Report : Oforiatta-Ayim and Ghana’s map of cultural thinkers
Another Africa : The Treasures of Accra’s Growing Art Scene
2013
Contemporary& : C& meets Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Design 233 : Nana Oforiatta Ayim
2012
Africa Is A Country : The Ungovernables
2007
Black Cultural Archives Launches Exciting Heritage Programme to Commemorate Ghana's Golden Jubilee
Awards & Recognitions
Mbokodo Award, Visual Arts, 2020
Ghana Innovation Awards, 2020
Oxford University Humanities Council Member, 2020
Okay Africa, 100 Women, 2020
Global Arts Visiting Fellow, Oxford University, 2018
Soros Arts Fellowship, 2018
Quartz African Innovator Award, 2017
Fellowship, Instituto Sacatar, Itaparica, AIR Award, Brazil, 2016
Art & Technology Award, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2015
Residency, Kadist Foundation, Paris 2015
Jury Member, TURN Fund for Artistic Cooperation, Berlin 2012 - 2018
Panavision Young Filmmaker’s Award 2012
Writer’s Residency, Villa Karo, Benin, 2013
Writer’s Residency, Lukkeskåra/Rådlausjuvet, Suldal, Norway, 2012
Writer’s Residency, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway, 2012
Writer’s Residency, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal, 2012
Writer’s Residency, Zoma Contemporary Arts Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2011
Choreodrome Residency, The Place, London, 2011
Writer’s Residency, Triangle Arts, Marseille, 2010
Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award, 2005-2008
African Documentary and Non-fiction Prize for CrossOver, Festival Cinema Africano, Milan (In Competition), 2006
Music and Performance Prize for CrossOver at the RAI Ethnographic Film Festival (In Competition), 2006