Identity · Isshaq Ismail
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Isshaq Ismail
Accra, Ghana · b. 1989
Biography
Isshaq Ismail lives and works in Accra and studied at Ghanatta College of Art and Design. He is known for heavy impasto portraits and for his series Oman Mu Nsem, which combines paint with newspaper and charcoal. We first showed his work in 2019.
His early painting Cup and Fork (2017) has no face and no figure: a metal mug, a plastic fork and a red surface on green. It asks what life puts in front of us and what we do with it. We showed it in Earth in Orbit in 2025.
Works
6 works. Click a work to look closer.
CharityIsshaq Ismail
Cup and Fork, 2017Isshaq IsmailAcrylic on canvas82 × 67 cm
Oman Mu Nsem 4 (Tramadol)Isshaq IsmailAcrylic, newspaper, charcoal on canvas60 × 85 cm
Theorie of Life 21Isshaq Ismail
Theorie of Life 6Isshaq Ismail
Untitled (Isshaq 1)Isshaq Ismail
