Amoako Boafo was born on the 10th of May, 1984 and raised in Osu, Accra – Ghana. He studied at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Accra in 2007, before attending the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Boafo was awarded with the jury prize, Walter Koschatzky Art Prize in 2017 and the STRABAG Art award International in 2019 both in Vienna, Austria. Also in 2019, he was the first artist-in-residency at the new Rubell Museum in Miami, Florida and collaborated with Kim Jones, Dior Men’s creative director, for Dior’s Spring/Summer 2021 Men Collection in 2020. In 2021 Boafo was selected by Uplift Aerospace to create the inaugural “Suborbital Triptych” on the exterior panels of a Blue Origin New Shepard space rocket.

Widely collected by prestigious private and public collectors and institutions, most recently by Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN; the Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Marieluise Hessel Collection, the Aishti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon; Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany; Hessel Museum of Art, New York NY, the Pizzuti Collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio and the Albertina Museum in Vienna among others.

Boafo is regarded as a notable young voice in art of the African diaspora through his approaches to the celebration of Blackness by shaping of Black forms and their dispositions in a larger global context.