Samuel Baah Kortey is a Ghanaian multi-sensory artist, thinker, and visual researcher. Moving across installation, documentation, and street-level visual culture, his work begins with historical archives, everyday encounters, and moments shaped by death, decay, and struggle. These materials crystallize into objects or experiential situations that trace the post-colonial residues embedded in contemporary life. As an acute observer, he studies the hyper-visible textures of cities—particularly Kumasi, where he lives and works—through recordings, mundane gestures, and urban iconography. Kortey holds a BFA and MFA from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi (2013–2022). In 2023, he completed further studies in Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (class of Willem de Rooij). He is a member of the collectives blaxTARLINES and Commune6x3, and co-founder of the Asafo Black Collective. His work has been presented at the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennial and at Documenta 15 in 2022 with his respective collectives.
