Kwame Akoto (signs ALMIGHTY GOD Artworks) , 1950

Born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1950, Kwame Akoto (Almighty God) showed an interest in painting from an early age and displayed obvious talent.

Almighty God 's professional career began at fifteen with two local painters who taught him to paint signs and decorate taxis and lorries. Almighty set up his own workshop in the mid-seventies in one of the most crowded and chaotic parts of Kumasi.

In this same period Kwame Akoto embraced religion in the form of Christianity. He joined a Pentecostal sect known as the House of Faith Ministries and became a fervent preacher as well as a renowned healer. Kwame Akoto then began to call himself Almighty God, the name with which he signs all his works.

International publications and African and European scholars of art began to take an interest in his paintings and André Magnin devoted a chapter in Contemporary Art of Africa to the work of Almighty God. He was also one of the artists present in Susan Vogel's contemporary African art exhibition Africa Explores.

In 2006 Almighty God held a large solo show in Ghana at Alliance Française Accra.

source: 'Almighty God: opere/works, 1979-2007', Enrico Mascelloni, Sarenco, Duccio k. Marignoli