Joseph Hoggar

Joseph Kojo Hoggar (b. 1999, Accra, Ghana) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, collage, installation, and material research. His work draws from European Renaissance and Dutch Vanitas traditions, which he appropriates and reinterprets through contemporary African perspectives to explore themes of mortality, identity, and cultural hybridity. His recent research expands this inquiry into the material histories of African wax print, denim, and tartan, examining how fabrics carry layered narratives of trade, labor, and cultural exchange, and questioning ideas of cultural purity and authenticity.

He received his BFA in Fine Art from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, in 2022, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also serves as a Teaching Assistant. Hoggar is a recipient of the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art. His work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at Galerie Christophe Person in Paris, and is held in private collections across Europe, Africa, and the United States.