Daniel Arnan Quarshie

Daniel Arnan Quarshie (born 1995, in Ghana) is a Ghanaian artist whose drawing-based practice explores memory, grief, intimacy, healing, and the unstable relationship between personal experience and social reality. Working primarily across charcoal on paper, plywood, canvas, and other supports, Quarshie examines emotional and political life through dense tonal surfaces, fragmented figuration, and compositions that move between portraiture, abstraction, and sculptural form.  Quarshie completed a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. His work often engages memory, family photographs, oral history, love, loss, and spiritual presence, using charcoal, pastel, and cinematic montage to consider how intimate feeling can be carried through objects, bodies, and built space. Gallery 1957 describes his practice as an effort to expand drawing so that it operates with the force of painting and sculpture.  His work has been exhibited at Gallery 1957, Compound House Gallery, and through Gallery 1957 presentations such as Unlimited II and Art X Lagos. He lives and works between Accra and Kumasi.