Augustine Kofie American, b. 1973

Works
  • Augustine Kofie, Violetter, 2023
    Violetter, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    160 x 150 cm
    € 9,600.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Grand Gesture, 2023
    Grand Gesture, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    100 x 200 cm
    € 9,000.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Sigh of Bliss, 2023
    Sigh of Bliss, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 160 cm
    € 8,600.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Humrush, 2023
    Humrush, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 100 cm
    € 6,600.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Quiet Storm, 2023
    Quiet Storm, 2023
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 100 cm
    € 6,600.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Engagement, 2023
    Engagement, 2023
    Acrylic on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    Framed under museum anti-UV glass size 80 x 60 cm
    € 2,400.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Entanglemoment , 2023
    Entanglemoment , 2023
    Acrylic on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    Framed under museum anti-UV glass size 80 x 60 cm
    € 2,400.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Magnetisma, 2023
    Magnetisma, 2023
    Acrylic on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    Framed under museum anti-UV glass size 80 x 60 cm
    € 2,400.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Dicey, 2023
    Dicey, 2023
    Mixed media on wooden panel
    (Found paper, acrylic polymer, ballpoint pen on a cradled birch panel;
    sealed in archival matte varnish.; finished in satin varnish)
    40 x 40 cm
    42 x 42 cm framed
    € 1,900.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Hun beto, 2023
    Hun beto, 2023
    Mixed media on wooden panel
    (Found paper, acrylic polymer, ballpoint pen on a cradled birch panel;
    sealed in archival matte varnish.; finished in satin varnish)
    40 x 40 cm
    42 x 42 cm framed
    € 1,900.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Azo Obliquely, 2022
    Azo Obliquely, 2022
    Acrylic on canvas
    102 x 102 x 3.5 cm
    € 5,000.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Cadilastic, 2021
    Cadilastic, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 cm
    € 3,800.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Unravelment, 2021
    Unravelment, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas
    77 x 58 cm
    € 2,900.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Purr Plex, 2020
    Purr Plex, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    80 x 80 x 3.5 cm
    € 3,800.00
  • Augustine Kofie, An Elegant Amount, 2019
    An Elegant Amount, 2019
    Mixed media on wood (collage, acrylic, rollpen, screenprint...)
    46 x 36 x 4.5 cm
    € 1,600.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Power Mount Memory, 2017
    Power Mount Memory, 2017
    Mixed media on wood
    123.5 x 83 x 4 cm
    € 8,500.00
  • Augustine Kofie, Bedste Les, 2023
    Bedste Les, 2023
    Mixed media on wooden panel
    (Found paper, acrylic polymer, ballpoint pen on a cradled birch panel;
    sealed in archival matte varnish.; finished in satin varnish)
    40 x 40 cm
    42 x 42 cm framed
    Sold
  • Augustine Kofie, Valo giver go, 2023
    Valo giver go, 2023
    Mixed media on wooden panel
    (Found paper, acrylic polymer, ballpoint pen on a cradled birch panel;
    sealed in archival matte varnish.; finished in satin varnish)
    40 x 40 cm
    42 x 42 cm framed
    Sold
Biography

Founded in 2010, Graffuturism is a movement showing a group of artists coming from graffiti, having made the step of deconstructing the letter towards an abstraction of forms, inspired by the structure and the movement of the city. Augustine Kofie was considered the leader of this worldwide movement from the beginning.

Born in Los Angeles, Augustine Kofie discovered graffiti in the late 80s, immersed in the skate culture that surrounded him. Inspired by the shape and structure of letters, Augustine Kofie tamed them, destructuring them to then rebuild them, with an unpa- ralleled technical mastery of spatiality. The artist began to exhibit in galleries in 2002, and his 2009 exhibition Vintage Futurism (Zero1 Gallery, L.A) marked a turning point in his career, laying the foundations for his current work. Augustine Kofie develops his mastery of scale and movement in works full of lines and structured shapes. And a vintage feel also pervades his work; from the 60s magazine illustrations he uses for his collages to the salvaged materials he uses as media, through his choice of colours. Augustine Kofie collaborates with American galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and with a gallery in Denmark and since 2013 has been represented in France by Galerie Chenus Longhi and the exhibitions' cycle it has organised on the theme of Graffuturism. 

It may be understood in thirty years or so that Augustine Kofie is to Graffuturism what Jackson Pollock is to Action Painting. But it must be understood now that he is one of the most gifted American abstract artists of his generation. His relationship to form is based on both an architectural geometric rigour in the lines and angles - which become more and more acute as the years go by - and on the harmony of the colours - which become softer and softer - as well as the curves, circles and semicircles that structure the composition. The music remains central and guides all his gestures, with a perpetual search for balance between control and improvisation evoking free jazz.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2023 - Undercurrents, Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)

2022 - Prisma, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg (DK)

2022 - Rotationships, Heron Arts, San Francisco (US)

2021 - State of Mind, Hashimoto Gallery, New York (US)

2020 - RETROperspectives, SpaceJunk Art Centers, Lyon (FR)

2020 - Adventures in Tonality, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)

2019 - Darkest Before the Dawn, StolenSpace Gallery, London (UK)

2018 - MKNZM, Swinton Gallery, Madrid (ES)

2017 - Build From Memory, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)
2016 - Above the streets (projet outdoor), Art Share, Los Angeles (US)

2015 - Inventory, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York (US)
2014 - Taking Shape, Galerie Chenus Longhi, off site x Bastille Design Center, Paris (FR)

2014 - Yesterday Advance, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City (MX)

2013 - Structurally Sound, White Walls, San Francisco (US)

2013 - California Soul, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR) 
2012 - Working an Angle, Known Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2011 - Circulatory System, White Walls, San Francisco (US)
2010 - Retrofited & and Other Forms of Vintage Futurism, White Walls, San Francisco (US)

2009 - Vintage Futurism, Zero1 Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2006 - Hands On, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2006 - Electric Avenue, Bent Gallery, Pasadena (US)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

2022 - Pattern Recognition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont (US)

2022 - Forme(s) Collective, residency, Grayan-et-Hopital (FR)

2021 - Upside Down, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg (DK)

2021 - Detour Art Herning, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg (DK)

2021 - Group show with Galerie Chenus Longhi at Urban Art Fair, Paris (FR)

2020 - Fair Play, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)

2020 - Multiples, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York (US)

2020 - Inside Out, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg (DK)

2020 - In Formation, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York (US)

2019 - Group show, David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech (MO)

2018 - Abstract Street Art, SpaceJunk Gallery, Bayonne (FR)

2017 - Welcome to New Jersey | Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Jersey City (US)

2017 - Reset | Athen B Gallery, Oakland (US)
2017 - Mini Wiconi | Tangent Gallery, Détroit (US)

2017 - Group show with Galerie Chenus Longhi at Urban Art Fair, Paris (FR)

 2016 -Please Don’t Touch !, Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)

2016 - Grand Opening | Matthew Namour Gallery, Montréal (CA)

2016 - Brick to Canvas | Tinney Contemporary, Nashville (US)

2016 - Exceptional | Scream, Londres (UK)

2015 - Cosmic Flush: Celebrating the life and work of the legendary Rammellzee | Gamma Proforma, London (UK)

2015 - Go! [Grand Opening], Galerie Chenus Longhi, Paris (FR)
2014 - Assioma, 2 person show with Moneyless, Avant Garden Gallery, Milan (IT)

2014 - Exhibit Z | Library Street Collective, Détroit (US)

2013 L’Avenir, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco (US)

2013 - Three The Hard Way, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland (US)

2013 - Wilder Than a Postcard, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland (US)

2013 - Urban Art ! Biennale 2013, Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen (DE)

2012 - Graffuuturism, Soze Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2012 - Conversations, 2 person show with Jaybo Monk, Soze Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2012 - Gather, 2 person show with Paul Senyol, The Lovell Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)

2011 - Assorted Flavor, Known Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2011 - Rudimentary Perfection, Galerie Recoat, Glasgow (SC)

2011 - Street Cred, PMCA, Los Angeles (US)

2010 - Street Legal / Mear One, Kofie, Retna & El Mac, Rivera&Rivera Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2010 - Never a Dull Moment, White Walls, San Francisco (US)
2010 - Contemporary Corruption Revisited, Mid-City Arts Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2009 - Climb In The Back Window, Shadows Spaces Gallery, Philadelphie (US)

2009 - Metallum, duo x Codak, Ronin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2007 - From LA With Love Installation, The A+D Museum, Los Angeles (US)

2007 - Thanks, 2 person show with Frohawk Two-Feathers, Unitard Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2005 - New Works, 2 person show with Craola Greg Simkins, Fifty24SF Gallery, San Francisco (US)

2002 - Hotsy Dunk, The Produce Department Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

Exhibitions
Art Fairs