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Selected Collections

Bright Bimpong's work is in many collections in US, Europe and Africa and the Carribean. Some of the major collections include
public art commissions in Atlanta, commissioned by the 1996 Olympic Face-lift Committee, titled Ralph David Abernathy a symbolic sculpture of chair and lectern in memory of the civil right activist and Martin Luther King's collegue in the civil right movement.
State of Connecticut Forensic Laboratory commissioned a bronze, titled Witness an aluminum figure for its Meriden location.

Installed in the University of Alaska Anchorage is Transaction II, a two-figure bronze piece measuring 108 feet high.
The US Virgin Islands government commissioned me to create Freedom, a larger than life size figure blowing conch with a machette mounted on marble base. Copies of this figure are intalled on all three islands. Also installed in St Croix, in addition to Freedom are two portraits of Buddhoe and Hamilton Jackson.
I have my work in the collection of important private and public collection including.The Museum of African Arts has my work in her collections. Efo, figurative piece was purchased by the Museum through Skoto Gallery of New York.

Introduction

After receiving an undergraduate degree from College of Art, University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana, I joined Johnson Aterlier in 1989. At Johnson Atelier I took off for two years from 1993 to 1995 to earn a Masters of Arts degree in sculpture from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Formal Education Johnson Atelier	Skowhegan Resume

Selected Reviews

Bright Bimpong's tripartite installation, entitled Sustainers, is composed of bronze and mild steel sculpture, terra-cotta wall pieces, and some 200 pots of clay, sand and sawdust. Bimpong prefers working in forms he considers truthful to his sense of aesthetics, which is grounded in the use of natural materials. .....read more

Jorge Daniel Veneciano
From the Studio: Artist-in-Residence, 1993-1994
The Studio Museum in Harlem

When Bright Bimpong came from Ghana to the United States to study at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture in New Jersey, he already had a strong background in art, having completed a BA degree at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. It was at the foundry where he learned Western technology for what has become his signature medium of casting bronze and iron. ......read more

Liese Van der Watt and Gary Van Wyk
DISTINGUISHED IDENTITIES
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN PORTRAITURE
University Art Gallery - Staller Center for the Arts
University of New York at Stony Brook

New Series

Actual it is a series revived. I have started working on a series of spagetti-like forms I abandoned long time ago. My influence for this series has changed from the early ones. It is about hierarchy and how it plays from society to society with the source or parent motivation of survival. When I started daubling in this idea back in my native country, my influences came from the politics in the little Art faculty where I was a student and the close observation of the desire for the little man to survive. It is the same concept in the Western world as I can attest to. The question is how does one make it "big" however one defines it. The answer gets entangled in complex threads and as such defies logic. I am not here to provide answers or be critical of any system. My work is just to start a dialogue of how the quest for survival has made humanity evolve into. Evolution of society in evident in history of civlization proves how this desire has improved mankind. It is up to one to put this under their own microscope.

The Ladder