Halcyon, a 2024 painting by Isshaq Ismail
Halcyon, 2024 Acrylic on canvas, 50 × 60 in
Complete view of Halcyon, 2024, by Isshaq Ismail

Accra, Ghana

Isshaq Ismail is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the human condition through distorted anatomy, material density and colour. Working across painting and sculpture, he constructs figures that hold beauty and discomfort, resilience and vulnerability in the same image.

Selected exhibitions
Africa Supernova, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
Beauty Behind the Madness, Gallery 1957, Accra
Beyond the Fence Begins the Sky, Efiɛ Gallery, Dubai