Ablade Glover CV was born on 1934 and is a Ghanaian painter and educator.
12 Facts About Ablade Glover
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Ablade Glover has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene.
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Ablade Glover's work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, and O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States.
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Ablade Glover was Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until 1994.
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Ablade Glover had his teacher training education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, before winning a scholarship to study textile design at London's Central School of Art and Design.
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Ablade Glover went on to further his education in the US, first at Kent State University, where he earned his master's degree, and then at Ohio State University, where he was awarded a PhD in 1974.
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Ablade Glover rose to the rank of associate professor within that period.
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Ablade Glover founded the Accra-based Artists Alliance Gallery, which has roots in an earlier gallery he founded in the 1960s and in its new incarnation was opened by Kofi Annan in 2008.
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Ablade Glover's style has been described as "swirling between abstraction and realism", and his subject matter typically favours large urban landscapes, lorry parks, shantytowns, thronging markets and studies of the women of Ghana.
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In 1998, Ablade Glover received the Flagstar Award from ACRAG, and was honoured with the distinguished alumni award from the African-American Institute in New York City.
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Ablade Glover has been honoured with several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana in 2007, the Millennium Excellence Award in 2010 and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
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Ablade Glover is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.