Ato Annan is an artist based in Accra, Ghana. With an interest in painting, installation, sound and video, he combines his artistic practice with curating projects with the Foundation for Contemporary Art–Ghana [FCA-Ghana] and working with Mmofra Foundation on their play spaces interventions for children in communities in Accra. Annan has been actively involved in a number of projects that seek to diversify the field of contemporary art by offering tools to artists that enable them to participate in rigorous idea and research – based practices. These have been done through collaborations with the Global Critic Clinics, Independent Curators International and the Asiko International Art Residency of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. With an interest also in public art and its ability to cultivate new and ‘wider’ audiences for contemporary art, he was one of the co-curators of the “visual art” component of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival from its inception in 2011 till 2016. In 2019 he juried on the The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program selection panel for the 2020 artists in residence. He also served on the Curatorial Advisory Board for the 2019 Visible Award.