Biography
Benedicta Opoku-Mensah is a multidisciplinary artist who narrates her journey of self-discovery through performances, video, sculpture, hybrid objects, poems, and installation. Her art serves as a medium to confront the preconceived notions surrounding the self, identity, and gender stereotypes, aiming to question their prevailing status quo. She graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana, with a Bachelor of Art in Integrated Rural Art and Industry in 2018. Prior to her MFA at the University of Florida, she was assigned as teaching and research assistant at the same school where he received her bachelor’s degree. Benedicta is the 2023-2025 recipient of the University of Florida’s Grinter Fellowship award. Benedicta has shown her works in group exhibitions including Veiled, Hooded and Hidden - GFAA gallery, Gainesville Fl, Black space - Moisturizer gallery at the Historic Thomas Center, Gainesville Fl, Aging -passage of life, virtual exhibition juried by Exhibizone, A Ball Court, Crocodiles, virtual exhibition juried by I Like Your Work, Shaped by Water juried by The water state - Florida Springs Institute, Cade Museum, Gainesville Fl. Originally from Ghana, Benedicta currently lives and work in Gainesville, Florida the United States.