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. She is also the recipient of The Rude & Daphne Osolnik Scholarship from Arrowmont School of Art and Craft. In April 2025, Benedicta was recognized as one of the Fresh Squeezed 9: Emerging Artist by the Morean Art Center.
Benedicta has shown her works in group exhibitions including Fresh Squeezed – Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg Fl, 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, B24: Wiregrass Biennial exhibition Juried by Wiregrass Museum of Art – Dothan Alabame, Summer Youth Celebration - Cotton Club Museum, Gainesville Fl.
She participated in the performance Fluxus in the Swamp, piano activities 2024 by Philip Corner at Santa Fe College gallery and took part in a panel discussion with Bibbe Hansen, Jack Massing, Craig Coleman, Dr. Billie Maciunas, Professor Sean Miller at the Harn Museum, Gainesville Florida.
Originally from Ghana, she currently lives and work in Gainesville, Florida the United States.