Na Chainkua Reindorf Ghanaian , b. 1991

Overview
Na Chainkua Reindorf

Na Chainkua Reindorf is a multidisciplinary artist with an interest in world-building and myth-making through the art of the masquerade, spanning painting, tapestry, and sculptural installation.

Reindorf’s mixed media paintings serve as chapters in an elaborate narrative portraying a fictional female masquerade society. In Mawu Nyonu, meaning “God is a woman,” Reindorf imagines seven distinct and unruly fictional female avatars, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and West African folklore. Her mixed media paintings incorporate acrylic gouache, paper fabric, silk, embroidery thread, raffia, and rattan, with narrative scenes framed against bold colors and textures. Reindorf offers a reinterpretation of the predominately masculine traditions of West African masquerade to imagine the liberating possibilities of her female characters to gain control and self-expression.

Biography
Na Chainkua Reindorf

Raised in Ghana, Na Chainkua Reindorf earned an MFA in Creative Visual Arts from Cornell University and a BA in Studio Art from Grinnell College. In 2022, Reindorf was selected as one of three artists representing Ghana at the Venice Biennale.

 

Her work has been exhibited across Africa, North America, and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Strange Flesh at Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, Dakar (2024); Up to No Good at Nubuke Foundation, Accra (2022), and Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things at Specialist Gallery, Seattle (2020). Reindorf has participated in recent group exhibitions at Fondation H, Madagascar (2024); Gallery 1957, Accra (2024); Kindl Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2023); PM/AM Gallery, London (2023); Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton (2023); and The Textile Center, Minneapolis (2022). In 2020, Reindorf received the FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA Residency Grant.

 

Her work is in the collections of Fondazione Berengo, ANO Institute of Art and Knowledge, Bank of America Corporate Office, Enterprise Group, and Nubuke Foundation.

 

Reindorf lives and works between San Juan, PR, and Accra, Ghana.

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