Daniel Schrade

Biography
Daniel Kojo Schrade, artist and associate professor of art at Hampshire College Amherst Massachusetts USA, studied in Germany and Spain. He received an M.F.A from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany. His paintings and installations have been presented internationally including the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo/Oaxaca-Mexico, Alliance Francais/Kumasi-Ghana, Haus der Kunst/Munchen-Germany, Muzej Grada/Rijeka-Croatia, and the Mead Art Museum/Amherst-MA. He has taught painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Kwame Nkrumah University/Kumasi-Ghana. His work includes repeated motifs such as the “Afronaut” figure, and textual elements in the cycle entitled, “Brother Beethoven”, a series he started in 1999. Daniel Kojo Schrade was a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College and has received grants and awards from the Cusanuswerk Foundation Bonn-Germany, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and the Government of Bavaria. His work is represented in various permanent collections amongst others the Museo de Cuenca-Spain, Bavarian State Collection Munich, Collection Morat Freiburg-Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca-Mexico, Mead Art Museum Amherst.

Office Hours

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= Courses =

Spring 2018


 * HACU-240 Multimedia Crossings: Intersections in Painting, Performance and Installation Art


 * HACU-360 Curatorial Seminar for Division III Students in the Visual Arts

Fall 2017


 * HACU-125 Scavenging Color&Light: Introduction to Representational Painting and Collective, Abstract Work


 * HACU-250 Vagabonding Images: Abstraction and Non-Representational Painting

Students I Work With
Spring 2018:   Lulu Bigham / Noah Greene-Lowe / Kjell Hemstaed / Jackson Glasgow Spring 2017: Riley Kleve Spring 2016: Naomi Romm / Daniel Perlmutter / Milo Smolin / Emma Rentz / Lilly Daiber

In the News

 * |schrade Neues Deutschland Berlin 01.19.2010 (Socialist Newspaper)
 * Interview, African Times