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Ato Ribeiro

Studio Artist

Ato Ribeiro (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA. and spent the formative years of his life in Accra, Ghana before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, where is currently a studio artist at the Atlanta Contemporary. He recently served as a 2024 Artist in Residence at the Fountainhead Residency, a 2022/2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow, a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee, and has received Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME. His work has been exhibited at the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix, AZ), Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), and Anastasia Tinari Projects (Chicago, IL) among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Mercedes-Benz USA Headquarters among others. He earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Awards

2022-2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow

2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee

2021 MINT Leap Year Artist

2017 Marcedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award

Notable Residencies

Artist in Resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany

Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT

Fellowship at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA

Fellowship at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME

Education

Ato earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Ato Ribeiro at Open Studios 2023

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