Abena Oyiwaa (b. Angelina Ampofo Asomaning) is a Ghanaian visual artist based in Accra. Working across oil painting and digital media, her practice explores the emotional and spiritual lives of African women through a lens she calls Afro-Fem Surrealism—a visual language where blooming organs, floating bones, and clenched fists become metaphors for healing, autonomy, and transformation.
With a background in Accounting and Business Education, Oyiwaa’s creative path has been shaped as much by lived experience as by artistic practice. Her work centers themes of reproductive justice, body memory, grief, and resilience—particularly as they relate to the complexities of womanhood in contemporary Africa.
In 2024, she won the inaugural MenstruART Prize from Amnesty International Ghana for Purity, a digital artwork highlighting menstrual health through surreal symbolism. She was also commissioned that year as a muralist for the Christianborg Archaeological Heritage Project.
Her work has been shown internationally, including Think Far at The Gund Gallery (Kenyon College, USA, 2024), Woman is Key (Nubuke Foundation, Accra), We Are Nothing Without Stories (Hammer Gallery, London), and Africa Here (curated by Osinachi on MakersPlace). She has exhibited virtually with Decentraland and Bangiya Kala Kendra.
Oyiwaa has been featured on the cover of The Mirror newspaper, profiled in Shan Peck’s Africa, and will appear in Arts to Hearts Magazine (Issue 9) and She Creates 2025, a virtual exhibition and artist book spotlighting global women creatives.