Ablade Glover

Ablade Glover
Born
Emmanuel Ablade Glover

1934 (age 9091)
NationalityGhanaian
Alma materKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;
Central School of Art and Design (BA);
Kent State University (MA);
Ohio State University (PhD)
Known forVisual art, painting
AwardsFlagstar Award

Ablade Glover FGA FRSA CV (born 1934) is a Ghanaian painter and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene. His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, and O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States.

Glover has received several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana, and he is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. He was Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until 1994.