Artists Abena Apatu
SUMMER 2025 RESIDENT · JUN – AUG
Abena Apatu
Graphite & charcoal · Baltimore, MD
Abena Apatu is an illustrator and fine artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her BFA in General Fine Arts, with a certificate in Illustration, from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Summer 2025 session.
About the work
Apatu’s practice moves between realism and surrealism, exploring cognition, spiritual connection and the natural world. Working mostly in graphite and charcoal pencil, she creates semi-realistic portraits and landscapes on paper stretched over wooden panels, and has expanded into color through watercolor and gouache.
Selected highlights
BFA in General Fine Arts with a certificate in Illustration, Maryland Institute College of Art
