Ama BE is a Ghanaian-American artist living and working between the US and Ghana. 

Her practice takes root in themes around African land stewardship, labor ecologies, and migration. She considers plant material and natural elements as collaborators in her work. Engaging botanical materials tied in paradox to hyper-commodification, violence, holistic healing and spirituality, her works explore the possibility of the natural world to rescript their own narratives in relation to black/African bodies. Her process plays with the suppleness of time, memory and archive, and borrows from sculpture, performance, moving image, technology and paper-making in production.

She has exhibited in the 15th Dakar Biennale, The Wake, in Senegal, the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Miami Art Basel’s Satellite Art Show and was a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Wherewithal Research Grant. Her collaborative project, Black Body Radiation: Rescripting Data Bodies won a S+T+ARTS Prize Africa 2024 Award of Distinction.