photo by Gioncarlo Valentine
The interests behind my creative practice stem from an urge to bridge my West African heritage with my African American Identity.
Ato Ribeiro 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 he is currently a member of the Studio Artist Program at Atlanta Contemporary. Ribeiro was a recent Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2024 Biennial Grant Awardee, 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 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, 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.