Montague Contemporary is pleased to present Mark Anthony: Ghana Concert Party, the gallery’s first solo exhibition devoted to the celebrated Ghanaian painter Mark Anthony (c. 1943–2010). On view from July 10 through August 16, 2025, the exhibition brings together a rare group of Anthony’s hand-painted concert-party posters—vivid, large-scale plywood panels originally made to advertise traveling theater troupes across Ghana in the 1980s and 1990s.
The show is accompanied by research from anthropologist Dr. Michelle Gilbert, whose seminal writings first introduced Anthony’s posters to an international audience.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mark Anthony was born in Agona Swedru, Central Region, Ghana. Trained as a commercial sign painter, he rose to prominence as the preferred billboard artist for leading concert-party troupes between 1985 and 1995. His works have been exhibited and are held in collections including the University of Maine Museum of Art, Penn State University Libraries, Yale University Art Gallery, and the North Carolina Museum of Art, among others.