Na Chainkua Reindorf (b. 1991, Ghana) is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep interest in world-building and mythmaking through the art of the masquerade. Upon imagining a fictional female masquerade society, Reindorf’s art practice is currently focused on creating artworks ranging from paintings and tapestries to sculptural installations which serve as referential visual lexicon for this imagined world.
Inspired by personal experiences and exploring West African folklore and religious cosmologies, Reindorf is interested in masquerading as an intervention through which guises and mutable personalities can be used to explore deviancy and non-conformity.
Na Chainkua received an MFA from Cornell University and has exhibited internationally in institutions across Africa, North America and Europe. In 2022, Reindorf was one of three artists representing Ghana at the Venice Biennale.
Recent exhibitions : Up To No Good, Nubuke Gallery (Accra, 2022) ; Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things, Specialist Gallery (Seattle, 2020) ; Shrine, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, (Binghamton NY, 2019); left hanging – one sculpture, one rug & paintings, Dot Ateliers, Accra, Ghana; Poly. A Fluid Show, Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; What Now?, PM/AM Gallery, London, United Kingdom; 20th Anniversary Show, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton, New York; Memoria: récits d’une Autre Histoire, Yaoundé, Cameroon