art maud acheampong young artist

Cultured magazine profiles Ghanaian-American artist Maud Acheampong, age 27, as part of its 2025 Young Artists list. Before their first solo show, Acheampong gained hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers through theatrical videos performed as Dainty Funk, a digital avatar and drag persona. Their work explores surveillance, monstrousness, and existential themes, with a recent live performance piece, "A Yawn, A Scream, An Endless Opening of the Mouth" (2025), presented at the Marshak Planetarium at City College of New York. The artist describes a hypothetical $150,000 project involving an obsidian dome in Ghana, ritual dance, and 3D-scanned footprints.