Senam Okudzeto is an artist, writer, and lecturer.
Senam Okudzeto is an artist, writer, and lecturer.
The offspring of Ghanaian parents, Okudzeto has lived and worked in Africa, London, and New York. Okudzeto attained a BA in Fine Arts from the Slade School of Fine Art and an MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art.
Her primary medium is painting, however Okudzeto is a multi-media artist whose work is informed by a number of sociopolitical and cultural themes including the intersection of economics and social relations and “performance and the gendered body, memory and African modernities in the context of art, architecture and material culture.” A major focus of Okudzeto’s work is her cross cultural survey of art through the prism of contemporary African identity.
Okudzeto has authored a number of articles; including “Lyle Ashton Harris,” Aperture, Queer issue 218, Aperture Foundation, New York ( 2015) and “Emotive Histories; The Politics of Remembering Slavery in Contemporary Ghana.”
She is founder and director of the NGO Art in Social Structures (AiSS) which creates initiatives to foster the visual arts and heritage in Ghana. One of her most recent projects, short film entitled The Dialectic of Jubilation, was shot in Switzerland and Ghana.
Okudzeto career also includes serving as an instructor and lecturer at Loyola University, Occidental College, and the Hochshule fur Gestaltung in Switzerland.
The Artist’s Work in Other Collections (selected)
• Baltimore Museum
Exhibitions (Artist)
• Studio Museum (Harlem, New York), the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Museum Rietberg (2016); the 14th Istanbul Biennale (2015), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011); and Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2011).
The Artist’s Work In Other Collections
Exhibitions (Artist)
Awards, Commissions, Public Works
Affiliations (Past And Current)
Notable
Artist Objects
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