Lives in Accra, Ghana
Solo exhibitions
2024 | Beyond the Skin, Museu Tàpies, Barcelona, ES |
ETTEH NTENI, Simchowitz DTLA, Los Angeles, CA, US | |
2023 | Crossroads, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK |
2022 | Stimulation of Consciousness, Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal, PT |
Tribe and Tribulation, The Line, London, UK | |
Shooting at Hunger, Kew Gardens, London, UK | |
Erased Past, BRIGADE, Copenhagen, DK | |
Gold Falls, Desert X, AlUla, SA | |
The Bodies Left Behind, Ritz-Carlton South Beach, Miami, FL, US | |
2021 | Distinctive Gestures, Gallery 1957, London, UK |
Beyond Skin, Simchowitz, Los Angeles, CA, US | |
2020 | Sensitive Balance, Gnyp, Berlin, DE |
Routes, The Mistake Room at The Platform,Culver City, Los Angeles, CA, US | |
Adesa We, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA, US | |
2019 | Sometime In Your Life, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, IT |
Solo Chorus, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA, US | |
Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Foundation, Oslo, NO | |
2018 | Solo presentation with Gallery 1957 at UNTITLED, Miami, FL, US |
Differences Between, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY, US | |
Defying the Narrative, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA, US | |
The Displaced, Gallery 1957 at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE | |
2017 | Gallery 1957 at Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, ZA |
Gallery 1957 at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, NY, US | |
Burning in Water w/ Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, New York, NY, US | |
2016 | My Mother's Wardrobe, Gallery 1957, Accra, GH |
Hand to Mouth, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA, US | |
Earthly Conversations, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, DE | |
Solo presentation w/ Gallery 1957 at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK |
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2015 | The Displaced, Mesler/Feuer, New York, NY, US |
2008 | Global Warming (Featured Project), British Council, Accra, GH |
Portrait of Accra, Junior Art Club Sponsorship, Bristol, UK | |
Selected group exhibitions
2024 | HILL HOUSE, Simchowitz Hill House, Los Angeles, CA, US |
Doodle and Dream, curated by Lauren Kasmer and Michael L. Miller, | |
El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA, US | |
Avant-Garde and Liberation, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna, AT | |
2023 |
Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, National Portrait Gallery, |
London, UK | |
Reversed Safari, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, RU | |
The Speed of Grace, Simões de Assis, Sao Paulo, BR | |
Agbumite, 360 Projects GH in Collaboration with La Dade- Kotopon Municipal Assembly, Accra, GH |
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Sea Never Dries, Simon Lee Gallery, Art Basel, CH | |
Acts of Gathering, The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK | |
The Laboratory of the Future, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT | |
Lost And Found, Elevation 1049, Gstaad, CH | |
2022 | The Storytellers, Gallery 1957, London, UK |
Color of The Times, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, KR | |
Contemporary African Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, US | |
2021 | La Condition Publique, Roubaix, FR |
Desert X, Curated by Cesar Garcia and Neville Wakefield, Palm Desert, CA, US | |
Kugarisana, Simchowitz at Christie's Beverly Hills, CA, US | |
2020 | Radical Revisionists, The Moody Center, Rice University, Houston, TX, US |
Materiality, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, ZA | |
2019 | Fabrica, Brighton Festival, UK |
Tradition Interrupted, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, US | |
2018 | Art Los Angeles Contemporary w/ Ever Gold [Projects], Los Angeles, CA, US |
2017 | Dans Un Ciel Ensoleille, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA, US |
Atsala Tsala (A Selection of Contemporary African Art), Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, CH |
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Untitled Group Show, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US | |
Group Show, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa, ZA | |
2016 | Practical Common Sense, Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Accra, GH |
2015 | Spielzeiteröffnung 2015: We Don't Contemporary Festival, Hamburg, DE |
What is Matter, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, CN | |
The Silence of Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA, US | |
2014 | Colour Unfinished, 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, FR |
Migration Messages, Collective Realities of African Migration, Werkstätten-nd Kulturhaus, Vienna, AT | |
Global Art Local View, European Monument Day, Mohr- Villa, Münich, DE | |
MULTIPOINT, The International Art Symposium, Nitra, SK | |
African Contemporary Photography, The Auction Room & Ozwald Boateng, London, UK | |
Masked/Unmasked, DAK'ART - 11th Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, SN | |
'Colour Unfinished, Du Bois In Our Time II,' University of Amherst, Nubuke Foundation and the Du Bois Centre, Accra, GH | |
2013 | Muses, Goethe Institut, Accra, GH |
Art Speaks, Werkstätten-und Kulturhaus, Vienna, AT | |
Inside The Mosquito Net, Alliance Française, Accra, GH | |
We Are Africa, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, GH | |
2012 | Time, Trade & Travel, Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, NL |
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Goethe Institut, Accra, GH | |
Alternative Independence Day Celebration, Freedom Tour, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, GH | |
Inside The Mosquito Net, Brazil House, Jamestown, GH | |
2011 | Cultures in Confluence, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra, GH |
Trash To Treasure, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra, GH | |
Climate Change, Caspar House, Accra, GH | |
2009 | Africa Show, African Contemporary Art, Naples, IT |
2008 | Untying the Human Spirit, CAN 2008, Goethe Institut, Accra, GH |
Selected public collections
Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, US | |
Grand Valley State University Art Gallery, Allendale, MI, US | |
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, US | |
Kunstmuseum Arnhem, Arnhem, NL | |
Modern Forms, UK | |
Nubuke Foundation, Accra, GH | |
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, US | |
Seth Dei Foundation, Accra, GH |
The World Bank Collection, Washington D.C., US |
Awards and honors
Doctor of Arts, University of Brighton, UK |