Serge Attukwei Clottey Ghana, b. 1985

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 

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

  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

  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