Senam Okudzeto

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1972
Lives: Basel/London/Accra/New York

Education
www.okudzeto.org

2005 � Present, Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Studies at The London Consortium, London University

1999- 2000 Whitney Museum Independent Program, NYC, USA
1995-1997 Royal College of Art, Master of Arts (Painting), London, UK
1991-1995 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), London, UK


Solo Exhibitions
2007 Senam Okudzeto, �Portes Oranges�,International project, PS1 MOMA, NYC, USA
2004 Ghana Must Go, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2003 Senam Okudzeto, Burrough Market, London
2000 Long Distance Lover, Dana Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
1999 Long Distance Lover, Skirt, NYC, USA


Group Exhibitions
2007 The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Cape 07, Cape Town, SA
2006 Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Gallery Cape Town , SA
2006 Dak�art, Biennale Senegal
2006 Women with Guns, National Gallery, New Orleans
2006 The Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
2005 KunstKredit, Kunsthaus Baseland, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Prologue, New Feminism, New Europe, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2005 Living for the City, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2005 Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 Prologue, New Feminism, New Europe, ESC, Graz, Austria
2004 Fela Kuti; Black President, Barbican Center, London, UK
2004 Marcia Kure. Otobong Kkanga, Senam Okudzeto, Galerie Peter Herrmann , Berlin Germany
2004 Fela Kuti; Black President, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2003 Nueva Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Fela Kuti; Black President, New Museum, New York, USA
2003 Fiction Ou Realite; Goddy Leye, Omer Fast, Senam Okudzeto, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland
2003 �Das ist Mich Velo�, Performance, Basel, Literature Festival, Switzerland
2003 The Circle Squared; Boxing in Contemporary Art, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA
2001 Claudia + Julia Muller, Olu Oguibe, Senam Okudzeto, Outtara Watts, Gorney Bravin + Lee, NYC, USA
2001 For The Record, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, USA
2001 Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, USA


Grants/Awards
2006 British Council Grant for Artists
2005 Kunstkredit Stipendium, BaselStadt
2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Research Fellowship
2004 British Council Grant for exhibitions abroad
2003-2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Research Fellowship
2003 BINZ 39, residency (feb-april), Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Stiftung Laurenz Haus, residency (jan-dec), Basel, Switzerland
2002 Pollock Krasner Award, NYC, USA
2001 Jadeas Trust, International Achievement in the Arts Award, Lagos, Nigeria
2000-2001 The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist in Residence, NYC, USA
1997 ACAVA- First Base Studio Award, London, UK
1995 Idelwilde Trust Bursary, London, UK


Projects
Founder and Director of Art in Social Structures, an artist funded NGO for arts education.