CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2026 MFA Art Practice (candidate), Stanford University, CA, USA (expected June 2026)
2019 Beyond the Frame – Curator development programme, International Curators Forum, London, UK
2001 BA Honours European Textile Design, Bradford College of Art & Design, Bradford, UK
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES (selected)
2025 Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Scholarship Award (Cadogan Award)
2024 Fondation H Artist Residency, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2023 Bemis Center Artist in Residence, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2023 Elephant Trust Grant
2022 Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award
2022 Black Rock Senegal Artist Residency, Dakar, Senegal
2022 New Art Exchange Future Exhibition Prize Winner
2021/22 Dentons Art Prize Winner
2020 Black Shade Projects Artist residency, Marrakech, Morocco
1999 Worshipful Company of Woolmen Award for Outstanding Achievement
EXHIBITIONS: Solo Shows
2024 Nude Me/Under the Skin: Dark Stars, TAFETA Gallery, London, UK
2023 DELLU, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2022 Gardez L’Eau, Meeting Point - Arts & Heritage commission, God’s House Tower, Southampton, UK
2021 Nude Me/Under the Skin: A Transcendence, TAFETA Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITIONS: Group Shows (selected)
2026 Second Hole Second Wave, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, USA
Salt of the Earth, Strike Slip Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2025 MEMORIA - récits d’une autre histoire, MUNCAB, Salvador, Brazil
Soft Power, Royal West Academy, Bristol, UK
Desire & Duty, Coulter Gallery, Stanford University, CA, USA
2024 MEMORIA - récits d’une autre histoire, Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2023 Neo Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory, and Belonging, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA
Rites of Passage, Gagosian London, London, UK
MEMORIA - récits d’une autre histoire, Musée National du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroun
2022 EMERGE Exhibition & Auction, Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar
NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
MEMORIA - récits d’une autre histoire, Musée des Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungara, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Temporary Atlas, Fondazione Imago Mundi - Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy & Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK
2021 Dentons Art Prize Exhibition, Dentons, London, UK
Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity, Lychee One, London, UK
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
MEMORIA - récits d’une autre histoire, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France
2020 Antisocial Isolation presented by Delphian Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2019 GOSSAMER, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK
A Nice Cup of Tea? collaborative commission with Lois Muddiman, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2018 BBFA Presents, TAFETA Gallery, London, UK
WE FACE FORWARD! A Celebration of Modern & Contemporary Ghanaian Art, Bonhams, London, UK
2017 DISPERSED: cross-cultural exchange exhibition (BBFA), Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
2015 TEDxEuston ‘Vision to Reality’ Conference exhibition, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London, UK
2014 AACDD Festival, Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London, UK
2013 Tribal Africa, Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery, London, UK
2012 Art Takes Times Square Billboard Premiere, Broadway, Times Square, New York, USA
2011 WELOVELIKE, Adam Street Private Members Club, London, UK
2010 Sugar and Spice Le Premier, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ART FAIRS (selected)
2024 TEFAF Maastricht, MECC, Maastricht, Netherlands
2023 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK2022 || Untitled Art Fair, Miami, USA
2019 ART X Lagos Art Fair, The Federal Palace, Lagos, Nigeria
2016 Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Better Living Centre, Toronto, Canada
PERFORMANCE (selected)
2022 Gardez L’Eau, God’s House Tower, Southampton
Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls, Arts&Heritage commissioned performance in collaboration with sound artist Gre, London Guildhall, London, UK
2020 We Invoke the Black. To Rest, livestream performance in collaboration with sound artist Gre activating the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition, Tate Britain, London, UK
Nude me/Under the Skin: Unbinding a path to Black Women’s healing one pantyhose at a time, Two Temple Place, London, UK
Nude Me/ Under the Skin: The Embalming of Black Women’s Visibility one Pantyhose at a time, Dar Bellarj, Marrakech, Morocco. Presented by Black Shade Projects & 1-54 African Art
Fair Marrakech public programme
2019 Nude Me/ Under the Skin: The Awakening of Black Women’s Visibility one Pantyhose at a time, Part II - Christie’s Lates: Women in the Arts event, Christie’s, London, UK
Nude Me/ Under the Skin: The Awakening of Black Women’s Visibility one Pantyhose at a time, The Palace of Ritual, Palazzo Donà, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
agbegbɔgbɔ: activation of Senga Nengudi’s, Sandmining presented by Henry Moore Institute in collaboration with ICF, Leeds, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 MEMORIA, edited by Marie Doumerc, Hobisoa Raininoro and Margaux Huile, Belgium, Fondation H/Graphius, 2024, pp.124-127 - catalogue
2023 VOICES – GHANA’S ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS, edited by Shiraz Randeria, UK, Twentyfour Thirtysix, 2023, pp 106-107
2021 MEMORIA: Tales of a Different History, edited by Nadine Hounkpatin, Céline Seror, Bordeaux, Frac Aquitaine/Actes Sud - catalogue
ARTIST TALKS (selected)
2025 Reclaiming Culture Film Screening & Artist Talk, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Preserving Heritage through Weaving & Textiles, TEFAF Talks Programme, TEFAF Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
2024 The Impact of Art in the Visibility and Representation of Black Women, Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Highlighting Artists with Purpose, Black Rock Senegal Dak’Art #OFFISON Programme, Pullman Teranga Hotel, Dakar, Senegal
2023 Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory, and Belonging – Artist Talk with Enam Gbewonyo, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE, USA
DELLU: Artist Talk with Enam Gbewonyo, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
WORKSHOPS
2022 Knit in with Enam workshops, God’s House Tower, Southampton, UK
2021 The 3M’s to Healing online workshop, Peckham Platform, London, UK
The Art of Handweaving Online Workshops: Society of Explorers & Family Groups, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2020 The 3M’s to Healing Workshop (Five Hides Exhibition programme), London, UK
The Art of Handweaving IG Live Workshop, Black Minds Matter, London, UK
FILM FESTIVALS (selected)
2025 ASVOFF Film Festival, Paris, France UK Fashion Film Festival, London, UK
2024 London Independent Film Festival, London, UK2023 || Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2022 AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, Cannes, France
2021 Aesthetica Film Festival, York, United Kingdom Portland Dance Film Festival, Portland, Oregon, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity, Lychee One, London, UK – co-curated with Marcelle Joseph
2017 DISPERSED: cross-cultural exchange exhibition, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana – co-curated with Samira Saidi
2015 TEDxEuston ‘Vision to Reality’ Conference, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London, UK
2015 AACDD Festival, Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London, UK – co-curated with Abi Wright
2011 WELOVELIKE, Adam Street Private Members Club, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Harry David Art Collection
White & Case LLP International Law Firm, London, UK
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), London, UK
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
TAFETA Gallery, London, UK