SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Interior view of a home with two black knit scarves hanging on the wall, one on a circular mirror and the other on the wall.
A silver circular mirror with a galaxy pattern reflection, decorated with a black web and netting, surrounded by a black chunky-knit yarn, and intertwined with thin string lights, placed against a blue background.
A white art gallery wall decorated with black bat and spider web Halloween themed art, featuring one large spider web and a black silhouette of a bat, with some smaller bat and spider figures arranged on the wall.

NUDE ME/UNDER THE SKIN: DARK STARS INSTALLATION VIEWS (2024, TAFETA Gallery, London, UK):
L - R, Afterlife of a Dying Star - Gold dust, The Darkest Energy within the Blackest Hole, Luminous Black Matter II, Omnipresence of Black Body's Curve - Polyptych and Casting the Cosmic Web. Photos: Pedro Lima.

  • Display of four macrame wall hangings on a red wall, varying in color from cream to red to blue, with the largest in the center and decorated with beads or chains.
  • Art exhibit featuring three mannequins dressed in colorful, textured clothing, in front of a large seaside photograph with rocks and waves, on an orange platform in a gallery space.
  • Art gallery with two sculptures on white and red walls, one made of fabric and attached to a hanger on the right, and another smaller piece on the left, with a text panel in the center.
  • Dark art gallery with a large screen projecting a beach scene and the word 'DELLU'. On the left, a wooden wall with abstract art installations. A sofa is visible in the foreground.
  • A large, circular woven textile artwork displayed in a white and orange exhibition case on a black floor.
  • Two textile art pieces displayed on a white and orange gallery walls. The left piece is a dark, textured, torn fabric with white and gray accents, mounted on white wall. The right piece is a woven, net-like structure in a beige color, mounted on an orange wall.
  • Two digital screens mounted on a white gallery wall, each with a pair of headphones hanging below. Two red benches are placed in front of the displays, and the gallery has a concrete floor with a ceiling featuring track lighting.
  • Outdoor art exhibition featuring photographs displayed on white panels in front of a dark brick building with a sign that reads "new art exchange." The photographs depict people, including close-up portraits. The building has large windows and a sign for an artist named Erasm Gbenwoyo, also known as Delli.

DELLU INSTALLATION VIEWS (2023, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK):
Slide 1; L - R, Xob (Plant) Altar I & II, Suuf (Earth) Altar II, Ndox (Water) Altar I & II, Slide 2; Dellu Costumes - Water (Ndox), Red Earth (Suuf), Plant (Xob), Slide 3; Suuf (Earth) Altar I and, Slide 4: Film Room, Slide 5; The Third Eye, Slide 6: Resting Black Face I and Invisibility Cloak, Slide 6; Second film viewing space, Slide 7: View of exterior exhibition signage. Photos: Tom Morley.

Art gallery with a blue wall, three textile art pieces hanging, colorful paintings, and a sculpture of a pink head on a white pedestal, with a large rectangular skylight and bright overhead lighting.
An art gallery with blue walls and gray floors displays various artworks, including colorful textiles, sculptures, and photographs.

RITES OF PASSAGE INSTALLATION VIEWS (2023, Gagosian London, UK):
Colonialist Ravelry, an infection of mind, skin and being. Blackness hangs on, a determined survival and Resting Black Face I alongside works by (L-R) Emily Moore, Ayesha Feisal, Michaela Yearwood-Dan and Asiko Artist. Photo: Lucy Dawkins.

Art installation resembling a large spider web made of black ropes, with a central brown object on a white wall in an art gallery.
A wooden geometric sculpture with intricate, web-like structures displayed on a white pedestal in an art gallery, with black and beige abstract wall art on the white walls.
Gallery wall featuring three black and white photographs of person with long hair, each enclosed in black frames, hanging on a white gallery wall with light wood flooring.

BODY POETICS INSTALLATION VIEWS (2023, GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth, UK):
L-R, Colonial ties – unbound paired with Senga Nengudi, Performance Piece, 1978 (original photography by Harmon Outlaw). Photos: James Stewart.

TEMPORARY ATLAS INSTALLATION VIEW (2022, Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK):
L - R, A cosmos within - the infinite black, SOURCE, Teetering on the edge of visibility, the invisible disguised as visible IV, Re-asserting the black feminine, The Ascension of the Nude, The Empire has new clothes, a history rewritten in the Black II and Masked in the sheer audacity of Chicago's perceptions of blackness and womanhood, BLACK.
Photo: Rob Battersby Photography

EARTH MEMORY & THE SPACES WE INHABIT INSTALLATION VIEWS (2025, NOW Gallery, London, UK):
L, Amedada ƒe lɔ̃lɔ̃ kple ŋku ɖoɖo le avɔ me I & II, (A mother’s love and memory in cloth I & II) in conversation with archival and contemporary artists’ work R, Amedada ƒe lɔ̃lɔ̃ kple ŋku ɖoɖo le avɔ me I, detail, (A mother’s love and memory in cloth I, detail). Exhibited as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Photos: Alberto Romano.