Senam Okudzeto

Photo: Philipp Gasser

Senam Okudzeto, Ph.D, is a British-American artist, educator, writer and occasional curator of U.S and Ghanaian descent.

Her practice merges painting, film, installation, social sculpture, writing and scholarly research to present forgotten or unnoticed forms of material culture as carriers of lost or hidden histories. Okudzeto is the originator and co-curator of the exhibition ‘Fun Feminism’, at Kunstmuseum Basel (2022).

Solo exhibitions include; We wanted the Object to be the Subject (Before We Wanted the Reverse), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2020; Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Lakeside Klagenfurt (2009); Portes-Oranges, PS1 MoMA, (2007). Group shows include Stranger in the Village: Reflecting on Racism with James Baldwin, Aargauer Kunsthaus,(2023) ; Exotic? Regarder l’ailleurs en Suisse au siècle des Lumières (2020), Saltwater,14th Istanbul Biennale, (2015); DadaAfrika, Museum Rietberg, (2016).

Okudzeto’s has served on the editorial board of CAA’s Art Journal and published numerous texts such as “Does the Plantation End When the Market Begins”, in Nana Adusei Poku, (ed.) Reshaping the Field, Art of the African Diasporas on Display. Exhibition Histories 13. Published by Afterall, (2022) and “Remembering African Cities: Rethinking Urban Conservation as Radical Public History”, in Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation, Eds. Cody & Siravo, Readings in Conservation Series, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, (2019).  She is winner of the annual Paul Boesch Award, Bern (2023), one of the highest endowed prizes in Switzerland.