Lives in Accra, Ghana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 TETTEH NTENI, Simchowitz DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Crossroads, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK 2022
Stimulation of Consciousness, Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Tribe and Tribulation, The Line, London, UK
Shooting at Hunger, Kew Gardens, London, UK
Erased Past, BRIGADE, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gold Falls, Desert X, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
The Bodies Left Behind, Ritz-Carlton South Beach, Miami, FL
2021 Distinctive Gestures, Gallery 1957, London, UK
Beyond Skin, Simchowitz, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Sensitive Balance, Gnyp, Berlin, Germany
Routes, The Mistake Room at The Platform,
Culver City, Los Angeles, CA
Adesa We, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
2019 Sometime In Your Life, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy
Solo Chorus, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Foundation, Oslo, Norway
2018 Solo presentation with Gallery 1957 at UNTITLED, Miami, FL
Differences Between, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
Defying the Narrative, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
The Displaced, Gallery 1957 at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2017 Gallery 1957 at Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
Gallery 1957 at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, NY
Burning in Water w/ Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, New York, NY
2016 My Mother's Wardrobe, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
Hand to Mouth, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
Earthly Conversations, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany Solo
presentation w/ Gallery 1957 at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK
2015 The Displaced, Mesler/Feuer, New York, NY
2008 Global Warming (Featured Project), British Council, Accra, Ghana
Portrait of Accra, Junior Art Club Sponsorship, Bristol, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Reversed Safari, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Speed of Grace, Simões de Assis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Agbumite, 360 Projects GH in Collaboration with La Dade- Kotopon
Municipal Assembly, Accra, Ghana
Sea Never Dries, Simon Lee Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland
Acts of Gathering, The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
The Laboratory of the Future, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Lost And Found, Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland
2022 The Storytellers, Gallery 1957, London, UK
Color of The Times, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Contemporary African Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2021 La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France
Desert X, Curated by Cesar Garcia and Neville Wakefield, Palm Desert, CA
Kugarisana, Simchowitz at Christie's Beverly Hills, CA
2020 Radical Revisionists, The Moody Center, Rice University, Houston, TX
Materiality, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 Fabrica, Brighton Festival, UK
Tradition Interrupted, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2018 Art Los Angeles Contemporary w/ Ever Gold [Projects], Los Angeles, CA
2017 Dans Un Ciel Ensoleille, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Atsala Tsala (A Selection of Contemporary African Art),
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Untitled Group Show, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Practical Common Sense, Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Accra, Ghana
2015 Spielzeiteröffnung 2015: We Don't Contemporary Festival, Hamburg, Germany
What is Matter, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
The Silence of Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Colour Unfinished, 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France
Migration Messages, Collective Realities of African Migration,
Werkstätten-nd Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
Global Art Local View, European Monument Day, Mohr- Villa, Münich, Germany
MULTIPOINT, The International Art Symposium, Nitra, Slovakia
African Contemporary Photography, The Auction Room &
Ozwald Boateng, London, UK
Masked/Unmasked, DAK'ART - 11th Biennale de l'Art Africain
Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
'Colour Unfinished, Du Bois In Our Time II,' University of Amherst,
Nubuke Foundation and the Du Bois Centre, Accra, Ghana
2013 Muses, Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
Art Speaks, Werkstätten-und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
Inside The Mosquito Net, Alliance Française, Accra, Ghana
We Are Africa, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
2012 Time, Trade & Travel, Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
Alternative Independence Day Celebration, Freedom Tour,
Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
Inside The Mosquito Net, Brazil House, Jamestown, Ghana
2011 Cultures in Confluence, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
Trash To Treasure, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
Climate Change, Caspar House, Accra, Ghana
2009 Africa Show, African Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy
2008 Untying the Human Spirit, CAN 2008, Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Gale, Sammi. "Crossroads", Plinth UK. March 1, 2023.
2022 Jana, Rosalind. "Louise Bourgeois and how old clothes can haunt us",
BBC Style. April 6, 2022.
2021 Jamal, Ashraf. "Beyond Skin? Ashraf Jamal reflects on
Serge Attukwei Clottey's recent solo", Art Africa Magazine. May 21, 2021.
Keh, Pei-Ru. "Serge Attukwei Clottey on fashion, gender and unexpected
art", Wallpaper. May 4, 2021.
Fontaine, Pearl. "Serge Attukwei Clottey, from Afrogallonism to Duct
Tape Portraiture", whitewall, April 2021.
Berardini, Andrew. "Dry Goods", Artforum, April 2 Looseleaf, Victoria.
"Serge Attukwei Clottey Exploring Issues of Belonging and Place",
Art Now LA, April 17, 2021.
Knight, Christopher. Review: Desert X has a great big wall. Beyond that,
this art biennial feels thin", Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2021.
Quinn Olivar, Amanda. "SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY" Curator, March, 2021.
Finkel, Jori. "Desert X Artists Dig Beneath the Sandy Surface",
The New York Times, March 12, 2021.
Glentzer, Molly. "Contemporary African artists shine in
'Radical Revisionists' show", Houston Chronicle, January 30, 2021.
Brady, Anna and Carrigan Margaret. "Private view: must-see
gallery shows opening in January", The Art Newspaper, January 6, 2021.
2019 Caldwell, Erica. "To Go Local." BOMB magazine, August 26, 2019.
Can, Gülnaz. "The Migration of Yellow Plastica Gallons."
Wall Street International Magazine, 29 April, 2019.
Donoghue, Katy. "Serge Attukwei Clottey Uses Performance to
Address Political, Social, and Local Issues." Whitewall, 3 April, 2019.
Harpers Bazaar Arabia Art (cover), July, 2019.
2018 Donoghoe, Katy. 'SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY'S "TIME AFTER TIME',
Whitewall Magazine.
Chase, Dylan. 'If this jerrycan could talk', Flaunt Magazine.
Gotthardt, Alexxa. 'Serge Attukwei Clottey Is Creating a Real-Life
Yellow Brick Road in Accra', Artsy.
'n pictures: Follow Ghana's 'yellow-brick road', BBC News.
'Ghanaian artist making art for Facebook HQ from plastic waste', BBC World.
2017 Nnadi, Chioma. 'This Artist Is Wearing His Mother's Clothing to Promote Social
' Change in Ghana', Vogue Magazine.
2016 Frizzell, Nell. 'Serge Attukwei Clottey: 'the artist urging African men to dress
as Women', The Guardian.
Brownell Mitic, Ginanne. 'Technology Expands the World for African Artists',
The New York Times.
' Can Art Change the World?', BBC World Service.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kunstmuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands Modern Forms, UK
Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
Seth Dei Foundation, Accra, Ghana
The World Bank Collection, Washington D.C., US Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
Doctor of Arts, University of Brighton, UK