EDUCATION
1998 – 2001 || BA Honours Textile Design, Bradford College of Art & Design, Bradford
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017-2019 || Beyond the Frame – Curator development programme, International Curators Forum
EXHIBITIONS – Solo Shows
2023 || Dellu, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2021 || Nude Me/Under the Skin: A Transcendence, TAFETA Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITIONS – Group Shows (selected)
2023 || Neo Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory, and Belonging, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA
2023 || Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London
2023 || Body Poetics, GIANT, Bournemouth
2022-23 || Transforming Legacies, Black Cultural Archives, London
2022 || Untitled Art Fair, Miami, Florida (USA)
2022 || EMERGE Art & Fashion Exhibit – presented by EMERGE Initiative by Naomi Campbell, Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar
2022 || Temporary Atlas, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales
2022 || NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022 || What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2022 || Temporary Atlas, Fondazione Imago Mundi – Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
2021 – 22 || Dentons Art Prize Exhibition, Dentons, London
2021 || Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity, Lychee One, London (curated by Marcelle Joseph and Enam Gbewonyo)
2021 || RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021 || Memoria, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA , Bordeaux, France
2020 || Antisocial Isolation presented by Delphian Gallery, Saatchi Gallery London
2019 II ART X Lagos Art Fair, The Federal Palace, Lagos, Nigeria
2019 || GOSSAMER, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
2018 || WE FACE FORWARD! A Celebration of Modern & Contemporary Ghanaian Art, Bonhams, London
2017 || DISPERSED: cross-cultural exchange exhibition (BBFA), Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
2016 || Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Better Living Centre, Toronto, Canada
2015 || TEDxEuston ‘Vision to Reality’ Conference, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London
2014 || AACDD Festival, Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London
2013 || Tribal Africa Exhibition, Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery, London
2012 || Art Takes Times Square Billboard Premiere, Broadway, Times Square, New York
2011 || WELOVELIKE Exhibition, Adam Street Private Members Club, London
2010 || Sugar and Spice Le Premier, Los Angeles, California
COMMISSIONS
2022 || Gardez L’Eau solo exhibition, Meeting Point/ Arts&Heritage commission, God’s House Tower, Southampton
2021 || A Vibe Called Tech/ Faber Publishing, Dear Senthuran Commission
2019 – 2021 || A Nice Cup of Tea? (collaborative commission), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
FILM
2023 || DELLU
2023 || Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls
2022 || Gardez L’Eau
2021 || Nude Me/ Under the Skin: A Resurrection of Black Women’s Visibility
FILM FESTIVALS
2023 || Experimental Dance, Music Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA
2023 || Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2022 || AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, Cannes, France|
2022 || Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2021 || Aesthetica Film Festival, York, United Kingdom
2021 || Portland Dance Film Festival, Portland, Oregon, USA
PERFORMANCES (selected)
2022 || Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls, Arts&Heritage commissioned performance in collaboration with sound artist Liz Gre, London Guildhall
2020 || We Invoke the Black. To Rest, livestream performance in collaboration with sound artist Liz Gre activating the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition, Tate Britain, London
2020 || Nude me/Under the Skin: Unbinding a path to Black Women’s healing one pantyhose at a time, Two Temple Place, London
2020 || Nude Me/ Under the Skin: Unveiling our stories, one Black NHS Nurse at a time, live stream performance for UnShut Festival
2020 || 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 for 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
2019 || 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, Italy
2019 || agbegbɔgbɔ: an activation of Senga Nengudi’s, Sandmining – Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2018 || Nude Me/ Under the Skin: Reclaiming Back Women’s Visibility one Pantyhose at a time, Costume Institute of the African Diaspora, London College of Fashion, London
WORKSHOPS
2022 || Knit in with Enam workshops, God’s House Tower, Southampton
2021 || The 3M’s to Healing online workshop, Peckham Platform, London
2021 || The Art of Handweaving – Society of Explorers & Family Workshops, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2020 || The 3M’s to Healing Workshop (Five Hides Exhibition programme), London
2020 || The Art of Handweaving IG Live Workshop, Black Minds Matter
CURATION
2021 || Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity, Lychee One, London – 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
2015 || AACDD Festival, Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London – co-curated with Abi Wright
2011 || WELOVELIKE Exhibition, Adam Street Private Members Club, London
AWARDS / COMMENDATIONS / RESIDENCIES
2022 || Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award Recipient
2022 || Dentons Art Prize Winner
2022 || Black Rock Artist Residency, Dakar, Senegal
2022 || New Art Exchange Future Exhibitions Prize Winner
2022 || 2-week artist residency, God’s House Tower, Southampton
2021 || Janome Fine Art Textiles Award Shortlist
2020 II Black Shade Projects Residency, Marrakech, Morocco
2019 II Baton Awards Highly Commended Award in the Creative Industry Category
1999 || Worshipful Company of Woolmen Award for Outstanding Achievement