EDUCATION
2024 – 2026 MFA Art Practice, Stanford University, California, USA
1998 – 2001 BA Honours Textile Design, Bradford College of Art & Design, Bradford, UK
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017-2019 Beyond the Frame: Curatorial development programme, International Curators Forum, London, UK
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
2021 Nude Me/Under the Skin: A Transcendence, TAFETA Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITIONS – Group Shows (selected)
2026
Second Hole Second Wave, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, California, USA
Salt of the Earth, Strike Slip Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2025
MEMORIA – récits d’une autre histoire, MUNCAB, Salvador, Brazil
Soft Power, Royal West Academy, Bristol, UK
Desire & Duty, Coulter Gallery, Stanford University, California, 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, USA
Rites of Passage, Gagosian London, UK
Body Poetics, GIANT, Bournemouth, 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, Musée des Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungara, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles, Murray Edwards College, 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 (curated by Marcelle Joseph and Enam Gbewonyo)
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Memoria, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA , Bordeaux, France
2020
Antisocial Isolation presented by Delphian Gallery, Saatchi Gallery London
2019
ART X Lagos Art Fair, The Federal Palace, Lagos, Nigeria
GOSSAMER, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK
A Nice Cup of Tea? (collaborative commission), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2018 WE FACE FORWARD! A Celebration of Modern & Contemporary Ghanaian Art, Bonhams, London, UK
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
FILM FESTIVALS
2023
Experimental Dance, Music Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2022
AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, Cannes, France|
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2021
Aesthetica Film Festival, York, United Kingdom
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
Nude me/Under the Skin: Unbinding a path to Black Women’s healing one pantyhose at a time, Two Temple Place, London
Nude Me/ Under the Skin: Unveiling our stories, one Black NHS Nurse at a time, live stream performance for UnShut Festival
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
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
agbegbɔgbɔ: an activation of Senga Nengudi’s, Sandmining, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
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< UK
WORKSHOPS
2022 Knit in with Enam workshops, God’s House Tower, Southampton
2021
The 3M’s to Healing online workshop, Peckham Platform, London, UK
The Art of Handweaving – Society of Explorers & Family Workshops, 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
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
AACDD Festival, Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London – co-curated with Abi Wright
2011 WELOVELIKE Exhibition, Adam Street Private Members Club, London
AWARDS / COMMENDATIONS / RESIDENCIES (selected)
2024 Fondation H Artist Residency, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2023 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2022
Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award Recipient
Dentons Art Prize Winner
Black Rock Artist Residency, Dakar, Senegal
New Art Exchange Future Exhibitions Prize Winner
2020 Black Shade Projects Residency, Marrakech, Morocco
PUBLICATIONS
2023 VOICES – GHANA’S ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS
PRESS (selected)
2024 Christie’s, British Ghanaian Artist Enam Gbewonyo
2023
Art Monthly, Enam Gbewonyo – Profile, Issue 472 Dec – Jan 23-24
Artsy, 10 Black Artists Working in Abstraction
Body Poetics exhibition review, Art Monthly, Issue 466: May
House Collective, Reclaiming History: The artist Enam Gbewonyo on radical self-discovery and dismantling beauty tropes
2022 Guardian Saturday, Issue 48, 27 August 2022, Redrawing the boundaries article
2021
Roundtable Journal, Three women on art as identity exploration
L’Œil France, Summer 2021 issue, Splendides “récits d’une autre historie”
Le Courrier de l’Atlas, June 2021 issues, Une Mémoire de l’Afrique au Féminin
Contemporary And, Memoria: Account of another history
Beaux Arts, February 2021 issue, Toutes afro-féministes
Harpers Bazaar, February 2021 issue, Family Lines – Making A Mark
2020
FAD magazine online interview
PejuOshin.com, Home from Home: Reclaim, Embalm & Awaken
2019
Independent, The exhibition that uses women‘s hosiery to tell a story
The New York Times, Pantyhose That Make You Think – GOSSAMER Exhibition Review
Financial Times, Light as air, tough as boots: pantyhose in art
NATAAL Interview
London Live: We Sing The Body Electric Interview
NATAAL, Venice Biennale 2019