SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY

ACCRA, GHANA 1985

Serge Attukwei Clottey is an artist living and working in Accra, Ghana. Working primarily in sculpture, photography, installation, and performance, Clottey has received international acclaim and recognition for his radically unique revisioning of scrap materials.

Often working with readily-available discarded plastics found near his home of Accra, Ghana, Clottey shapes, cuts, weaves, and binds refuse into vibrant and vital reimagined art objects. Tactile and formally beautiful, Clottey’s sculptures, installations, garments and masks point to the unabiding human need to create.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Distinctive Gestures, Gallery 1957, London, UK
2021 Beyond Skin, Simchowitz, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Sensitive Balance, Gnyp, Berlin, Germany
2020 Routes, The Mistake Room at The Platform, Culver City,
2020 Los Angeles, CA
2020 Adesa We, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
2019 Sometime In Your Life, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy
2019 Solo Chorus, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Foundation,
2019 Oslo, Norway
2018 Solo presentation with Gallery 1957 at UNTITLED, Miami, FL
2018 Differences Between, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Defying the Narrative, Ever Gold [Projects], San
2018 Francisco, CA
2018 The Displaced, Gallery 1957 at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery,
2018 Dubai, UAE
2017 Gallery 1957 at Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Gallery 1957 at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New
2017 York, NY
2017 Burning in Water w/ Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, New York, NY
2016 My Mother’s Wardrobe, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
2016 Hand to Mouth, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
2016 Earthly Conversations, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016 Solo presentation w/ Gallery 1957 at 1:54 Contemporary
2016 African Art Fair, London, UK
2015 The Displaced, Mesler/Feuer, New York, NY
2008 Global Warming (Featured Project), British Council,
2008 Accra, Ghana
2008 Portrait of Accra, Junior Art Club Sponsorship, Bristol, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France
2021 Desert X, Curated by Cesar Garcia and Neville
2021 Wakefield, Palm Desert, CA
2021 Kugarisana, Simchowitz at Christie’s Beverly Hills, CA
2020 Radical Revisionists, The Moody Center, Rice University,
2020 Houston, TX
2020 Materiality, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape
2020 Town, South Africa
2019 Fabrica, Brighton Festival, UK
2019 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
2017 Atsala Tsala (A Selection of Contemporary African Art),
2017 Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2017 Untitled Group Show, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Group Show, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Practical Common Sense, Chale Wote Street Art Festival,
2016 Accra, Ghana
2015 Spielzeiteröffnung 2015: We Don’t Contemporary Festival,Hamburg, Germany
2015 What is Matter, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
2015 The Silence of Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, LosAngeles, CA
2014 Colour Unfinished, 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo,Marseille, France
2014 Migration Messages, Collective Realities of African
2014 Migration, Werkstätten-nd Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
2014 Global Art Local View, European Monument Day, MohrVilla, Münich, Germany
2014 MULTIPOINT, The International Art Symposium, Nitra,
2014 Slovakia
2014 African Contemporary Photography, The Auction Room &
2014 Serge Attukwei Clottey
2014 Ozwald Boateng, London, UK
2014 Masked/Unmasked, DAK’ART – 11th Biennale de l’Art
2014 Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
2014 ‘Colour Unfinished, Du Bois In Our Time II,’ University ofAmherst
2014 Nubuke Foundation and the Du Bois Centre, Accra,Ghana
2013 Muses, Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
2013 Art Speaks, Werkstätten-und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
2013 Inside The Mosquito Net, Alliance Française, Accra, Ghana
2013 We Are Africa, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
2012 Time, Trade & Travel, Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, Denmark
2012 The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
2012 Alternative Independence Day Celebration, Freedom Tour, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
2012 Inside The Mosquito Net, Brazil House, Jamestown, Ghana
2011 Cultures in Confluence, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
2011 Trash To Treasure, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra, Ghana
2011 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

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 & HONORS

Doctor of Arts, University of Brighton, UK