Senam Okudzeto

**Senam Okudzeto** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1972) nyɛla Americanima mini British nuchee ni baŋda n-ti pahi shikuru baŋda ŋun be Besel , London, Ghana n-ti pahi New York City.

## Biɛhigu mini tuma
Okudzeto nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so chicago,o ma daa nyɛla silimin paɣa ka o ba  nyɛ Dagbaŋ doo  ka o daa zoogi London,Chicago ni Lagos sunsuuni. O daa dɛila bachelor’s degree n zaŋ ti Slade School of Fine Art yuuni 1995 ni master’s degree zaŋ ti Royal College of Art yuuni 1997 puuni. Okudzeto daa tuɣi la  o tuma din nye  post-graduate studies din be  Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) la ni din be Whitney Museum of American Art, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University ni  doctorate din nyɛ field of Humanities mini  Cultural Studies la,zaŋ gbaai London Consortium ni Birkbeck, University of London yuuni 2022. 

## Exhibitions
*2001: *[[Freestyle Exhibition|Freestyle]],* The Studio Museum in Harlem, curated by Thelma Golden, New York, USA
*2001: *For the Record: Julie Mehretu, Senam Okudzeto and Nadine Robinson*, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, USA
*2003: *Fiction ou Realite: Goddy Leye, Omer Fast, Senam Okudzeto*, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland
*2003: *Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti,* New Museum, New York, USA, traveled to: Barbican Center, London (2004); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2004)
*2005: *Africa Remix,* curated by Simon Njami, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
*2006: *[[:it:Dak'Art 2006|Dak'art Biennale]],* Senegal (representing the US and Diaspora), Dakar, Senegal
*2007: *Senam Okudzeto, Portes-Oranges*, International Project, PS1 MoMA, NYC, USA
*2007: *Art in Social Structures; Godfried Donkor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Senam Okudzeto*, *Hawa Nicole Olai,* curated by Senam Okudzeto, Alliance Francaise, Accra, Ghana
*2009: *Capitalism and Schizophrenia,* Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
*2011: *Dance, Draw,* Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA
*2012: *The Progress of Love*, curated by Kristina Van Dyke, Bisi Silva and Susan Sutton, Menil Collection, Houston, USA
*2014: *The Politics of Food*, Delphina Foundation, London, UK
*2015: *Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms,* 14th Istanbul Biennale, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Istanbul, Turkey
*2015: *Nero Su Bianco,* American Academy in Rome, Italy
*2016: *Cinque Mostre 2016 – Across the Board; Parts of a Whole,* Ilaria Gianni with Saverio Verini, American Academy in Rome, Italy
*2016:  *Shifting Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art,* curated by Shannen Hill, with Kevin Tervala, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
*2016:  *Dada Afrika. Dialogue with the Other,* Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
*2018: *Black Value*, curated by Janine Gäelle Dieudji and Justin Randolph Thompson, Fondazione Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy
*2019: *Counter Histories of a Continent,* curated by Senam Okudzeto, Alliance Française de Lagos, Ikoyi, Nigeria
*2019: *Blind Date,* Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, curated by Elise Lammer, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
*2019: *We Wanted the Object to be the Subject (Before We Wanted the Reverse),* curated by Claire Hoffmann, Centre culturel suisse, Paris, France
*2020: *Exotic? Switzerland Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment*, curated by Noémie Etienne, Claire Brizon, Chonja Lee and Etienne Wismer, Palais du Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
*2021 *Pathologically Social*, curated by Scott Cameron Weaver, O-Townhouse Los Angeles, USA

## Writings and publications

*Senam Okudzeto, "Lyle Ashton Harris", in: *Aperture*, issue 218 (Queer), Spring 2015, Aperture Foundation, Inc., New York, pp.&nbsp;76–83.
*Senam Okudzeto et al., "Feminist Time: A Conversation, Rosalyn Deutsch, Aruna D'Souza, Miwon Kwon, Ulrike Müller, Mignon Nixon, Senam Okudzeto", in: *Grey Room*, Spring 2008, No. 31, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pp.&nbsp;32–67.
*Senam Okudzeto, "Emotive Histories; The Politics of Remembering Slavery in Contemporary Ghana", in: *Atlantic Studies*, Vol. 9, Issue 3, Routledge, 2012, pp.&nbsp;337–361.
*Senam Okudzeto, "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.
*Senam Okudzeto "Refusing the Tautological Return", JSAH Roundtable: Constructing Race and Architecture (1400–1800), Part 2, *Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians*, (2021) Vol.80 (4): pp.&nbsp;409–410
*Senam Okudzeto "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 in association with Asia Art Archive; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College; and the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg. Cornerhouse, 2022

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