Resumé

Born 1972 - Chicago, Ill, USA
Nationality Ghana/Uk/Usa

Education

2005 – Present, Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Studies at The London Consortium, London University
2003-2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Research Fellowship
1999- 2000 Whitney Museum Independent Program, NYC, USA
1995-1997 Royal College of Art, Master of Arts (Painting), London, UK
1991-1995 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), London, UK

Positions Held

2007 to Present, Founder and President 'Art in Social Structures' NGO
2005 to Present, Editorial Board, Art Journal

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Senam Okudzeto, "Portes Oranges",International project, PS1 MOMA, NYC, USA
2004 Ghana Must Go, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2003 Senam Okudzeto, Burrough Market, London
2000 Long Distance Lover, Dana Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
1999 Long Distance Lover, Skirt, NYC, USA
1999 Alive at the Fridge, The Fridge, London, UK
1998 Fresh As A Daisy, The Brickhouse, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Cape 07, Cape Town, SA
2006 Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Gallery Cape Town , SA
2006 Dak'art, Biennale Senegal
2006 Women with Guns, National Gallery, New Orleans
2006 The Whole World is Rotten, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
2005 KunstKredit, Kunsthaus Baseland, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Prologue, New Feminism, New Europe, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2005 Living for the City, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2005 Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 Prologue, New Feminism, New Europe, ESC, Graz, Austria
2004 Fela Kuti; Black President, Barbican Center, London, UK
2004 Marcia Kure. Otobong Kkanga, Senam Okudzeto, Galerie Peter Herrmann , Berlin Germany
2004 Fela Kuti; Black President, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2003 Nueva Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Fela Kuti; Black President, New Museum, New York, USA
2003 Fiction Ou Realite; Goddy Leye, Omer Fast, Senam Okudzeto, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland
2003 "Das ist Mich Velo', Performance, Basel, Literature Festival, Switzerland
2003 The Circle Squared; Boxing in Contemporary Art, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA
2003 Split; Women in Dislocation, Curatorial Centre, Bard College, USA
2003 Artists in Residence in der Scheiwz, Binz 39, Zurich, Switerland
2002 Regionale, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2002 Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina, USA
2002 Watercolour, The New York Studio School, NYC, USA
2001 Sticky Fingers; Identity, Distance Desire, ParaSite, Hong Kong
2001 Claudia + Julia Muller, Olu Oguibe, Senam Okudzeto, Outtara Watts, Gorney Bravin + Lee, NYC, USA
2001 For The Record, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, USA
2001 Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, USA
2000 Talk About Complications: (Re)presenting Women, Pratt Institute, NYC, US

Awards And Fellowships

2006 British Council Grant for Artists
2005 Kunstkredit Stipendium, BaselStadt
2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Research Fellowship
2004 British Council Grant for exhibitions abroad
2003 BINZ 39, residency (feb-april), Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Stiftung Laurenz Haus, residency (jan-dec), Basel, Switzerland
2002 Pollock Krasner Award, NYC, USA
2001 Jadeas Trust, International Achievement in the Arts Award, Lagos, Nigeria
2000-2001 The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist in Residence, NYC, USA
1997 ACAVA- First Base Studio Award, London, UK
1995 Idelwilde Trust Bursary, London, UK
1996 Slade School, Art Institute of Chicago Foreign Exchange program

Teaching Experience

2007 Visiting Lecturer, NYU Steinberg school, New York, USA
2006 Visiting Lecturer and Teaching Artist, New York University (NYU) study abroad campus in Accra, Ghana.
2005 Visiting Lecturer and Teaching Artist, New York University (NYU) study abroad campus in Accra, Ghana.
2005 Panelist, "Pleasure, Perversion, Play: Practices of Insubordination and refusals of Discipline in Art Practice and-Theory", ( Lecture Performance)College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, USA
2004 Visiting Lecturer/ Fellow, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, USA
2003 "Afro Funk Lessons", Lecture Performance and dance workshop, New Museum, New York, USA
2003 School for Gestaltung, University of Basel, "One Week Conceptual Drawing Workshop", Basel, Switzerland
2002 School for Gestaltung, University of Basel, Visiting Lecturer Basel, Switzerland
2001 PS1 Museum, Visiting Lecturer, Short Century Teaching Seminar, New York USA
2000 - 2001 The Studio Museum in Harlem. After School Educator and teaching consultant, NYC, USA
2001 Occidental College, Visiting Lecturer, Literature and Art Departments, LA, USA
2000 Loyola University, Visiting Lecturer, New Orleans, USA
2000 The Bronx Museum Community Arts Program, Teaching Artist at 'Casa Esperanza' Prison-Half way house for women (may- aug), NYC, USA
1997 The Slade School of Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer, London, UK

Permanent Collections

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, USA
Amistaad Research Center, Permanent Collection, New Orleans, USA
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Selected Publications

2004 Adbruck, Marcus Schwander Basel, Switzerland
2003 Fela Kuti; Black President, publishers, New Museum, New York, USA
2003 Twenty Years of the Binz, publishers Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
2001 Sticky Fingers, publishers ParaSite, Hong Kong
2001 Freestyle, publishers Studio Musuem in Harlem, New York, USAx
2001 For the Record, publishers Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA