Senam Okudzeto

Dr. Senam Okudzeto is a British-American artist of U.S and Ghanaian parentage. Her work incorporates art practice, writing and scholarly research in responses to previously overlooked socio-economic and political histories within a discourse on feminism, African modernity and a general analysis of material culture. She was the 2018–2019 Visiting Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) and is the Founder and Director of the NGO Art in Social Structures (AiSS), an experimental platform for education in the Arts. Okudzeto has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College, London University, as well as an MFA (Painting), Royal College of Art London, and BA (Painting) from Slade School of Fine Art, London University and completed the Whitney Museum ISP. She has held a Fellowship at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, The Edith Bloom/Jesse Howard Jr. Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome and is the winner of the 2023 Paul Boesch Art Prize.


(Stand: Oktober 2023)