Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: 18/09/1981

Place of Birth: Ho, Volta, Ghana

Nationality: Ghanaian

Education

Professions/Job

Upcoming Performances /Exhibitions/ Projects:

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Performance/Exhibitions

2018

“Voyage” Mindelact Festival, Cape Verde
Performance Project and workshop, Cologne, Germany (In progress)
“The oatH_c” Geneva, Switzerland
strikethrough, Slow Sunday, Steakhouse, London
“ouTcasT” The Rising’ ]Performance Space[ Folkestone, UK
“The oatH_b” Munich, Germany
‘Untitled’ Berlin, Germany
froZen series LagosPhotos Festival
‘the oatH’ Performance Series New Oerlikon, Zurich,
“agbaWnu” at Chalewote Art Festival Accra Gh.
‘Lying awake’ Watermill Centre, New York, USA
Passing Through-Act of Radical Empathy, Gallery 1957, Accra Ghana
forgotten truth, participating in “Past Tells” a group show at Alliance Francaise Kumasi Ghana, curated by Michael Babanawo
dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBikus, Oduom, Kumasi Ghana
wouNded-wouNd, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2017

How The Stars Were Made, Legon Botanical Garden, Accra, Ghana (A collaborative project (AfriQueer) with Drama for Life AFRICA Project from South Africa.)
nativeimmiGrant III – efiewurasuame, ICAF2017 Iwaya, Lagos Nigeria
inthemiddleofNowhere, Ruffi Haus Munich Germany
The specter[less] specters - find the X, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
nativeimmiGrant II, Villa Waldberta, Munich Germany
iNisheahim, Villa Waldberta, Munich Germany
stillDeath, Break Through #19 Munich Germany
Bond[H2o], Duo performance by crazinisT artisT [Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi] & John Herman CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival 2017 'WATA MATA' James Fort Prison, Accra, Ghana
nativeimmiGrant, Performance at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) 17th Triennial Symposium 2017
illiGalbody II, Black Star International Art Festival, Accra
nazaKU, Accra, (Orderly Disorderly, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi)
IlleGalbody, KNUST, Kumasi
lettertotheChuRch I, KNUST Catholic Church, Kumasi
lettertotheChuRch II, Roman Hill Catholic Church, Kumasi
Rituals of Becoming, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana

2016

rE·gen·er·at[e] Bone 19 Performance Art Festival, Bern
chocolate kiss, Duo performance with Jazmin Taco, Schlachthaus, Bern Switzerland
myBodyisaPrison... KNUST, Kumasi Ghana
‘frozen’ Cornfields in Accra’, (Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi
X in REd, ‘if you love me’... exhibition, Kumasi, Ghana
‘eAt me...’, performance with voluntary participating Students from the Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
reThinking-naZa, collaborative performance with the Security Department of KNUST, Ghana

2015

Triptych, collaborative performance with Natascia Siverio and Dean Hutton, Chale Wote Art festival, Jamestown, Ghana
pieta- afriCan resurrect, collaborative performance with Natascia Siverio, Chale Wote Art festival, Jamestown, Ghana
Broken Exile, Lome, Togo
BookofLive -In the Absence of our Gods, (on-going project) Lome, Togo
The Return of the Slaves, collaboration with volunteers, Elmina Castle, Ghana
Voyage, the Gown must go to Town Exhibition organised by blaxTARLINES, Science and Technology Museum Accra, Ghana
Stench of Silence, Silence between the Lines exhibition, Kumasi, Ghana, Eye Contemporary and blaxTARLINES
2014
The Borders, collaboration with Natascia Silverio, Saint Joseph College, Lomé, Togo
Gbugbordzi, Gbossimé (Goat market), Lomé, Togo
reThinking-naZa, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana
Life Sex-series, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Crucifix Crises, Lake Bosomtwe, Ghana
The First Last Supper, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
That’s Why You are Mad, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Crucifix-series, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Still Birth African Gender, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Long Walk, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

2013

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/FESTIVALS

2018

2017

Bond HO2, Chale Wote Art Festival, Accra, Ghana Selected Exhibitions
Orderly Disorderly, (nazaKU, 2014-2017, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi)
Rituals of Becoming, (Solo show, Gallery 1957, Ghana)

2016

Bone 19, (performance art Festival, Bern, Switzerland)
‘Cornfields in Accra’, (frozen, 2016 Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi
‘if you love me ...’ exhibition, (x in REd, 2016), Locomotive shed, Kumasi, Ghana.

2015

Chalewote Art Festival, African Electronics, Jamestown, Accra, Ghana
TERRITOIRE DE CRÉATION 5ieme édition, Residency in Lome, Togo
Protest, Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
The return of the Slaves, Elmina Castle, Ghana
The Gown must go to Town, Science and Technology Museum, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi
Silence between the Lines, PML, Kumasi Ghana by blaxTARLINES and EYE Contemporary

2014

Chalewote Art Festival, voluntary participant in Street Performance with Kwame Write, James Town, Accra, Ghana
KNUST End of Year Show, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
KNUST Final Year Exhibition, Dept. of Painting and Sculpture Kumasi, Ghana

Residencies and workshops

2018 (October)-The Rising ]Performance Space[ Folkestone UK, (upcoming)
2018 (July-August)- Watermills Summer Program, New York, USA
2017 (October-December)- Beyond Rituals, Villa Walberta, Munich, Germany
2015 (July-August)- TERRITOIRE DE CRÉATION 5ieme édition, Residency in Lome, Togo
2014 - Inkfluent’s Chalewote (Because the Ancestors Live), Poetry Workshop, Accra, Ghana

Grants/Sponsorship

2017 Prince Claus Fund, for Participating in Lost & Found performance Event, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL
2017-Goethe Institute Travel Fund: to attend a five-week Artist Residency, Munich, Germany

External Links

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