AKWETEY ORRACA-TETTEH
(b.1980), New York, NY
Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh, born in Bronx, New York and based in Brooklyn and Accra (Ghana). “AK” as he is often called, is pulled by points of ancestral, cultural and digital memories colliding to abstract the organization of contemporary visual language. Through intimations of 3D technology, painting and performance, Akwetey’s work concerns the mediation of the self in the age of technological advancement and the creation of “virtual memory states.”
Akwetey’s performance work has been featured in the 55th Venice Biennial (2013), The New Museum (2014), The Museum of Modern Art (2016), and the Palais De Tokyo (2018). He has been featured in publications including Artforum, BOMB, Frieze, Rhizome, OkayAfrica and Widewalls magazine. The artist holds a BFA from Amherst College and is the recipient of the Mass Moca Artist-In-Residence and is a 2019 Visiting Artist at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Arts.
(b.1980), New York, NY
Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh, born in Bronx, New York and based in Brooklyn and Accra (Ghana). “AK” as he is often called, is pulled by points of ancestral, cultural and digital memories colliding to abstract the organization of contemporary visual language. Through intimations of 3D technology, painting and performance, Akwetey’s work concerns the mediation of the self in the age of technological advancement and the creation of “virtual memory states.”
Akwetey’s performance work has been featured in the 55th Venice Biennial (2013), The New Museum (2014), The Museum of Modern Art (2016), and the Palais De Tokyo (2018). He has been featured in publications including Artforum, BOMB, Frieze, Rhizome, OkayAfrica and Widewalls magazine. The artist holds a BFA from Amherst College and is the recipient of the Mass Moca Artist-In-Residence and is a 2019 Visiting Artist at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Arts.