AKWETEY ORRACA-TETTEH
Born May 29th, 1980. New York, NY. B.F.A. Amherst College. Lives and works in Mexico City and Accra
ON VIEW /// OCTOBER 6 - JANUARY 24 ACCRA! THE RISE OF A GLOBAL ART COMMUNITY!, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 WESTERN RETREAT , Galería Karen Huber, Mexico CIty
2022 THE SOUND OF LEAVING, Galería Karen Huber, Mexico CIty
2018 EMOTIONAL APPLICATIONS, The Naftali Building for the Arts. Chelsea, NY
2017 ISOTROPIC CONDITIONS, Chashama, Times Square, NY
2017 BLUE STEAL at Okayplayer’s OKAYSPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2016 TIRO: MILLENNIAL SOLDIER, The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, NY
2016 ULTRAMERICANS, Ludlow Studios, Chinatown, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 DIGITAL HUMANITY: PLAN8TAIR HUNAN, CHINA
2019 Uncorked, Montclair Art Museum
2019 Portrait of an Egg, Photo London, Somerset House, London
2018-2019 LANDSCAPE, Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Amref ARTBALL, New York, NY
2018 THE MESSAGE: NEW MEDIA WORKS, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
2018 MODERN MONDAYS, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
2018 LOVE ISABELA, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, NY
2018 100 WORKS, Artnoir, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Tuesday (Voice), Days are Dogs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2017 If Wishes Were Horses (Voice), Kunsthalle Vienna
2017 Artsy/AMREF ARTBALL, Milk Gallery. New York, NY
2015-2016 Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MOMA, New York
2016 Pearly’s Beauty Shop, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Valium Valentine, MOMA PS1 Queens, NY
2016 NYE at Pioneerworks, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Festival of Future Nows, Institut für Raumexperimente. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2014 Inside/Out Soho, NY
2014 Poem a Day, Museum Mu.Zee. Oostende, Belgium
2013- Grosse Fatigue (voice, performance). Video, 13 min. Directed by Camille Henrot
The Museum of Modern Art (NY)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY)
Tate Modern Museum, London.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Musée d’art Contemporaín de Montreal
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013 The Restless Earth (voice), The New Museum, NY
2013 The Encyclopedic Palace, Grosse Fatigue (voice), 55th Venice Biennale
2012 If You Can Read This You Haven’t Had Enough, A.M. 180 Gallery, Czech Republic
2011 Tomodachi Calling, Tokyo
WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
2019 The Brooklyn Rail, “Finding Up” by Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Visiting Artist, New York University
2017 Mass Moca Artist-in-Residence
2016 Creative Capital Intensive
COLLECTIONS
Grosse Fatigue: Camille Henrot (Director), Jacob Bromberg (Text), Joakim Bouaziz (Music), Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh (Voice). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, Nouveau Musée National De Monaco, Musée D’Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY
King, Daniel “Sonny Rollins on the Pandemic, Protests, and Music”. The New Yorker, June 2020
Chayka, Kyle “Grosse Fatigue” Tells the Story of Life on Earth”. The New Yorker, July 2020
Russeth, Andrew “The Most Important Artworks of the 2010s”, ArtNews, December, 2019
Orraca-Tetteh, Akwetey “Finding Up”. Brooklyn Rail, February, 2019
Isama, Antoinette “Ghanaian-American Artist Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh Tells a Tale of Liberty
and Theft with ‘BLUE STEAL’. OkayAfrica, May, 2017
Barron, Michael “Artists in Conversation”, BOMB Magazine, January, 2106
Fiumelli, Federica: “Grosse Fatigue”, Wall Street International, January, 2015
Bush, Tori: “Two Approaches”, Pelican Bomb, January 2015
Lee, Pamela: “The Whole Earth is Heavy”, Art Forum vol. 52, NO.1, September 2013, p.306-309
Moss, Ceci: “Questioning the World as Image: The 55th Venice Biennale and the Whole Earth”, Rhizome, 2013
Picard, Andréa: “A Hunter Gatherer in a Time of Collective”, CinemaScope, CS56, 2013
Smith, Byron: Camille Henrot’s ‘Grosse Fatigue’, New York Times Video, May 22, 2014
Heiser, Jörg: “The Film Essay”, Frieze Magazine, Issue 157 September, 2013
COMMITTEES & ASSOCIATIONS
-Amref Health Africa
-UHAI EASHRI
-ART NOIR
instagram: @akwetey
visit: akweteyart.com
contact: akweteyo@gmail.com
Born May 29th, 1980. New York, NY. B.F.A. Amherst College. Lives and works in Mexico City and Accra
ON VIEW /// OCTOBER 6 - JANUARY 24 ACCRA! THE RISE OF A GLOBAL ART COMMUNITY!, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 WESTERN RETREAT , Galería Karen Huber, Mexico CIty
2022 THE SOUND OF LEAVING, Galería Karen Huber, Mexico CIty
2018 EMOTIONAL APPLICATIONS, The Naftali Building for the Arts. Chelsea, NY
2017 ISOTROPIC CONDITIONS, Chashama, Times Square, NY
2017 BLUE STEAL at Okayplayer’s OKAYSPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2016 TIRO: MILLENNIAL SOLDIER, The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, NY
2016 ULTRAMERICANS, Ludlow Studios, Chinatown, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 DIGITAL HUMANITY: PLAN8TAIR HUNAN, CHINA
2019 Uncorked, Montclair Art Museum
2019 Portrait of an Egg, Photo London, Somerset House, London
2018-2019 LANDSCAPE, Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Amref ARTBALL, New York, NY
2018 THE MESSAGE: NEW MEDIA WORKS, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
2018 MODERN MONDAYS, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
2018 LOVE ISABELA, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, NY
2018 100 WORKS, Artnoir, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Tuesday (Voice), Days are Dogs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2017 If Wishes Were Horses (Voice), Kunsthalle Vienna
2017 Artsy/AMREF ARTBALL, Milk Gallery. New York, NY
2015-2016 Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MOMA, New York
2016 Pearly’s Beauty Shop, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Valium Valentine, MOMA PS1 Queens, NY
2016 NYE at Pioneerworks, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Festival of Future Nows, Institut für Raumexperimente. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2014 Inside/Out Soho, NY
2014 Poem a Day, Museum Mu.Zee. Oostende, Belgium
2013- Grosse Fatigue (voice, performance). Video, 13 min. Directed by Camille Henrot
The Museum of Modern Art (NY)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY)
Tate Modern Museum, London.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Musée d’art Contemporaín de Montreal
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013 The Restless Earth (voice), The New Museum, NY
2013 The Encyclopedic Palace, Grosse Fatigue (voice), 55th Venice Biennale
2012 If You Can Read This You Haven’t Had Enough, A.M. 180 Gallery, Czech Republic
2011 Tomodachi Calling, Tokyo
WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
2019 The Brooklyn Rail, “Finding Up” by Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Visiting Artist, New York University
2017 Mass Moca Artist-in-Residence
2016 Creative Capital Intensive
COLLECTIONS
Grosse Fatigue: Camille Henrot (Director), Jacob Bromberg (Text), Joakim Bouaziz (Music), Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh (Voice). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, Nouveau Musée National De Monaco, Musée D’Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY
King, Daniel “Sonny Rollins on the Pandemic, Protests, and Music”. The New Yorker, June 2020
Chayka, Kyle “Grosse Fatigue” Tells the Story of Life on Earth”. The New Yorker, July 2020
Russeth, Andrew “The Most Important Artworks of the 2010s”, ArtNews, December, 2019
Orraca-Tetteh, Akwetey “Finding Up”. Brooklyn Rail, February, 2019
Isama, Antoinette “Ghanaian-American Artist Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh Tells a Tale of Liberty
and Theft with ‘BLUE STEAL’. OkayAfrica, May, 2017
Barron, Michael “Artists in Conversation”, BOMB Magazine, January, 2106
Fiumelli, Federica: “Grosse Fatigue”, Wall Street International, January, 2015
Bush, Tori: “Two Approaches”, Pelican Bomb, January 2015
Lee, Pamela: “The Whole Earth is Heavy”, Art Forum vol. 52, NO.1, September 2013, p.306-309
Moss, Ceci: “Questioning the World as Image: The 55th Venice Biennale and the Whole Earth”, Rhizome, 2013
Picard, Andréa: “A Hunter Gatherer in a Time of Collective”, CinemaScope, CS56, 2013
Smith, Byron: Camille Henrot’s ‘Grosse Fatigue’, New York Times Video, May 22, 2014
Heiser, Jörg: “The Film Essay”, Frieze Magazine, Issue 157 September, 2013
COMMITTEES & ASSOCIATIONS
-Amref Health Africa
-UHAI EASHRI
-ART NOIR
instagram: @akwetey
visit: akweteyart.com
contact: akweteyo@gmail.com