The work of Ghanaian and American artist Akwetey John Orraca-Tetteh spans a practice of painting, performance and new media. Highly influenced by the supernatural and emerging technologies, the New York born artist is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

Forthcoming

• 2020, SERVICE HOURS, Gasparee Island

• 2020 TRAPSTARS, Los Angeles, CA

• 2020 SPORTS: DETROIT, Michigan

• 2021 PREMIUM SOUND, New York, N

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

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