Serge Attukwei Clottey is known for his work that examines the powerful agency of everyday objects. Working across installation, performance, photography and sculpture, Clottey explores narratives of personal, family and collective histories often relating to trade and migration. Based in Accra and working internationally, Clottey, the creator of Afrogallonism, an artistic concept that comments on consumption within modern Africa through the utilization of yellow gallon containers. Through cutting, drilling, stitching and melting found materials, Clottey’s sculptural installations are bold assemblages that act as a means of inquiry into questions of form and history. As the founder of Ghana’s GoLokal performance collective, Clottey sees art as a way to transform society. With aspects of activism prevalent in his practice, his works challenge convention and advocate the importance of creativity.
b. 1985, Accra, Ghana
Lives and Works in Accra, Ghana
EDUCATION
2006 - 2007 Escola Guignard, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2000 - 2004 Ghanatta College of Art and Design, Accra Ghana
EXHIBITIONS
2020 "Softening Borders"- The Moody Center for the Arts At Rice University - Houston - USA
2019 "Solo Chorus"- The Mistake Room Los Angeles - USA
"Sometimes in Your Life" - Lorenzelli Arte - Italy
2019 KUBATANA, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
Fabrica, Brighton, UK
2018 Brighton University, UK
360LA, Accra, Ghana
Depart foundation, Malibu, California USA
Defying the Narrative Ever gold Projects, San Francisco, USA
Differences Between Jane Lombard Gallery New York, USA
Gallery 1957 ’’Takeover’’ Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai
2017 Group Show, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles
Dans Un Ciel Ensoleille, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles
Astala Tsala, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
2016 My Mother's Wardrobe, Gallery 1957, Accra
10th year anniversary exhibition, Nubuke Foundation, Accra
Hand to Mouth, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco
Practical Common Sense, Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Jamestown, Accra
Earthly Coversations, GNYP Gallery, Berlin
2015 We Don’t Contemporary, Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany
What is Matter, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
Silence Of An Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, California
The Displaced, Feuer/Mesler, New York
2014 Color Unfinished, 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille
Migration Messages, Collective Realities of African Migration, WUK, Vienna
Global Art Local View, European Monument Day, Mohr Villa, Munich
MULTIPOINT International art Symposium, Nitra
The Auction Room — African Contemporary Photography, Ozwald Boateng, London
Masked Unmasked, 11th Dakart, Dakar
Du Bois In Our Time II ‘Colour Unfinished’, University of Amherst, Massachusetts and Nubuke Foundation
2013 Muses, Goethe Institute, Accra
Art Speaks, Residency at Wuk, Vienna
Du Bois in our Time I ‘Colour Unfinished’, University of Amherst, Massachusetts and Nubuke Foundation
Insidethemoskitonet, Alliance Française, Accra
We Are Africa, Nubuke Foundation, Accra
2012 whose puppet are you?, performance, Accra
Time, Trade & Travel, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam and Nubuke Foundation, Accra
The Beautiful ones are not yet born, Goethe Institut, Accra
Alternative Independence Day Celebration, Freedom Tour, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
Inside The Mosquito Net, Brazil House Jamestown, Accra
2011 Cultures in Confluence, Alliance Française & Goethe Institut, Accra
Trash to Treasure, chale wote street art festival, Accra
2010 Climate Change, Caspar House, Accra
Portrait of Ghana, The Drum Ace Café, Birmingham, UK
My Life, Charity Photo Show, W.E.B. Dubois Memorial Centre, Accra and Haverford College, Pennsylvania
2009 Africa Show, African Contemporary Art, Naples
2008 Global Warming, Featured Project, British Council, Accra
Portrait of Accra, Junior Art Club sponsorship, Bristol
Untying the Human Spirit, CAN 2008, Goethe Institute, Accra
2003 Different Strokes, The Loom African Gallery, Accra