Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

Born in Accra, Ghana
Lives and works in Portland, Oregon
 

Education
Ghanatta College of Art and Design, Accra, Ghana


Solo Exhibitions

2021
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (upcoming)

2021
'Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: 2021 Artist in Residence', Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
'ONE BUT TWO (Haadzii)', Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2020
Black Like Me, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

'Ontology', Ross & Krmer, New York, NY
'The Show Will Go On', Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
'Life in Flowers', Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
'Salon de Peinture', Almine Rech, New York, NY
'Un Hiver à Paris', Almine Rech, Paris, Turenne, France
'Friend Zone', Half Gallery, New York, NY
'August Presentation', Almine Rech Gallery, Aspen

2020  
'Painting Someone', Almine Rech, Shanghai, China|
'Synchronicity', Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
'BLACK VOICES / BLACK MICROCOSM', CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden Spirited Robot, Chale Wote Art Festival, Accra, Ghana

2018  
'Agony & Ecstasy', Gresham City Hall Art Gallery, Portland, OR
'Au Naturel', Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, Astoria, OR
'The Open Show', Gresham City Hall Art Gallery, Portland, OR
'Nuts & Bolts', Gresham City Hall Art Gallery, Portland, OR

2017  
'Spirited Robot', Chale Wote Art Festival, Accra, Ghana
'Never Ending Story of African Children', Hos Oona Gallery, Vejle, Denmark

2016  
'Let’s Talk Shit', Alliance Francaís UNICEF Collective Show, Accra, Ghana
'Collective Show', African Contemporary Gallery (ACAG), Hamburg, Germany
'Black-ish', Helina Aminu's Pop Up Gallery, Portland, OR
'Serendipity', Accra City Hotel, Accra, Ghana

2015
'Habitation', Golden Tulip Hotel, Accra, Ghana
'Circle of Life', Novotel Hotel, Accra, Ghana

2014
'Gate way', Ferrie Glien, Pretoria, South Africa


Awards and Honors
Artist-in-Residence, Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Pérez Art Museum Miami, US
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, US

Selected Press
 

2021

Durón, Maximilíano. ‘10 Works That Sold at This Year’s Frieze London’, Art News, October 14

Miranda, Carolina. ‘Essential Arts’, Los Angeles Times, June 11

Pricco, Evan. ‘Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: ONE BUT TWO (Haadzii)’, Juxtapoz, June

Slade, Eric. ‘The powerful paintings of Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe’, Oregon Public Broadcasting, May

Young, Arnesia. ‘Ghanaian Artist Explores Being Black in America Through Colorful Portraits’, My Modern Met, May

Girard, Antoine J. ‘Art as Activism: Otis Quaicoe’, GOAT, March

Wood, Eve. ‘Remarks on Color: Seahorse Yellow’, Artillery Magazine, March

Seymour, Tom. ‘He Used to Work for Fedex. Now, Artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Is at the Forefront of the Next Generation of West African Art Stars’, Artnet News, March 

Garabedian, Maya. ‘The Empowering, Fashionable Portraits of Otis Quaicoe’, Mutual Art, January

Ebert, Grace. ‘Bold, Striking Portraits by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Render Expressive Subjects in Shades of Gray’, Colossal, January

Bullock, Andrew. ‘The Art of Amar Singh’s Activism’, Vanity Fair, February


2020

Subotnik, Ali. ‘Gallery Platform Los Angeles’, August - September

Trouillot, Terence. ‘The Ascent of Young Ghanaian Artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe’, Artsy, October

Caruso, Kate. ‘Proverbial Portraiture: The Power of Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe’, Artillery, July 

Trouillot, Terence. ‘Critic’s Pick: Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe’, Artforum, February 12  

Wood, Eve. ‘Triangulations of The Black Cat: Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Black Like Me’, Riot Material, January 31

Goldman, Edward. ‘The Famous, the Well-Known, and the Recently Discovered’, Art Matters, January 21

Cowan, Katy. ‘Lush and luminous oil paintings of black men and women by Ghanian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe’, Creative Bloom, January 9

‘Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: Black Like Me’, Galleries Now, January 31

Ebert, Grace, ‘In Bright Paintings Full of Color, Artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Depicts Black Subjects in Gray’, Colossal, July 6


2019

Martin, Brittany. ‘The Best Exhibits at Museums and Galleries in L.A. in January,’ Los Angeles Magazine, December 30

O’Sullivan, Anna. ‘Ghana leads African charge in Miami’, The Financial Times, December 6