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Residencies:

2020 International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2019 Stony Point Center, Stony Point, Rockland County, New York, USA


Solo Exhibitions:

2019 Surpassing the Eternally Mysterious Afro-Surreal, Sulger-Buel Gallery, London, UK
2019 Community Man IV (Benefit exhibition), Green & Stone of Chelsea, London, UK
2016 DNA, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
2013 Poppable, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2012 Letting Go, Mok Space Gallery, Bloomsbury, UK


Select Group Exhibitions:

2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Sulger-Buel Gallery), New York City, USA
2020 The Faculty of Sensing - Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V., Braunschweig, Germany
2019 Ultrasanity. On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance, SAVVY, Berlin, Germany
2019 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Sulger-Buel Gallery), New York, USA
2018 Untold African Impact in Southwark (Tate Exchange Projects), Tate Modern - Blavatnik Building, Bankside, UK
2017 British Friends of Museums in Israel (Auction Exhibition), Phillips House, London, UK
2016 Regarding Africa, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Drawings, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2015 London Art Fair (Knight Webb Gallery), Islington Business Centre, Islington, UK
2014 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Sulger-Buel Gallery), (Knight Webb Gallery), London, UK 2014 Urban Expression, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2013 Atlantic Road, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2013 13th Commonwealth Week celebration in Cameroon (Honorary Guest Artist), British High Commission Yaoundé and Bamenda, Yaoundé, Cameroon Open, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, UK
2012
Artists in Action for Education, Mok Space Gallery, Bloomsbury, United Kingdom London Design Festival (Part of African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora), Earls Court, London, UK
2012 Layered Identities, Los Angeles Convention Centre, Los Angeles, USA
2012 BBC Queens Diamond Jubilee (Commissioned Artist for River Boat Pageant), Millennium Bridge, London, UK
2012 Black Symbiosis, Javits Convention Centre, New York, USA
2012 The Spirit of Art, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, UK
2011 Choices, (Part of African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora), Bargehouse, Southbank, London, UK
2010 Art Attack, Abingdon Dalton Barracks, Oxfordshire, UK


Select Reviews, Features and Articles:

2020 Financial Times - Artwork Proceeds with Caution And A Few Sweeteners
2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair -The Interview Series: Adjani Okpu-Egbe
2020 Kunstforum International - Gegenwartsbefreiung Malerei by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung & Larissa Kikol
2020 Süddeutsche Zeitung - Anton Wilhelm Amo
2020 Kuntsverein Museum Braunschweig - Interview for the exhibition "The Faculty of Sensing - Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo"
2017 I24NEWS English - TRENDING | Art exhibition offers new perspective on Africa
2016 Haaretz Israel - Tel Aviv Museum of Art Strikes Colonial Tone With 'Regarding Africa' Exhibit by Shaul Setter
2016 Afropolitan Insights - Get To Know Adjani Okpu-Egbe, "One of the most captivating Afro-Expressionist painters of our time"
2014 Financial Times, Sub-Saharan artists making waves
2014 CNN - A dream? Or a new art movement
2014 Yahoo News Online, African artists eye global reach with London show
2014 Artdaily - Exhibition by Cameroon born artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe opens at Knight Webb Gallery
2013 Whats On Africa - Review: Poppable: New Paintings by Afro-Expressionist Adjani Okpu-Egbe written by Melanie Archer
2013 Brixton Blog - Expressing Africa - Adjani Okpu-Egbe interview written by Ruth Waters
2013 London Loves - London Loves… Adjani written by Joshua Surtee
2012 Dulce Camer - Adjani Okpu-Egbe shows at the Royal Opera Gallery in London written by Dulce Camer
2011 Dunia Magazine - Paintings by UK Artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe Widely Hailed As Inspirational, Castigating The Taboo


Video:

2020 Sulger-Buel Gallery, Surpassing the Eternally Mysterious Afro-Surreal
2014 Ellie Holland - Adjani's first art studio
2013 Afrobuzz - Popping With Adjani
Residencies:

2020 International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2019 Stony Point Center, Stony Point, Rockland County, New York, USA


Solo Exhibitions:

2019 Surpassing the Eternally Mysterious Afro-Surreal, Sulger-Buel Gallery, London, UK
2019 Community Man IV (Benefit exhibition), Green & Stone of Chelsea, London, UK
2016 DNA, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
2013 Poppable, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2012 Letting Go, Mok Space Gallery, Bloomsbury, UK


Select Group Exhibitions:

2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Sulger-Buel Gallery), New York City, USA
2020 The Faculty of Sensing - Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V., Braunschweig, Germany
2019 Ultrasanity. On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance, SAVVY, Berlin, Germany
2019 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Sulger-Buel Gallery), New York, USA
2018 Untold African Impact in Southwark (Tate Exchange Projects), Tate Modern - Blavatnik Building, Bankside, UK
2017 British Friends of Museums in Israel (Auction Exhibition), Phillips House, London, UK
2016 Regarding Africa, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Drawings, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2015 London Art Fair (Knight Webb Gallery), Islington Business Centre, Islington, UK
2014 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Sulger-Buel Gallery), (Knight Webb Gallery), London, UK 2014 Urban Expression, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2013 Atlantic Road, Knight Webb Gallery, London, UK
2013 13th Commonwealth Week celebration in Cameroon (Honorary Guest Artist), British High Commission Yaoundé and Bamenda, Yaoundé, Cameroon Open, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, UK
2012
Artists in Action for Education, Mok Space Gallery, Bloomsbury, United Kingdom London Design Festival (Part of African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora), Earls Court, London, UK
2012 Layered Identities, Los Angeles Convention Centre, Los Angeles, USA
2012 BBC Queens Diamond Jubilee (Commissioned Artist for River Boat Pageant), Millennium Bridge, London, UK
2012 Black Symbiosis, Javits Convention Centre, New York, USA
2012 The Spirit of Art, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, UK
2011 Choices, (Part of African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora), Bargehouse, Southbank, London, UK
2010 Art Attack, Abingdon Dalton Barracks, Oxfordshire, UK


Select Reviews, Features and Articles:

2020 Financial Times - Artwork Proceeds with Caution And A Few Sweeteners
2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair -The Interview Series: Adjani Okpu-Egbe
2020 Kunstforum International - Gegenwartsbefreiung Malerei by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung & Larissa Kikol
2020 Süddeutsche Zeitung - Anton Wilhelm Amo
2020 Kuntsverein Museum Braunschweig - Interview for the exhibition "The Faculty of Sensing - Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo"
2017 I24NEWS English - TRENDING | Art exhibition offers new perspective on Africa
2016 Haaretz Israel - Tel Aviv Museum of Art Strikes Colonial Tone With 'Regarding Africa' Exhibit by Shaul Setter
2016 Afropolitan Insights - Get To Know Adjani Okpu-Egbe, "One of the most captivating Afro-Expressionist painters of our time"
2014 Financial Times, Sub-Saharan artists making waves
2014 CNN - A dream? Or a new art movement
2014 Yahoo News Online, African artists eye global reach with London show
2014 Artdaily - Exhibition by Cameroon born artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe opens at Knight Webb Gallery
2013 Whats On Africa - Review: Poppable: New Paintings by Afro-Expressionist Adjani Okpu-Egbe written by Melanie Archer
2013 Brixton Blog - Expressing Africa - Adjani Okpu-Egbe interview written by Ruth Waters
2013 London Loves - London Loves… Adjani written by Joshua Surtee
2012 Dulce Camer - Adjani Okpu-Egbe shows at the Royal Opera Gallery in London written by Dulce Camer
2011 Dunia Magazine - Paintings by UK Artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe Widely Hailed As Inspirational, Castigating The Taboo


Video:

2020 Sulger-Buel Gallery, Surpassing the Eternally Mysterious Afro-Surreal
2014 Ellie Holland - Adjani's first art studio
2013 Afrobuzz - Popping With Adjani