Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe (b.1988, Accra, Ghana; based in Portland, OR) was born in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. He attended the Ghanatta College of Art & Design for Fine Art with a focus on painting. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL and the Fogg Museum at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. Recent solo exhibitions include Otis Quaicoe: (s)kin deep, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; BLACK RODEO: Cowboys of the 21st Century, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium; Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: 2021 Artist in Residence, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, and ONE BUT TWO (Haadzii), Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Select group exhibitions include Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; When We See Us, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM; Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; BLACK BODIES, WHITE SPACES: INVISIBILITY & HYPERVISIBILITY, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Ontology, Ross & Kramer, New York, NY; The Show Will Go On, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel; Life in Flowers, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy, and Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech, New York, NY, among others.