Addoley Dzegede

Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American artist who grew up in South Florida and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a 2022-2023 Fulbright awardee in Craft to the Netherlands, based in Rotterdam for the duration of the award as the Artist-Researcher-in-Residence at Piet Zwart Institute.

She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and fellowships include the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship at Washington University in St Louis, where she completed an MFA degree in Visual Art, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

Her work has been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and Africa, and she has been an Artist-in-Residence at ALMA|LEWIS in collaboration with Frick Pittsburgh; at AiR Green in Noresund, Norway; Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee; the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida; Osei Duro in Accra, Ghana; Thread: a project of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal; Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; and several other institutions, as well as a post-graduate apprentice at the Fabric Workshop & Museum in Philadelphia.

Group exhibitions and screenings include Nearing Each Other at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, France, A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances; Season 3 of the Ask Addoley + Anna podcast with Anna Ihle, commissioned by The National Museum of Norway for I Call It Art; This Country, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Overview is a Place at SPRING/BREAK Art Show: Stranger Comes to Town in New York; the Counterpublic Triennial, organized by The Luminary, St. Louis, MO; and Surface Forms at The Fabric Workshop & Museum in Philadelphia.

Dzegede was a 2018 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants. Other awards include grants from The Heinz Endowment; a 2018 Great Rivers Biennial award; a MICA alumni award; and a Creative Stimulus Award from Critical Mass for the Visual Arts. Her solo exhibition, Ballast, was on view in the summer of 2018 at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis as part of the Great Rivers Biennial, and millefiori opened at KSMoCA in 2020.

She is half of the collaborative duo, LAB:D, with Lyndon Barrois Jr, most recently exhibiting works together in Mercantile, at Sharp Projects in Copenhagen, Denmark and at Chart Art Fair.