Dora
2024
Addoley Dzegede
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Addoley Dzegede
Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She has attended residencies in the US, Europe, and Africa, including Osei Duro in Accra; Thread, through the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, in Senegal; Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; and ALMA|LEWIS, in collaboration with Frick Pittsburgh. Dzegede’s solo exhibitions include Ballast at CAM St. Louis and millefiori at KSMoCA in Portland, OR. Group exhibitions include I Call It Art at the National Museum of Norway; Don’t You Miss Us? at Deli Gallery in New York; and Surface Forms at The Fabric Workshop & Museum. She was a 2018 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, and a Fulbright awardee to the Netherlands (2022-2023), where she was Artist Researcher in Residence at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2018
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025
Website / Social Links
My work touches on the infinite historical connections and entanglements lurking behind the decorative artifacts that have shaped our contemporary world. Projects are often based on the materials and conditions specific to the location where the work is made, whether at home or abroad.”
