Serge Attukwei Clottey (b. 1985; Ghana) works across installation, performance, photography and sculpture, exploring narratives of personal, family and collective histories, which often relate to trade and migration. Clottey is best known for his gallon works. Titling this oeuvre “Afrogallonism,” Clottey repurposes these canisters that transport cooking oil from the west to Ghana only to end up as plastic waste, cutting and stitching these found objects into tapestry-like installations that comment on the movement of materials from the west to Africa, and the possibility of reversing these flows through creative reimagination. Other works arrange found objects like jute sacks, car tires, and wood pieces into abstract assemblages that illustrate Ghana’s informal economies of trade and re-use. Symbolism features centrally across his practice, ranging from sculptural references to textile traditions such as Kente (a key source of inspiration for African Modernism) to signs such as barcodes and Mandarin characters, which index emerging power structures on the African continent.

His multidisciplinary works have been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions in multiple international institutions, museums and galleries including Museu Tàpies, Barcelona; Goethe Institut, Accra; MUMOK, Vienna; National Portrait Gallery, London; Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice; Museum Arnhem, Arnhem; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Depart Foundation, Malibu and many more.

In August 2019 he received the award of Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Brighton.

He currently lives and works in Los Angeles (USA) and Accra (Ghana).