(1977 - )
Born in Accra, Ghana, Harold Offeh grew up in London. He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton (1996–99), Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art (1999–2001), and completed a PhD by practice at Leeds Beckett University (2014-20). He lives in Cambridge and teaches at art colleges in London and Leeds. His first solo exhibition was at the Kulturhuset, Stockholm (2008) and he has since exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at: Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2013); Tate Britain (2014, 2017) and Tate Modern (2013); Museet for Samtidkunst, Roskilde, Denmark (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Val de Marne, France (2017); South London Gallery (2018, 2020); Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (2018); and Art Tower Mito, Japan (2019). ‘Hail the New Prophets’ will see Offeh realise his first major public sculpture as part of the Bold Tendencies exhibition in Peckham, London (2021). Offeh was the recipient of the 2019 Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award.
