Denyse Gawu-Mensah Ghana, b. 1995
Overview
Denyse Gawu-Mensah is a passionate female artist currently living and working in Ghana. As a child she was often fascinated by design, shapes, colour and explored things to satisfy her curiosity. After discovering her passion and love for art, she went on to study visual art in high school and communication design at the Kwame NkrumahUniversity of Science and Technology.
For her, art had become a lifestyle.A natural born adventurer, she has a strong appreciation for nature and spends a lot of her time traveling, exploring and immersing herself in new cultures and lifestyles. Being an avid collector and an advocate for sentimental value, as she moves around, she finds herself mentally and physically gathering experiences and memorabilia for the purpose of creative reuse and expression. These journeys, objects and experiences play an important role in her artistic process as they serve largely as inspiration for her.
Exhibitions
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Denyse Gawu-Mensah - LIGHTYEARS OF US
Curated by Angelica Litta Modignani | Gallery I, Accra 30 Oct 2025 - 3 Jan 2026Opening on October 30th in Accra, the exhibition draws on Gawu-Mensah’s rich family archive of photographs from the 1960s and 1970s, depicting Ghana’s dynamic post-independence period, reconstructing personal and collective...Read more -
Constellations Part 2 : Figures in Webs and Ripples of Space
Co - curated by Nuna Adisenu - Doe, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, and Katherine Finerty 1 Aug - 10 Oct 2024Artists participating in this group show include those collaborating with the gallery for the first time; Clifford Bright Abu , Abdul-Salam Alhassan , Akosua Odeibea Amoah-Yeboah, Dela Anyah, Dzidzor Azaglo,...Read more -
Constellations Part 1: Figures On Earth & Beyond
Curated by Katherine Finerty, Nuna Adisenu-Doe, and Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson 14 Mar - 1 Jun 2024Artists participating in this group show include first-time collaborators of the Gallery; Adelaide Damoah, Alberta Whittle, Andrew Pierre Hart, Ayesha Feisal, Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation), Denyse Gawu-Mensah, Henry Hussey, Lisa C...Read more
Biography
In 2019 Denyse enrolled in Airforce Complex School in Takoradi, Western Region where she dedicated a year to teaching creative arts to primary school pupils. During this time she nurtured young minds and taught them to be bold with their creativity and be open to the possibilities it brings. Denyse is also a member of the “Asafo Black” art collective. Together they have participated internationally in exhibitions like the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa and with their guerrilla-tactics interventions have held their own self-funded exhibitions here in Ghana, such as “Vibes” in 2018 and “Truth or dare” in 2019 at the Ghana National Theatre. She has also participated in events and exhibitions hosted by institutions such as the 2022 ARX exhibition-“The Powerhouse” held in Germany and Ghana, 2021 Artist in Focus on Guest Projects Digital by London’s Yinka Shonibare Foundation, 2020 Ake Arts and Book festival hosted in Nigeria.Currently, the artist is engulfed in an exciting and extensive new project that revisits and researches the past of a Ghanaian culture. She looks at this project as a creative way of archiving these almost forgotten lifestyles from a time of post-independence in the Ghanaian community.
Art Fairs
