Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Beyond Rubber, Afrobutylism Studio c/o The Kavod, Accra, Ghana
2024 Energy, Waste, and the Environment in West Africa, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
2023 Solo Exhibition, Ghana Climate Innovation Centre & Atlantic Council - Climate Leadership Program, Jamestown Cafe, Accra, Ghana.
2023 Elementary Rebirth, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
2022 The Dreamers Cocoon, The Noldor Residency, Accra, Ghana
Group Exhibitions
2025 Ellipse Prize Finalist Show, The Mix Design Hub, Accra, Ghana
2024 Don’t Be A Square!, AKKA Project, Venice, Italy
2024 Constellations Part 2: Figures in Webs and Ripples of Space, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
2024 Bold, Honoring James Barnor’s 95th Birthday. Featuring Works by Dela Anyah, Institute Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
2024 Form Comes To Mind, The Anzai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 ATEREREKARIAYE (2023), AFRIWOCC Pre-COP28, WACCI, Accra, Ghana
2023 Homecoming, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana
2023 X’MAS 23, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Kaleidoscope of Dreams, Institute Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
2023 Worldmaking, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA
2023 SUMMERTIME’23, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 REVERB 23 | Abstract Resonances //Contemporary Voices, Latitudes Online
2023 Kuenyehia Prize Awards, The Mix Design Hub, Accra, Ghana
Public Interventions
2025 Homecoming Dome, Multiple Vulcanizer Spaces, Accra, Ghana
2025 Elevation Gihoc, (Former) Gihoc Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd, Accra, Ghana
2024 Homecoming Madina Estates, Rims and Tyres, Accra, Ghana
2024 Forgotten Futures, Multiple Vulcanizer Spaces, Accra, Ghana. Conducted simultaneously across multiple locations.
2024 EDOTOM 2 (2023), Vulcaniser Shop Ashiyie, Accra, Ghana.
2023 Edem (2023), Rahim’s Vulcaniser Shop Motorway, Accra, Ghana
2023 Homecoming (II), Vulcaniser Shop Islamic School bus stop Adjiringanor, Accra, Ghana
2023 Homecoming, Bicycle Repair Shop Adjiringanor, Accra, Ghana
Talks / Lectures
2025 After the Races, After the Stunts, After You Need Me No More: A Bicycle Tire Story, SSHRED (Skating, Sustainability, Health Research, and Environmental Design) Online Seminar Series
2024 Transforming Tire Waste: Histories, Processes, and Innovative Forms, Virtual Presentation, Energy, Waste, and the Environment in West Africa, Hosted by the Departments of Anthropology and History, Rice University, September 12, 2024
2023 Presentation on Artistic Practice, Ghana Climate Innovation Centre & Atlantic Council - Climate Leadership Program, Jamestown Cafe, Accra, Ghana.
Studio Research & Archive Projects:
Vulcanizer Archive (2023–ongoing)
A studio-led mapping and archival initiative charting vulcanizer shops and tire waste cultures across Ghana. Through photography, geolocation, and field notes, the project examines the architecture of these spaces and the aesthetics of repair, labor, and discarded materials. It forms the basis of Dela Anyah’s evolving sculptural practice and long-term research into rubber ecologies and material memory.
Select material from this project has appeared in LIMN Magazine (Obsolescence Issue, No. 11) and was presented during SSHRED Seminar 11 (2024).
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Residencies
2022 The Noldor Residency, Accra, Ghana
Grant & Awards
2023 2nd Runner Up: Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art
2022 Semi-Finalist: Art X Prize
Publications / Bibliography
2024 “Art Beyond Waste”. LIMN Magazine, The Obsolescence Issue, No. 11, p. 32. Cover photograph featured.
2024 "Changing a Tyre Into Art," Sawubona, Profile by Sbu Mkwanazi, Issue 71, pp. 70-71
2023 "Voices: Ghana’s Artists in Their Own Words," Manju Journal, Twentyfour Thirtysix Ltd, p. 54
Collections
Celine Art Project Puerto Banus
Sir David Adjaye Collection New York | London | Accra
Isshaq Foundation Accra
Kuenyehia Collection Accra
The Institute Museum of Ghana Accra
Fischer Shull Collection North Carolina