“My work explores the sense of displacement I have experienced through themes of cultural identity, the concept of home, material ritual, and material history. By sharing my personal experience, I seek to address the experiences of displacement lived by others in contemporary society.”
Eugene Agyei
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Eugene Ofori Agyei is a Ghanaian-born artist and educator based in the United States whose interdisciplinary practice explores themes of migration, identity, cultural hybridity, and the concept of home through ceramics, textiles, wood, found materials, and performance. He holds a BA in Industrial Art from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana and an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Florida.
He has been honored with the Robert C. Turner Teaching Fellowship at the New York State College of Ceramic Art, Alfred University; two National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) fellowships; an Artaxis Fellowship; the Zenobia Award; and the 2022 Pathways: Carlos Malamud Prize, among others.
His work has been featured in group exhibitions across the United States, including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, the Harn Museum of Art, the Museum of Art–DeLand, the Art and History Museum of Maitland, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Rollins Museum of Art (Florida), North Dakota State University, Kudos Shed Gallery (Connecticut), and Art Center Sarasota (Florida). In 2025, Agyei presented his first international solo museum exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum in Munich, as part of the Duke Franz von Bayern Collection. A solo exhibition at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum has also been presented.
Agyei has participated in prestigious residencies such as the Wassaic Project, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Township 10, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
He is represented by Alvarez Gallery in Connecticut.
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Install View
2024
Variable measurements
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Install View
2024
Variable measurements
Eugene Ofori Agyei
What’s behind?
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, calabash, mirror, found object
53” x 30” x 11“
Eugene Ofori Agyei
What’s behind?
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, calabash, mirror, found object
53” x 30” x 11“
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Fruitful Umbrella
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, calabash, found object
40” x 28” x 30”
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Fruitful Umbrella
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, calabash, found object
40” x 28” x 30”
Eugen Ofori Agyei
Return(ing)
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, tree branch, shoelace, found object
41” x 8” x 72”
Eugen Ofori Agyei
Return(ing)
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, tree branch, shoelace, found object
41” x 8” x 72”
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Return(ing) II
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, tree branch, shoelace, found object
53” x 7.5” x 73“
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Return(ing) II
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, tree branch, shoelace, found object
53” x 7.5” x 73“
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Signpost
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, shoelace, found object
49” x 21” x 21”
Eugene Ofori Agyei
Signpost
2024
Earthenware clay, batik fabric, shoelace, found object
49” x 21” x 21”
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