Bio
Na Chainkua Reindorf (b. 1991, Ghana) is a mixed media artist and mythmaker living and working between San Juan, PR and Accra, Ghana
Education
2017
MFA, Creative Visual Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014
BA (Honors), Studio Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Strange Flesh, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
Mawu Nyonu, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton NY, USA
2022
Up To No Good, Nubuke Gallery, Accra, Ghana
2020
Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things, Specialist Gallery, Seattle WA, USA
2019
Shrine, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton NY, USA
2017
Screen, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
Reveal Conceal, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
2016
Reveal Conceal, Jill Stuart Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA
Weft, JungleScience Gallery, Binghamton NY, USA
Selected Two-Person + Group Exhibitions
2025
The Alchemy of Color and Matter, ADA Gallery, Accra, Ghana
2024
Constellations Part 2: Figures in Webs and Ripples of Space, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
Memoria: récits d'une Autre Histoire, Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Sleight of Hand, Peep Projects, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA
2023
left hanging - one sculpture, one rug & paintings, Dot Ateliers, Accra, Ghana
Poly. A Fluid Show, Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
What Now?, PM/AM Gallery, London, United Kingdom
20th Anniversary Show, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton New York, USA
Memoria: récits d’une Autre Histoire, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2022
Black Star: The Museum as Freedom, Ghana Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Continuum, The Textile Centre, Minneapolis Minnesota, USA
Memoria: récits d’une Autre Histoire, Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire
2021
Efie: Museum as Home, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
About Now, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
Counterbalance, CVA Galleries, Chautauqua NY, usa
Out of the Blue, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Online Exhibition
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Booth, Online Exhibition
Memoria: récits d’une Autre Histoire, Bordeaux, France
Ways of Seeing, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Online Exhibition
2020
Fragments, Spool Gallery, Vestal New York, USA
HerStory, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Online Exhibition
Systems Approach, Young Space Summer 2020 Online Exhibition
Carnaval Digital, Carnaval Digital 2020 Online Exhibition
2019
Africa By Design, Ghana Club, Accra, Ghana
2018
Art X Lagos Fair, Nu Gallery Booth, Lagos, Nigeria
Wanted Design, Africa By Design Booth, Terminal Stores, New York NY
2017
Odd Year, Caelum Gallery, New York NY
Africa By Design, Nu Gallery, Accra, Ghana
Swatch, Experimental Gallery, Ithaca NY
AAP Women Unite for Equality, Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca NY
2016
After Karaoke, Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca NY
Nubuke Foundation 10th Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nu Gallery, Accra, Ghana
Preamble, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Something Came Over Me, Caelum Gallery, New York NY
Failure, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Don’t Tell Me I’m Pretty, Hairpin Arts Centre, Chicago IL
Collections
ANO Institute of Art and Knowledge, Accra, Ghana
Bank of America Corporate Office, Charlotte, NC
Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy
The Boafo Collection, Accra Ghana
Enterprise Group, Accra, Ghana
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY
Grants + Residencies
2020
Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA Residency Grant
Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA Artist Residency, Bordeaux France
2016
Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Cornell Council for the Arts Group Grant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Mario Einaudi Centre for International Studies Working Group Grant: Qualities of Life, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Visiting Artist Lectures
2024
“Worldbuilding and Mythmaking in Art Practice”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2023
“Expanding the Masquerade”, Visiting Artist Lecture, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2023
“Worldbuilding through Artmaking”, Visiting Artist Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2021
“Thinking through Painting”, Visiting Artist Lecture, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2020
“Generative tools in the Studio”, Visiting Artist Lecture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA
2018
“Artists as Activists: Creatively Driving Change Symposium”, panelist, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
2017
“A Conversation with Textiles,” Silsila: A Panel Discussion on Environmentalism, Migration, and Displacement, panelist, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY.
Selected Bibliography (Reviews, Articles, Catalogues, Interviews)
Prah, Elizabeth. ‘New Perspectives, Contemporary Art from Ghana’ May 2024, 282 - 285
Manju Journal. ‘Voices: Ghanaian Artists In Their Own Words’ October 2023, 182 - 185
Zhang, Lisa Yin. ‘The Top Ten Shows Around the World in 2023,’ Frieze Magazine, December 2023
Squire, Christopher. Masqueraders: Na Chainkua Reindorf and Sime Leigh at La Biennale di Venezia, Dissolve Magazine, April 2023
Peterson Vanessa. “Na Chainkua Reindorf Creates an All-Female Masquerade,’ Frieze Magazine, March 2023
Fea, Rosie. “Na Chainkua Reindorf,” Exceptional Alien, January 2023
Negusse, Mearg. Na Chainkua Reindorf: Unruly Artworks,” Contemporary And, January 2023
Affricot, Johann. “Na Chainkua’s Secret Society.” Griot, May 2022
Tawe, Elisha. “Myth-Making, Mysticism and the Masquerade: Na Chainkua Reindorf’s Marvelous World of Textiles” A2O Magazine, March 2021
Larralde, Laetitia. “Memoria, matière à construire l’Histoire.” Toute la Culture, February 2021
Musseau, Celine. “Bordeaux: des artistes africaines racontent leur continent au Frac,” SudOuest, February 2021
Manu, Bianca. “Nubuke Foundation curator meets with the emerging Ghanaian Artist,” Nataal Media, June 2019
Carimati, Paola. “Africa in Technicolor,” Elle Décor Italia, June 2019
Ocran, Nana. “Poetic Design Vernaculars,” The Art Momentum, November 2018
Boadu, Edwin. “ART X Lagos,” Nataal Magazine, November 2018
Roberston, Leigh. “Africa Uncovered,” Elle Décor South Africa, July 2018
Witten, Patti, “Traditional African Masks Inspire M.F.A.’s Work,” Cornell AAP News, Issue 22, September 2017
Reindorf, Na Chainkua. “I Am (Not) Myself,” Dissolve Magazine, Issue 3, February 2017.
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