Richie Adomako
Photo by Clayton Cubitt
Contemporary artist exploring themes of identity, speculation, and social change through digital media, performance, and curation. Based between New York City, Copenhagen, and Kumasi, Ghana. Work included at Whitney Museum, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, and Witte de With.
"A small look is a big picture, just as a big picture makes everything small in concept. In order to appreciate the stars, one has to walk on sand."
latest piece
Exhibitions
2025
Shelf - A Group Exhibition, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2024
The Future is Now X Group Show, 54 Crosby, New York, NY
The Drawing Show, Sade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Icarus Overslept; better luck next time, LaMama Galleria, New York, NY (Solo)
After the Fall Comes Love; or The Shadow Society, Bushel Collective Gallery, DELHI, NY
2020
The Killing of Whales, IRL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Solo)
Art in The Age of the Internet, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2017
Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2016
Pot Liquor Medicine Women, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drink & Draw, BRIC Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2015
NO HUMANS INVOLVED, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
PostSpeculation/wayblackmachine, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Post Speculation, The New Foundation Seattle, Seattle, WA
RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Post-Speculation Act 1 and 2, P! Gallery, New York, NY
RED NEON, The Farm, New York NY
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, Free Candy, Brooklyn, NY
Curation
2018
NHI: No Humans Involved, with Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Education
BA, Lafayette College, Easton, PA