Addoley Dzegede: Weil Wall Lecture

Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American artist and educator from South Florida, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work investigates how trade histories between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas have shaped individual and communal identities. More specifically, her work incorporates how European textiles and beads have heavily informed African fashion and adornment—a cross-continental connection belonging to the broader narrative of how postcolonial ties impact quintessential signifiers of self-expression. Dzegede received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She was a 2022–2023 Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands for Craft, where she was Artist Researcher in Residence at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In recent years, she has been in exhibitions at the National Museum of Norway, Canada gallery in New York, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.