Drawing on his Ghanaian roots, Larry Achiampong's projects employ imagery, game design, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound to explore ideas surrounding class, cross-cultural and post-digital identity. With the expansion and sharing of information via the Internet, the idea of a one-size-fits-all version of history, as previously dictated, continues to be eradicated. Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history, and splices audible and visual qualities of the personal and interpersonal archives to reveal socio-political contradictions in contemporary society. Achiampong’s works examine the intersection between pop culture and the postcolonial position, using performance to investigate ‘the self’ as a fiction, and devising alter-egos to point at divided selves.
Recent solo presentations include: A Letter, A Pledge, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (UK, 2024); Wayfinder, BALTIC (UK, 2023); Wayfinder, Turner Contemporary (UK, 2022); Wayfinder, MK Gallery (UK, 2022); Art on the Underground, Roundel designs for TfL Westminster, London (UK, permanent installation); Relic Traveller: Where You and I Come From, We Know That We Are Not Here Forever, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (Canada, 2021); Beyond the Substrata, curated by Norman Rosenthal, Copperfield at Piccadilly Arcade (UK, 2020); When the Sky Falls, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2020); Pan African Flag For The Relic Travellers Alliance & Relic Traveller, Phase 1, 019, Ghent (Belgium, 2019); Dividednation, Primary, Nottingham (UK, 2019).
Achiampong has exhibited at institutions across the UK and internationally, including: The Art Institute of Chicago (USA); Tate Britain, London (UK); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK); Centre Pompidou-Metz (France); 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy); MACBA Barcelona (Spain); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (Spain); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (Kosovo); 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea); M.Bassy, Hamburg (Germany); Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi (Italy); Ca’Pesaro, Venice, curated by Norman Rosenthal (Italy); Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Germany); Liverpool Biennale 2021 (UK); Somerset House, London (UK); Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (UK); MG+Museum, Ljubljana (Slovenia); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (Germany); Zeppelin Museum (Germany); CCA ŁAŹNIA, Gdańsk (Poland); Compton Verney, Warwickshire (UK); Towner Gallery, Sussex (UK); Pera Museum, Istanbul (Turkey).
Awards and nominations include: The Film London Jarman Award (shortlisted, 2024); 76th BAFTA Film Awards, London (longlisted, 2023); Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York (2023); Stanley Picker Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2020-2023); Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists: Visual Arts, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London (2019-2021); Artist’s Bursary Scheme, Artsadmin, London (2016-2017).
If It Don't Exist, Build It, a major monograph of Achiampong's practice, has been published by Tate in February 2025.
His work is held in collections internationally, including Tate (UK); UK Government Art Collection; British Council Collection (UK); The Sindika Dokolo Collection, Luanda (Angola); The Science Museum, London (UK); FRAC Bretagne (France); Servais Family Collection, Brussels (Belgium).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Recent solo presentations include: A Letter, A Pledge, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (UK, 2024); Wayfinder, BALTIC (UK, 2023); Wayfinder, Turner Contemporary (UK, 2022); Wayfinder, MK Gallery (UK, 2022); Art on the Underground, Roundel designs for TfL Westminster, London (UK, permanent installation); Relic Traveller: Where You and I Come From, We Know That We Are Not Here Forever, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (Canada, 2021); Beyond the Substrata, curated by Norman Rosenthal, Copperfield at Piccadilly Arcade (UK, 2020); When the Sky Falls, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2020); Pan African Flag For The Relic Travellers Alliance & Relic Traveller, Phase 1, 019, Ghent (Belgium, 2019); Dividednation, Primary, Nottingham (UK, 2019).
Achiampong has exhibited at institutions across the UK and internationally, including: The Art Institute of Chicago (USA); Tate Britain, London (UK); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK); Centre Pompidou-Metz (France); 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy); MACBA Barcelona (Spain); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (Spain); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (Kosovo); 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea); M.Bassy, Hamburg (Germany); Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi (Italy); Ca’Pesaro, Venice, curated by Norman Rosenthal (Italy); Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Germany); Liverpool Biennale 2021 (UK); Somerset House, London (UK); Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (UK); MG+Museum, Ljubljana (Slovenia); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (Germany); Zeppelin Museum (Germany); CCA ŁAŹNIA, Gdańsk (Poland); Compton Verney, Warwickshire (UK); Towner Gallery, Sussex (UK); Pera Museum, Istanbul (Turkey).
Awards and nominations include: The Film London Jarman Award (shortlisted, 2024); 76th BAFTA Film Awards, London (longlisted, 2023); Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York (2023); Stanley Picker Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2020-2023); Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists: Visual Arts, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London (2019-2021); Artist’s Bursary Scheme, Artsadmin, London (2016-2017).
If It Don't Exist, Build It, a major monograph of Achiampong's practice, has been published by Tate in February 2025.
His work is held in collections internationally, including Tate (UK); UK Government Art Collection; British Council Collection (UK); The Sindika Dokolo Collection, Luanda (Angola); The Science Museum, London (UK); FRAC Bretagne (France); Servais Family Collection, Brussels (Belgium).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Installation view of 'A Letter, A Pledge', solo exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery, UK, 2024. Photo credit: Reece Straw.
Installation view of the solo exhibition 'And I saw a new heaven' at Copperfield, London, 2023. Photo credit: Reece Straw.
The Expulsion, 2019. Installation view at Manifesta 14 Prishtina. Photo credit: Majlinda Hoxha.
Installation view at the 14th Gwanju Biennale, South Korea, 2023.
Speckle #1, 2020. C-Type Print, 66 x 48.4 cm. Tate Collection, London.
WayFinder, 2022-2023. 4K Video 83’35”.
WayFinder, 2022-2023. 4K Video 83’35”. Installation view at BALTIC, 2023.
#Saved only if you're the right shade of migrant, 2025. Chalk on blackboard fixed with archival finish, 150 x 150 x 4.4 cm,
Pan African Flags for the Relic Traveller's Alliance. Installation view at BALTIC, 2023.
Relic 1, 2017. 4K Video, 14''02''. Commissioned by PS/Y.
Relic 1, 4K video. Installation view at King’s College London Chapel, 2017. Image: Sue Parkhill.
Pan African Flag for the Relic Travellers’ Alliance (Ascension), 2017. Installation view at Somerset House, London.
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