Projects
2007 AISS, Art in Social Structures, launch and exhibition, Accra, Ghana
2007 Financial Times Mudhut, The Big Chill Festival, Herefordshire, UK
2006 Artist in Residence, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, USA
2002-03 Artist in Residence, CCA7, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
2001 Artist in Residence, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 ArtOmi, International Artist Workshop, Upstate New York, USA
2000 Artist in Residence, Horniman Museum, London, UK
1999-00 Artist in Residence, Dakar, Senegal,
1999 Public Arts Workshop, British Council, Dakar, Senegal
1999 Curator of the Elders exhibition, South London Gallery, London, UK
1997 Assistant to the Artistic Director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Awards
2008 Prix de la Revelation, Dakar Biennale, 1998
2004 Arts Council of England, research and development
Lectures / Teaching
2008 Guest Speaker, Caribbean North Seminars, University of Lancaster, UK
2008 Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2007 Lecturer, NYU, Graduate Arts Program in Ghana, Accra, Ghana
2005 London Talks, London Six Easy Steps, ICA, London
2004 Lecturer, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
2002 Guest Speaker, On Hogarth, Tate Britain, London, UK
2001 Guest Speaker, Otis College of Art and Design, California, USA
2001 Guest Speaker, California Institute of the Arts, California, USA
2001 Guest Speaker, Art Center College of Design, California, USA
2001 Guest Speaker, U .C. L. A., California, USA
2001 Guest Speaker, Mills Collage, Oakland, USA
2000 Horniman Museum, Whose Africa, exhibition, schools workshops, London, UK
1994 Royal Academy of Arts, AFRICA, Art of the Continent, London, UK
Education and Qualifications
1994–95 MA Area Studies African Art History, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, UK
1991-92 Fine Art Painting Post Graduate Studies, Escolla Massana, c/ Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
1984-89 BA Hons Fine Art, Central St Martins College of Art, London, UK
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2007 ARTCO Gallery, Cologne Art Fair, Germany
2007-08 Trade Winds, Dockland Museum, London, UK
2007 AISS, exhibition and launch, Accra, Ghana
2007 Financial Times Mudhut, The Big Chill Festival, Herefordshire, UK
2007-08 Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery, The Whitworth Art Gallery, UK
2007 AFRICA SELECT, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
2007 TransCape, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 L’Homme est un mystere, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, St Brieuc, France
2006 Southern Vogue Series, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, USA
2006 A Beautiful Game, Roebling Hall Gallery, NY, USA
2006 Around the World in 80 Days, ICA, London, UK
2006 Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, NIFCA, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
2006 Look Both Ways, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
2005 Collection of the Spanish Sports Council, Ses Voltes, Palma de Mallorca
2004 Pin Up, Tate Modern, London
2004 We Two Together: GHANA.NIGERIA: OLADAPO & GODFRIED DONKOR, National Theatre, Accra, Ghana
2004 Bling Bling, London Print Studio, London, UK
2004 Hybrid, ROSL, London, UK
2003 Copy it, Steal it, Share it, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul Biennale, Turkey
2003 BIDA, Biennale of Sports and Art, Salamanca, Spain
2003 A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2003 London Print Studio, London, UK
2003 1st Flag, Casino, Luxembourg
2003 Transfers, Le Palais Des Beaux Artes, Brussells, Belgium
2003 Camouflage, Brussells, Belgium
2002 Body Power/Power Play, Wurttenbergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Origin of End, Leicester City Gallery, Leicester, England
2002 Visitors, Kunsthallen Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
2002 Populated, IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 There is No Redemption, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
2001 Boxers, Kunstalle Tirol, Austria
2001 Bartimeus Prize Exhibition, National Theatre, Ghana
2001 SportsCult, ApexArt Curatial Program, New York, USA
2001 ANSTOSS, Kunst, Sport und Politik, Albrecht Durer Kunstverein, Nurenberg, Germany
2001 Authentic/Excentric, Venice Biennale, Italy
2001 Africa Today, The Artist and The City, Barcelona, Spain
2001 The Figure 8, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
2000 The 7th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
2000 World Trade, Roebling Hall Gallery, NY, USA
2000 The Wiles of the Feminine, Barbara Green Fine Art, NY, USA
1999 Picture This - New Representational Painting, AAA Gallery, NY, USA
1999 Big River - International Artist’s Exhibition, Trinidad & Tobago
1999 Routes, Five Artists, Brunei Gallery, London, UK
1998 Cinco Continentes y Uno Ciudad Salon Exhibition, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 Dak’Art 98, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2008 The State of the Union, T1 + 2 Gallery, London, UK
2008 Once upon a time… there was lace, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, UK
2007 Financial Times, Gorre Festival, Gorre Island, Senegal
2007 Abolition 07, Hackney Museum, London, UK
2006 The Sable Venus and the Black Madonna, Gallerie 23, Amsterdam, Holland
2006 Jamestown Masquerade, Walsh Metal Works, St Croix, USVI
2005 Concerto in Light and Darkness no 1, National Museum, Ghana
2004 Godfried Donkor, Pascal Polar Gallery, Brussells, Belgium
2004 Financial Times, Ecole Regionale des Beaux Artes, Nantes, France
2003 The Fancy, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
2003 Godfried Donkor, Recent Works, The Scene Gallery, NY, USA
2002 Godfried Donkor, Albrecht Durer Kunstverein, Nuremberg, Germany
2001 Handel and Hogarth at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Vauxhall St Peters Church, London, UK
2001 Artists in Residence Exhibition, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Whose Africa, Horniman Museum, London, UK
2000 Wrestling and Mysticism, Dak’Art 2000, Dakar, Senegal
1999 Slave to Champ, E M A C A, Nottingham, UK
1995 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Installations/ Performances
2005 Jamestown Masquerade, Jamestown, Ghana
1995 Glamour, Harvey Nichols, London, UK
1994 Woodstacks, Harvey Nichols, London, UK
1994 To Be the Best, Designed by Rana Salem, Harvey Nichols, London, UK
1993 The Seven Lives of Picasso, Harvey Nichols, London, UK
Perrier sculpture, London Fashion Week Promotion, London, UK
Collections
Spanish Sports Council Collection, National Collection of Senegal, Smithsonian Institute - Washington DC, World Bank Collection, ArtOmi International Artist Collection, Paintings for Hospitals, Unilever Collection, University of Helsinki, National Gallery of Botswana, Nomadic Arts Collection, Private and Public collectors in England, Spain, Germany, USA, Ghana and Senegal.
Publications
Biblia Art Journal
Around the World in 80 Days, exhibition catalogue
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, exhibition catalogue
Concerto in Light and Darkness,exhibition catalogue
Mirar no es sufficiente, La Coleccion del Consejo Superior de Deportes, exhibition catalogue
BIDA, exhibition catalogue
A Fiction of Authenticity, exhibition catalogue
Copy it, Steal it, Share it, exhibition catalogue
Transfers, exhibition catalogue
The Fancy, exhibition catalogue
Body Power/Power Play, exhibition catalogue
There is No Redemption, exhibition catalogue
Visitors, exhibition catalogue
Africa Today, The Artist and The City, exhibition catalogue
Authentic/Excentric, exhibition catalogue
Revue Noir, Wrestling & Mysticism, exhibition catalogue
7th Havana Biennale exhibition catalogue
Frieze Magazine
Routes, exhibition catalogue
Cinco Continentes y Uno Ciudad, exhibition catalogue
Dak'Art 98, Dakar Biennale catalogue,
N K A Journal of Contemporary Art, Transforming the Crown, exhibition catalogue,
Third Text, Artrage, SportCult, Apex Art, in Flash Art Int,11–12/2001
