Ewuresi Archer

Ewuresi Archer is a multidisciplinary Ghanaian American artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022 with a BFA in Painting, an emphasis in Printmaking and a concentration in Creative Writing. She explores the use of textile, painting, printmaking, sculpture and installation, focusing on the nuances of everyday Ghanaian life.

She is an artist who works with a multitude of mediums and her work thrives through accumulation, using materials such as paint, pastel, yarn, batik and fishnet, which she layers across surfaces to hold a particular tension between discomfort and admiration. A piece only feels complete when it evokes exactly what she wants a viewer to feel: seduction, restlessness, anxiety and beauty existing simultaneously. Her approach to color is often loud and confrontational. Using a palette knife solely to paint, she builds dense, textured surfaces that mirror the layered contradictions of lived experience. Ewuresi is not offering romance without friction; she leans into the difficult truths that coexist with affection, acknowledging that love and celebration does not always arrive gently. At it's core, Archer wants her fellow Ghanaians to not just celebrate ourselves but to work on undoing colonial ways that were forced onto us.

Ewuresi has exhibited nationally, with a recent Accra debut solo show " A Love Letter With Teeth" at Berj Gallery in Accra, Alluring Souls at The Beltline Project in Detroit and You Are Invited: Your Hands and Mouth Are Not at Akron Soul Train. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Waking Dream at River House Arts, "Don't Touch Me" at Waterloo Arts in Cleveland, OH and I Am My Best Work at The Painting Center in New York. She co-curated a two-person, site-specific installation "Yearning" for Rooms to Let in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood, demonstrating her commitment to collaborative and experimental approaches to exhibition-making. Beyond her studio practice, Archer is an active community builder and educator. She has led workshops in screen printing and collage at institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Art, taught art to audiences ranging from children to adults, and participated in artist lectures at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She has also designed posters and album covers for organizations such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition, she serves as co-coordinator of the Black Arts Showcase Cleveland, a platform dedicated to celebrating and supporting Black artists in her community.Her work has been recognized with the First Place Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize and has been featured in publications such as Guzangs and Canvas Rebel.

Ewuresi Archer: A Love Letter With Teeth

Curated by Nana Yaa Poku Asare-Boadu

26 April - 7 June 2026

Berj Accra

Join Us! on Sunday, 26th April for “A Love Letter with Teeth” An upcoming solo exhibition by Ewuresi Archer curated by Nana Yaa Poku Asare-Boadu. What begins in beauty does...

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Ewuresi Archer Ghanaian - American, b. 1999

Ewuresi Archer: A Love Letter With Teeth

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