Senam Okudzeto (born 1972) is an American and British artist and educator who lives and works in Basel, London, Ghana and New York City.
Her installations are designed to represent forgotten or unnoticed forms of material and architectural culture as carriers of lost or hidden histories, especially stories about the genesis of contemporary West Africa and its diaspora.
This paradigm shift in research methodology attempts to "counter" stereotypes through an analysis of constructions of the image of Africa in the past 100 years, artifacts made both in and outside the geographical boundaries of the continent".
[9] She is the founder and administrative Director of the partially-dormant NGO Art in Social Structures (AiSS), a donor member society run and funded by artists with the aim of creating and supporting heritage initiatives in Ghana.
[18][19][20] In 2017 she received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies for her project Geomancy, Modernity and Memory, Unofficial and Unrecognized Historic Civic Centers in Ghana.