Hello, I’m Cecilia

About the artist:

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway is a US-based Ghanaian mixed media artist versed in figurative painting, performance, abstractism and textile making.

Her practice also encompasses ideas about gender roles and womanhood, crafting works and performances that comment on societal challenges she and her fellow African women face. Born to a family of painters and textile designers, Cecilia’s childhood was characterized by lessons in batik, textile making and designing.

Taking these lessons, Cecilia employs an imaginative approach in the creation of her own traditional motifs that make up the background of her subjects’ paintings.

Upcycling mopping wool fibers, Cecilia invites viewers to explore the versatility of contemporary African women with her textured portraits. Cecilia’s practice also addresses outdated notions about gender roles and womanhood, crafting works and performances that comment on societal challenges she and her fellow women face. Cecilia is a dynamic artist whose emotive portraits and abstract works encompass heritage, sustainability and the expansive nature of womanhood.

Cecilia was the 2021-2022 fellow in the Nubuke Foundation’s Young  Ghanaian Artists (YGA) in residence. Cecilia has participated in several exhibitions and fairs, including Art X Lagos, Arco Lisboa, AKAA, Paris and Focus Art Fair, New York.

Selected Exhibition History

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, Group Show, Goldern.Our.Collective, Focus Art
Fair, New York, May 9 -12, 2024

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway:  CHROMATIC CHOICES, ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, December 7, 2023 – January 27, 2024.

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway: Booth exhibition. ARTCO Gallery at AKAA, Paris, Oct 17- 22, 2023.

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway: Spirit and Rhythm of Africa Dance (2003): Commissioned Artwork for Brooklyn Academic of Music (BAM) as part of DanceAfrica 2023, May 24 -June 11, 2023. Curated for BAM by Larry Ossei-Mensah, BAM Guest Curator-at-large: Available at: https://www.bam.org/visual-art/2023/spirit-and-rhythym-of-african-dance  

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway: Booth exhibition. ARTCO Gallery at Arco Lisboa, May 25 – May 28, 2023.

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, Group exhibition, Prizm Art Fair, Nubuke Foundation (Ghana), Florida: Virtual Exhibition, November 9 –December 11, 2022:

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, (Virtual) Nubuke Foundation (Ghana) at ART X Lagos 2022, November 2 – November 10, 2022:

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, Solo Exhibition, Make We Dance, Nubuke Foundation (Ghana), June 11- August 31, 2022: Link. https://nubukefoundation.viewingrooms.com/

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway: Janet Rady Fine Arts: Group Online Exhibition: Celebrating the Black Body: Feb 1, 2002- Feb 22, 2022.

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, NUBUKE Foundation (Online exhibition) Art X Lagos 2021, November 4- November 21.

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, Nubuke Foundation, (Online exhibition), Artsy, July 2- October 30, 2021.

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway, Janet Rady Fine Art presents Inside | Outside, a vibrant exhibition of work by twelve female artists from around the world, exclusively online: 3 February to 2 March 2021.

Education

 Yaba School of Art, Design and Textiles: Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria, 2012-2015