The Nude and the Naked, A Decade of Africa Clothe Me Bare by Yvonne Osei

On view: September 25 - October 17, 2025

Artist Talk: October 17, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Reception: October 17, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Yvonne Osei is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice spans performance,
video, photography, textile design, and site-specific installations. Her work examines history’s
omissions, structural racism, beauty, clothing politics, and colonial legacies in West Africa and
the West. Through public interventions, she challenges cultural amnesia and amplifies
marginalized voices.

Osei holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, an MS in Fashion Design and
Business from Lindenwood University, and a BFA from Webster University. She has received
numerous awards, including the 2022 Great Rivers Biennial Arts Award from the Contemporary
Art Museum St. Louis, the 2023 Award for Distinction from the Sam Fox School of Design &
Visual Arts at Washington University, and a 2024 Artist Grant from the Regional Arts
Commission of St. Louis.

She has attended residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Fountainhead in Miami,
and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others. Osei’s work has been exhibited
nationally and internationally, including at the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), The Africa
Center (Harlem), the Saint Louis Art Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Germany), and the
Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada). Osei is represented by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis and
serves as Vice President of the Surface Design Association.