Name: Martin Toloku 

martintoloku@gmail.com 

+233 200 699 419 /+31616736792

Multidisciplinary Artist  

https://tolokuart.jimdofree.com/

Date of Birth: 25th July, 1992 

Place of Birth: Adidome, Volta Region 

Nationality: Ghanaian 

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Kumasi, Ghana

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2009-2013 Sogakope Senior High School (Visual Art) Sogakope

2007-2009-Akatsi No. 1 Junior High School (Graphic Design) Akatsi

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019 to Date - Project manager at perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR) Kumasi

2015 to date - Working as Artist Assistant at  crazinisT artisT studiO

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022 - TSƐƒe (Dolurrh), Kumasi 

2020 - My CONFINED HALLUCINATION, crazinisT  artisT studiO, 

2019 - AGBEku ( life death ) , crazinisT artisT studiO

2018 -Anisthetics, Lashibi Highway 

2017 -Time to tell, Junction Mall at Nungua Barrier, 

2016 -Dekay, Exhibition at District Assembly Conference Hall, Sogakope

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021- To  seep in a crooning manner, Alliance Francaise Kumasi

2019 - So Urgent oo0 group exhibition , Kumasi

2018 - Chale Wote Street Art Festival, Para Other . Accra Jamestown

2017- Chale Wote Street Art Festival at Jamestown, Accra.

2015 -Territoire de Creation, art residency at Lome, Togo

2013 -National Farmers Day at Sogakope, Volta Region

 

PERFORMANCES

2022

- One "O" One,  performance, installation and video at Rijksakademie  Amsterdam/Netherland 

-EnU va DZinYE ( I'm possessed ), Chale Wote Street Art Festival Usher fort Accra.

- TSƐƒe (Dolurrh), Kumasi 

-NYAME Dua, performance/spoken words and wood carving in collaboration with Kwame Brenya.

 

2021

- Future Remains, in collaboration with Emilio Gordoa (Mexico) and Lena Czerniawska (Poland)

- Memory Immortalized, a collaboration with Emilio Gordoa (Mexico) and Lena Czerniawska (Poland)

-Hedge-Subs[tant]itute, a collaborative performance/film with  Eryka Dellenbach (USA)

 

2020

- a SUMMONED to CIRCUM, Usher Fort Accra

- MINYAGBETE ( Let Keep Wake),Top High opposite Ghanamy Kumasi

- My CONFINED HALLUCINATION, crazinisT  artisT studiO, Odoum

- INMATES, a collaboration between Ibukun Sunday (Nigeria), live streams on virtual platforms.

- The MIRAGE of TOMORROW, live on zoom hosted by Hexxyduxxybox India.

- When the Bats go to Accra, co-ordinated by Lilly Pfalzer (Austria/Germany) Kejetia Market Kumasi.                                         

- The World Between, a collaboration with Léllé Demertzi (Greece) at Nubuke Foundation Accra 

 

   2019

- CONSTERNATION , Nkabom literary Festival , Jamestown beach Accra

- a GAze of tiME , at James Fort prison Jamestown Accra. Chale Wote street art festival

- AGBEm) { Life path }, at Alliance Française Kumasi.

- AGBEku ( life death ) series 3 , at crazinisT artisT studiO Kumasi. 

- AGBEku ( life death ) series 2, Alliance Française Accra

- AGBEku ( life death ) , crazinisT artisT studiO

 

RESIDENCY/ BIENNALE

2022 to date - Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten ,Amsterdam 

2020 - Kampala Art Biennale ( KAB20 )

2019 - PerfocraZe International Artist Residency - pIAR ,Kumasi Ghana

2015 - Territoire de Creation, art residency at Lome, Togo

 

OTHER ART PROJECTS

2022 - Facilitator at No Intermission, Theater Carré Amsterdam 

2020 - World University of Design ( WUD), Without Borders! 

2019 - Virtual Reality workshop at Alliance Française Accra.

2019 -  Jobs for the Youth ,boot camp supported by British council and Giz

2018 - Ghana Must Go: Forward , Three month Co-working space. Funder  British Council , Nubuke Foundation and Basecamp Initiative

 

OTHER SKILLS

Photography 

Painting 

Furniture (sculpture and joinery)

Carpentry/Building and construction