Enam Gbewonyo (b. 1980) is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist, curator, and founder of BBFA (Black British Female Artist) collective. Her art practice explores identity, particularly womanhood, and advocates for the healing benefits of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for healing and awareness to counter systems of oppression such as racism and sexism. Her work prompts audiences to confront the truths and emotions surrounding colonial legacies.

Gbewonyo’s work was recently the subject of a solo presentation at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK.

Recent group exhibitions include Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory and Belonging, Bemis Center, Omaha, US; Body Poetics, GIANT Gallery, Southampton, UK; Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London, UK. 

Gbewonyo works can be found in several private and public collections including Fondation H, Madagascar and White & Case LLP, United Kingdom. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally at the 58th Venice Biennale, Art X Lagos, and UNTITLED Art Fair Miami. She is a 2022 Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award recipient, winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize, as well as of the New Art Exchange Future Exhibition Prize. She is also a fellow of Kehinde Wiley’s acclaimed Black Rock Senegal artist residency.