Harold is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories.

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Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. Offeh draws from popular music, film and mainstream cultural trends to interrogate our acceptance of political, class, gender, sexual identity and racial models in society. His practice has also approached themes of joy, play and Afrofuturism through performance and collective live engagements.

He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including; South London Gallery; Studio Museum Harlem, New York; Art Tower Mito, Japan Recent projects include The Mothership Collective 2.0 which at the Baltic in Gateshead and touring. His major solo survey exhibition Mmm, Got to Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet opened at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge in 2025 and will be touring the UK. In 2019 he was awarded the Paul Hamlyn award for artists, the largest award for artists in the UK.

He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at The University of Brighton, MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art and in 2020 completed a PhD by practice exploring the activation of Black Album covers through durational performance at Leeds Beckett University. He lives in Cambridge and is currently Head of Programme for MA/MFA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London. He is currently Co-Chair of New Contemporaries and a trustee of Wysing Art Centre.