(1995 - )
Tanoa Sasraku was born in Plymouth. Her practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, print and filmmaking. She grew up in the West Country with both white British and Ghanaian heritage, which informs the explorations of identity and queer cultural histories in her work. Sasraku graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2018 and is currently enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools. Forthcoming group exhibitions of her work include UNBUILD, Drawing Room, London (2023); Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice (2023); Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Newlyn (2023). Recent exhibitions including her work have been held at CCA Goldsmiths, London, UK (2022); O’Pierrot: Alex Vardaxoglou Gallery, London (2021); Chelsea Sorting Office (2021); Klosterruine, Berlin, (2020); LUX Moving Image, London (2020); Resist: be modern (again), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2019); and Tate St Ives, UK (2019). Sasraku’s moving image works have been screened at the BFI Southbank (as part of the 18th London Short Film Festival (2021)) and at Selected X, VideoClub online and touring (2020) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed (2019). In 2021, Sasraku was awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Arts.
