Ewuresi Archer is a Ghanaian-American multi-disciplinary artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. Archer earned her BFA in Painting with an emphasis in Printmaking and a concentration in Creative Writing in 2022 from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Her work places Ghanaian culture at the center, celebrating its vibrancy while acknowledging the complexities of its coexistence with Western influence. This duality has always been a part of Archer’s lived experience, and she explores it through a glowing, saturated color palette and scrappy, energetic marks that depict everyday scenes; pounding fufu, getting a haircut, eating foods tied to memory and tradition. Through palette knife scraping, layering, and intentional distortion, she pushes her imagery toward the edge of abstraction, leaving just enough for viewers to recognize and connect with. The effect mirrors her own feelings of nostalgia and longing for a culture that, though deeply hers, has often felt just beyond reach due to her diasporic upbringing. Archer’s practice is both an invitation and a reclamation. Her art is a love letter to heritage, beauty, and belonging.

Ewuresi has exhibited nationally, with solo shows including Alluring Souls at The Beltline Project in Detroit and You Are Invited: Your Hands and Mouth Are Not at Akron Soul Train. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Waking Dream at River House Arts, MAPC: We Want More at Reinberger Gallery, and I Am My Best Work at The Painting Center in New York. She co-curated a two-person, site-specific installation for Rooms to Let in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood, demonstrating her commitment to collaborative and experimental approaches to exhibition-making.

Her work has been recognized with the First Place Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize and has been featured in publications such as Canvas Rebel and New Art Examiner.

Past examples of Ewuresi’s work include:

Acrylic and chalk pastel on canvas: Too Many Flies Her

acrylic, chalk pastel, yarn, fishing net, plastic bag on canvas: Sea Sand Ear Ache