Mimi Adu-Serwaah (b. 1994, Ghana) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Washington, D.C., whose practice navigates themes of duality, transformation, and resilience through a synthesis of painting and sculptural installation. Merging abstraction with figurative realism, she investigates how fragmented elements—material and conceptual—converge to form new identities, narratives, and spatial experiences.
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Rooted in a deep engagement with materiality, Adu-Serwaah’s work incorporates aluminum wire mesh, raffia, stone beads, and reclaimed acrylic fragments to construct richly textured compositions that blur the lines between painting and sculpture. Her paintings depict figures in flux—distorted, layered, and set against pastel-toned grounds—inviting reflection on imperfection, reconstruction, and the evolving nature of selfhood. Her sculptural installations, by contrast, emerge from an instinctive and experimental process, allowing materials to assert their own organic logic and form.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Allouche Gallery (Los Angeles) and the Institute Museum of Ghana (Accra, 2022). She has participated in group exhibitions at Chilli Art Projects (London, 2022), the Luanda Biennale (Angola, 2021), KO Artspace (Lagos), and ADA Gallery (Accra, 2025).
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Across both canvas and space, Adu-Serwaah challenges conventional ideals of perfection, encouraging viewers to move beyond surface impressions and engage with the layered, often fragmented, narratives embedded within each piece. Through her tactile experimentation and conceptual rigor, she offers immersive works that speak to the cycles of disintegration and renewal—reflections on selfhood, adaptation, and the continuous state of becoming.