Chika Okeke-Agulu
Encyclopedia
Chika Okeke-Agulu is an Igbo-Nigerian artist, art historian, and art curator specializing in African and African Diaspora art history. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
in Nigeria
in 1966. He studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (BA, First Class Honors, Sculpture and Art History, 1990; MFA, Painting, 1994), University of South Florida, Tampa (MA, Art History, 1999), and Emory University, Atlanta (PhD, Art History, 2004).
Okeke-Agulu taught at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Penn State University, and was the Clark Visiting Professor, Williams College. He is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Center for African American Studies at the Princeton University.
, Sweden
. In 2001, he co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Martin Gropiusbau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and PS1/MOMA, New York. He served as an Academic Consultant and Coordinator of Platform 4, for Documenta11, Kassel in 2002. In 2004 he co-organized the 5th Gwangju Biennial and Strange Planet at the Georgia State University Art Gallery. He co-organized (with Udo Kittelmann and Britta Schmitz), Who Knows Tomorrow, Berlin, (June-Sept., 2010).
Biography
Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in UmuahiaUmuahia
Umuahia is the capital of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria. Umuahia is located along the rail road that lies between Port Harcourt to Umuahia's south and Enugu city to its north. Umuahia has a population of 359,230 according to the 2006 Nigerian census. Umuahia's indigenous ethnic group are the...
in Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
in 1966. He studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (BA, First Class Honors, Sculpture and Art History, 1990; MFA, Painting, 1994), University of South Florida, Tampa (MA, Art History, 1999), and Emory University, Atlanta (PhD, Art History, 2004).
Okeke-Agulu taught at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Penn State University, and was the Clark Visiting Professor, Williams College. He is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Center for African American Studies at the Princeton University.
Curator
Curated Uche Okeke 60th Birthday Anniversary Retrospective at the Goethe-Institut, Lagos. In 1995, he organized the Nigerian section of the First Johannesburg Biennale and co-organized Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Malmö Konsthall, MalmöMalmö
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, Sweden
Sweden
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. In 2001, he co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Martin Gropiusbau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and PS1/MOMA, New York. He served as an Academic Consultant and Coordinator of Platform 4, for Documenta11, Kassel in 2002. In 2004 he co-organized the 5th Gwangju Biennial and Strange Planet at the Georgia State University Art Gallery. He co-organized (with Udo Kittelmann and Britta Schmitz), Who Knows Tomorrow, Berlin, (June-Sept., 2010).