Chika Okeke-Agulu is a Nigerian artist, art historian, art curator, and blogger specializing in African and African diaspora art history.
14 Facts About Chika Okeke-Agulu
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Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia in Nigeria in 1966.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of South Florida, and Emory University.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu was a writer and columnist for The Huffington Post, and blogs at Ofodunka.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu has published articles and reviews in Parkett, African Arts, Glendora Review, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, South Atlantic Quarterly, Artforum International, and Art South Africa.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu's books include El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture, Yusuf Grillo: Painting.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu is editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, published by Duke University Press.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu co-organized Life Objects: Rites of Passage in African Art for the Princeton University Art Museum in 2009, and, Who Knows Tomorrow, at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin,.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu's work is in the collections of the Newark Museum; Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth; and the National Council for Arts and Culture, Lagos.
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In 2020, Chika Okeke-Agulu called on auction house Christie's to cancel its planned Paris sale of two Igbo sculptures, which were stolen during the Nigeria-Biafra War.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu has served on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, and currently on the board of Princeton in Africa, the Transnational Board of Tate-Hyundai Research Centre, Tate Modern, and on the advisory board of the Africa Institute, Sharjah.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu is a member of the Contemporary Art Committee, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu received The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award, from the Arts Council of African Studies Association ; and College Art Association 2016 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu is the recipient, from the African Studies Association, of the 2016 Melville J Herskovits Award for the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English in 2015, and Honorable Mention, The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award, from the Art Council of African Studies Association.