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Chika Okeke-Agulu was born on 1966 in Umuahia, Nigeria, is a Nigerian artist. Discover Chika Okeke-Agulu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Chika Okeke-Agulu is a Nigerian artist, art historian, art curator, and blogger specializing in African and African diaspora art history.

He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

1960

Curated Uche Okeke 60th Birthday Anniversary Retrospective at the Goethe-Institut, Lagos.

1966

Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia in Nigeria in 1966.

1990

He studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (BA, First Class Honors, Sculpture and Art History, 1990; MFA, Painting, 1994), University of South Florida (MA, Art History, 1999), and Emory University (PhD, Art History, 2004).

Okeke-Agulu taught at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Penn State University, and was the Clark Visiting professor at Williams College.

He is the Director of the Program in African Studies, Director of Africa World Initiative, and Robert Schirmer Professor of Art & Archaeology and African American Studies at Princeton University.

1995

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, Malmö, Sweden.

He participated in the First Johannesburg Biennale (1995).

His work is in the collections of the Newark Museum, Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, and the National Council for Arts and Culture, Lagos.

1999

He has contributed to edited volumes, including Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Market Place (InIVA, 1999); The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art (Smithsonian, 2002); The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movement in Africa, 1945–1994 (Prestel, 2001); Art Criticism and Africa (Saffron Books, 1998); and Is Art History Global? (Routledge, 2007).

His books include El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture (Damiani, 2022), ''Yusuf Grillo: Painting.

Lagos.

2001

In 2001, he co-curated 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.

2002

He claims to have served as an Academic Consultant and Coordinator of Platform 4, for Documenta11, Kassel in 2002.

2004

In 2004 he co-organized the 5th Gwangju Biennial and Strange Planet at the Georgia State University Art Gallery.

2009

He co-organized Life Objects: Rites of Passage in African Art for the Princeton University Art Museum in 2009, and (with Udo Kittelmann and Britta Schmitz), Who Knows Tomorrow, at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, (June-Sept., 2010).

2016

He received the College Art Association 2016 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism.

He is the recipient, from 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 (2017).

2019

In 2019, he co-organized (with Okwui Enwezor), El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale at Haus der Kunst, Munich, MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and Kunstmuseum, Bern.

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.

2020

In spring 2020 he was appointed the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

In 2022 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University (2022-2023), and is a Fellow of The British Academy.

In 2023, he was appointed Senior Advisor, Modern and Contemporary Art, at Edo Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria.

He was a writer and columnist for The Huffington Post, and blogs at Ọfọdunka.

He has served on the Board of Directors of College Arts 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.

He is a member of the Contemporary Art Committee, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Life (Skira, 2020), Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira, 2016), Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Duke UP, 2015), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (Damiani, 2009), Who Knows Tomorrow (Konig, 2010), Phyllis Galembo: Maske (Chris Boot, 2010), and Ezumeezu: Essays on Nigerian Art and Architecture, a Festschrift in Honour of Demas Nwoko'' (Goldline & Jacobs, 2012).

He is editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, published by Duke University Press.

As an artist, Okeke-Agulu has had three solo exhibitions, five joint exhibitions, and twenty-eight group exhibitions in England, Germany, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

In 2020, 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 (1967-1970).

The auction went ahead.