| Chika Okeke-Agulu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 Umuahia, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | University of Nigeria, Nsukka; University of South Florida, Tampa; Emory University, Atlanta |
| Occupation | Art Historian, Artist, Curator |
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.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia 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.
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, Malmö, 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).
Okeke-Agulu has published articles and reviews in African Arts, The Eye: A Journal of Contemporary Art; Glendora Review; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; South Atlantic Quarterly; and Art South Africa. He has contributed to edited volumes, including Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Market Place; The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movement in Africa, 1945–1994; Art Criticism and Africa; and Is Art History Global? His books include Contemporary African Art Since 1980[1] (2009) and Who Knows Tomorrow (2010) and Phyllis Galembo: Maske[2] (2010). He is editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, published by Duke University Press.