Background
Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia in Nigeria in 1966.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu
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He studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (Bachelor, First Class Honors, Sculpture and Art History, 1990. Master of Fine Arts, Painting, 1994), University of South Florida, Tampa (Master of Arts, Art History, 1999), and Emory University, Atlanta (Doctor of Philosophy, Art History, 2004).
Career
He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. 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 Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Department of African American Studies at the Princeton University.
He is a writer and columnist for The Huffington Post, and blogger at Ọfọdunka.
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/Museum of Modern Art, New 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 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-September, 2010). 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 of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Trindad and Tobago, and the United States. 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.
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Membership
He is a member of the Board of Directors of College Arts Association.
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Nigerian