Chika Okeke-Agulu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chika Okeke-Agulu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chika |
| FAMILY NAME | Okeke-Agulu |
| SIGNATURE | OKEKE-AGULU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chika Okeke-Agulu is Robert Schirmer Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Director of Program in African Studies, and Director of Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Josèfa Ntjam
Emma Prempeh
Born in England in 1996 of a Vincentian mother and Ghanaian father, Emma Prempeh's emerging practice as a painter is at once breathtaking, refreshing, and brimming with captivating confidence. Committed as she may be to the Black figure and to the compelling lives, stories, and memories it signifies and illustrates, what sets Prempeh apart is the idiosyncratic rigor of her pictorial tactics. Mostly given to a low-key, earthy, and dark viridian pa…
Beatrice Wanjiku
Wangechi Mutu’s Ecofeminist Vision in The End of Eating Everything
Commentators on Wangechi Mutu’s enigmatic animated video The End of Eating Everything (2015) claim that it depicts a gluttonous monster-woman with an insatiable appetite, devouring hapless birds. It is seen as a commentary on threat posed by ruthless global forces represented by the beast with a beautiful Black woman’s face. This article argues, instead, that the woman represents violated and polluted Earth, a victim of carnivorous birds, who, in…
Studio Call
Research Article| May 01 2024 Studio Call: Mikhael Subotzky Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu is the Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archeology and African American Studies, director of the Program in African Studies, and director of the Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 102–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-11205487 Views …
Africa in Venice
Studio Call
Research Article| May 01 2023 Studio Call: Wangechi Mutu Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu is Robert Schirmer Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Director of Program in African Studies, and Director of Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 108–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10435050 Views Icon Views Article contents Fi…
Studio Call
In February 2020, the author spent a day with Penny Siopis in her studio at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, to discuss the artist’s new ink and wood-glue paintings, which she adopted in 2008 as her primary painting medium. This new direction is quite significant for an artist who, in the 1980s at the height of the antiapartheid movement, made ardently realistic figurative oil and mixed-media paintings that signified the…
Tejumola “Teju” Olaniyan
Okwui Enwezor
Research Article| May 01 2019 Okwui Enwezor: In Memoriam (1963–2019) Salah M. Hassan; Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7682518 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan, Chika Okeke-A…
American Art, Africa, and the Diaspora
Editorial| November 01 2017 American Art, Africa, and the Diaspora Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4271597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chika Okeke-Agulu; American Art, Africa, and the Diaspora. Nka 1 November 2017; 2017 (41): 4–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Ramez Elias
Obituary| November 01 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS: In Memoriam (1958–2016) Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu; Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3777031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Contemporary African Artists and the Pan-African Imaginary: Skunder Boghossian, Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, and Victor Ekpuk
The three artists discussed in this essay represent three generations of artists whose work exemplifies the accomplishments of African modernism and its enduring legacies as well as the complex conceptual, cultural, political, and ideological resources that constituted and continue to frame the twentieth-and twenty-first-century Pan-African artistic imaginary. Their work provides us the opportunity to measure and appreciate the various strategies…
Who Knows Tomorrow
Who Knows Tomorrow, an exhibition of independent projects by five African artists, opened at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in June 2010. Conceived in response to an invitation by the office of the then federal president Horst Köhler to propose an “African art” exhibition in Berlin to coincide with a conference of the president's Africa Forum initiative, the project explored the difficult and complex colonial and postcolonial relationship between A…
Conversation with Zarina Bhimji
Recently I engaged in conversation with Zarina Bhimji, one of the five artists participating in Who Knows Tomorrow. Bhimji was born in Mbarara, Uganda, in 1963. Of Asian ancestry, she moved with her family to England as a child, following the expulsion of Asian-Ugandans by the Idi Amin regime in the early 1970s. She trained at the Goldsmiths College (1983–86) and the Slade School of Art, London (1987–89). She lives in London.A photographer, filmm…
The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria
This essay focuses on the work of the Art Society-a group formed by art students at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology, Zaria (1957-61)-and suggests that the work of its key members in the 1960s was the first significant manifestation of postcolonial modernism in Nigeria. Postcolonial modernism, the essay argues, refers to a set of formal and critical attitudes adopted by African and black artists at the dawn of political indepe…
Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and GHADA Amer
Research Article| November 01 2009 Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, GAZBIA SIRRY and GHADA AMER Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 8–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-8 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chika Okeke-Agulu; Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, GAZBIA SIR…
The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld
September 01 2008 The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld Sidney Kasfir, Sidney Kasfir Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Delinda Collier, Delinda Collier Delinda Collier is a PhD student at Emory University studying Chokwe art, Angolan identity and the Trienal…
Venice and Contemporary African Art
September 01 2007 Venice and Contemporary African Art Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is an artist and independent curator. He is the senior editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and assistant professor in art history at Penn State University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Chika Okeke-Agulu CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is an artist and indepe…
Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Modernism in Nigeria: The Art of Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko, 1960–1968: [With Commentary]
The Challenge of the Modern: An Introduction
Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and Ghada Amer
Onobrakpeya, Bruce
Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Modernism in Nigeria: The Art of Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko, 1960–1968: [With Commentary]
The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld
September 01 2008 The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld Sidney Kasfir, Sidney Kasfir Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Delinda Collier, Delinda Collier Delinda Collier is a PhD student at Emory University studying Chokwe art, Angolan identity and the Trienal…
Tejumola “Teju” Olaniyan
Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and GHADA Amer
Research Article| November 01 2009 Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, GAZBIA SIRRY and GHADA AMER Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 8–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-8 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chika Okeke-Agulu; Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, GAZBIA SIR…
Venice and Contemporary African Art
September 01 2007 Venice and Contemporary African Art Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is an artist and independent curator. He is the senior editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and assistant professor in art history at Penn State University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Chika Okeke-Agulu CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is an artist and indepe…
The Challenge of the Modern: An Introduction
Contemporary African Artists and the Pan-African Imaginary: Skunder Boghossian, Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, and Victor Ekpuk
The three artists discussed in this essay represent three generations of artists whose work exemplifies the accomplishments of African modernism and its enduring legacies as well as the complex conceptual, cultural, political, and ideological resources that constituted and continue to frame the twentieth-and twenty-first-century Pan-African artistic imaginary. Their work provides us the opportunity to measure and appreciate the various strategies…
Who Knows Tomorrow
Who Knows Tomorrow, an exhibition of independent projects by five African artists, opened at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in June 2010. Conceived in response to an invitation by the office of the then federal president Horst Köhler to propose an “African art” exhibition in Berlin to coincide with a conference of the president's Africa Forum initiative, the project explored the difficult and complex colonial and postcolonial relationship between A…
Conversation with Zarina Bhimji
Recently I engaged in conversation with Zarina Bhimji, one of the five artists participating in Who Knows Tomorrow. Bhimji was born in Mbarara, Uganda, in 1963. Of Asian ancestry, she moved with her family to England as a child, following the expulsion of Asian-Ugandans by the Idi Amin regime in the early 1970s. She trained at the Goldsmiths College (1983–86) and the Slade School of Art, London (1987–89). She lives in London.A photographer, filmm…
The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria
This essay focuses on the work of the Art Society-a group formed by art students at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology, Zaria (1957-61)-and suggests that the work of its key members in the 1960s was the first significant manifestation of postcolonial modernism in Nigeria. Postcolonial modernism, the essay argues, refers to a set of formal and critical attitudes adopted by African and black artists at the dawn of political indepe…
Onobrakpeya, Bruce
Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Modernism in Nigeria: The Art of Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko, 1960–1968: [With Commentary]
The Challenge of the Modern: An Introduction
Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and Ghada Amer
Venice and Contemporary African Art
September 01 2007 Venice and Contemporary African Art Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is an artist and independent curator. He is the senior editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and assistant professor in art history at Penn State University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Chika Okeke-Agulu CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU is an artist and indepe…
The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld
September 01 2008 The (Dis)placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld Sidney Kasfir, Sidney Kasfir Sidney Kasfir is a professor of African art history at Emory University and Dialogue editor for African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Delinda Collier, Delinda Collier Delinda Collier is a PhD student at Emory University studying Chokwe art, Angolan identity and the Trienal…
Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and GHADA Amer
Research Article| November 01 2009 Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, GAZBIA SIRRY and GHADA AMER Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 8–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2009-25-8 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chika Okeke-Agulu; Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, GAZBIA SIR…
Who Knows Tomorrow
Who Knows Tomorrow, an exhibition of independent projects by five African artists, opened at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in June 2010. Conceived in response to an invitation by the office of the then federal president Horst Köhler to propose an “African art” exhibition in Berlin to coincide with a conference of the president's Africa Forum initiative, the project explored the difficult and complex colonial and postcolonial relationship between A…
Conversation with Zarina Bhimji
Recently I engaged in conversation with Zarina Bhimji, one of the five artists participating in Who Knows Tomorrow. Bhimji was born in Mbarara, Uganda, in 1963. Of Asian ancestry, she moved with her family to England as a child, following the expulsion of Asian-Ugandans by the Idi Amin regime in the early 1970s. She trained at the Goldsmiths College (1983–86) and the Slade School of Art, London (1987–89). She lives in London.A photographer, filmm…
The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria
This essay focuses on the work of the Art Society-a group formed by art students at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology, Zaria (1957-61)-and suggests that the work of its key members in the 1960s was the first significant manifestation of postcolonial modernism in Nigeria. Postcolonial modernism, the essay argues, refers to a set of formal and critical attitudes adopted by African and black artists at the dawn of political indepe…
Contemporary African Artists and the Pan-African Imaginary: Skunder Boghossian, Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, and Victor Ekpuk
The three artists discussed in this essay represent three generations of artists whose work exemplifies the accomplishments of African modernism and its enduring legacies as well as the complex conceptual, cultural, political, and ideological resources that constituted and continue to frame the twentieth-and twenty-first-century Pan-African artistic imaginary. Their work provides us the opportunity to measure and appreciate the various strategies…
Ramez Elias
Obituary| November 01 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS: In Memoriam (1958–2016) Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu; Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3777031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
American Art, Africa, and the Diaspora
Editorial| November 01 2017 American Art, Africa, and the Diaspora Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-4271597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chika Okeke-Agulu; American Art, Africa, and the Diaspora. Nka 1 November 2017; 2017 (41): 4–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Okwui Enwezor
Research Article| May 01 2019 Okwui Enwezor: In Memoriam (1963–2019) Salah M. Hassan; Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7682518 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan, Chika Okeke-A…
Studio Call
In February 2020, the author spent a day with Penny Siopis in her studio at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, to discuss the artist’s new ink and wood-glue paintings, which she adopted in 2008 as her primary painting medium. This new direction is quite significant for an artist who, in the 1980s at the height of the antiapartheid movement, made ardently realistic figurative oil and mixed-media paintings that signified the…
Tejumola “Teju” Olaniyan
Studio Call
Research Article| May 01 2023 Studio Call: Wangechi Mutu Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu is Robert Schirmer Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, Director of Program in African Studies, and Director of Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 108–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-10435050 Views Icon Views Article contents Fi…
Wangechi Mutu’s Ecofeminist Vision in The End of Eating Everything
Commentators on Wangechi Mutu’s enigmatic animated video The End of Eating Everything (2015) claim that it depicts a gluttonous monster-woman with an insatiable appetite, devouring hapless birds. It is seen as a commentary on threat posed by ruthless global forces represented by the beast with a beautiful Black woman’s face. This article argues, instead, that the woman represents violated and polluted Earth, a victim of carnivorous birds, who, in…
Studio Call
Research Article| May 01 2024 Studio Call: Mikhael Subotzky Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu is the Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archeology and African American Studies, director of the Program in African Studies, and director of the Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 102–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-11205487 Views …
Africa in Venice
Emma Prempeh
Born in England in 1996 of a Vincentian mother and Ghanaian father, Emma Prempeh's emerging practice as a painter is at once breathtaking, refreshing, and brimming with captivating confidence. Committed as she may be to the Black figure and to the compelling lives, stories, and memories it signifies and illustrates, what sets Prempeh apart is the idiosyncratic rigor of her pictorial tactics. Mostly given to a low-key, earthy, and dark viridian pa…
Beatrice Wanjiku
Josèfa Ntjam
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