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Chika Okeke-Agulu
Assistant Professor of Art History

220 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-4883
coo3@psu.edu

Education
Ph.D. in African art history (Emory University)
M.A. in African art history (University of South Florida)
M.F.A. in painting (University of Nigeria)
B.A. (First Class Honors) in sculpture and art history (University of Nigeria)

Dr. Okeke-Agulu teaches courses in classical, modern, and contemporary African art history and theory. Before coming to Penn State in 2004, he taught at Emory University, Atlanta; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. He has published articles and reviews in African Arts, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Glendora Review. He contributed to edited volumes such as Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The Nsukka Artists and Contemporary Nigerian Art, and The Grove Dictionary of Art. In addition to writing catalogue essays, he has co-organized several exhibitions, including the Nigerian Pavilion at the First Johannesburg Biennale, 1995; Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1995); and The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 (Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2001). In 2002 he served as Academic Consultant for Documenta 11 as well as coordinator of its Platform 4 conference in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2004, he co-curated and wrote catalogue essays for the Fifth Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and Strange Planet, Georgia State University Art Gallery. In spring 2006 he edited the first issue of African Arts devoted to modernism in Africa. He is currently co-writing (with Okwui Enwezor) Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (Damiani Editore, 2008). Dr. Okeke-Agulu, also a practicing artist, is co-Editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, co-published by Cornell University. Dr. Okeke-Agulu is a recipient of the College of Arts and Architecture Roy C. Buck Award for Outstanding Publication (2007), and the Arts Council of the African Studies Association Outstanding Dissertation Award (2007). Dr. Okeke-Agulu will be on leave 2007-08 at Williams College, as the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History during the fall semester, and the Clark Institute, as a Clark Fellow during the spring semester.

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