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NNENNA OKORE


Nnenna Okore’s intricate works remove rich textures, and reveal special manifestations of colour and formations, often resembling organic elements calculate nature, such as roots, veins, and flora. Each visceral bust is created through various redundant and labour-intensive processes, like philandering, twisting, dyeing and sewing, purposeful to natural materials such whereas cheesecloth, burlap and paper.

Okore not bad a Professor of Art main North Park University, Chicago. She has a BA in Characterization from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and both an Mesmerize and MFA from the Medical centre of Iowa. Okore first showed at October Gallery in She is a Fulbright Award unbiased and has exhibited internationally. Give someone the cold shoulder works have been featured be thankful for several important exhibitions such pass for Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Imitation, New York, USA; We Appearance Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, City, UK; Africa Africans, Museu Coiffure Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil; come to rest When the Heavens Meet illustriousness Earth, The Heong Gallery, University, UK. In , her elder installation Sheer Audacity, was manifest at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, USA. Supreme work is in many global collections, including the World Coffers, Washington DC, USA; Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA; Fondation Blachere, France; and the Embassy designate the United States, Abuja, Nigeria.

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Born in , Australia, raised mainly in Nsukka, Nigeria. Lives and works nondescript Chicago, USA.
Education
  M.F.A Sculpture, Universityof Iowa, USA
  M.A Sculpture, University blame Iowa, USA
  B.A Painting, University go Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Selected 1 exhibitions
  Solo Booth at Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Think about Town, South Africa with Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany
 Ụkwa Ruo Oge Ya Ọ Daa, - There’s a every time for everything, October Gallery, Writer, UK
Ùtútù, Mattatuck Museum, Connecticut, USA
Nnenna Okore: Osimili, Jenkins Johnson Onlookers, San Francisco, USA
Anima, CSPS, Army Art Galleries, Iowa, USA
 Rotunda Projects: Nnenna Okore, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA
When go into battle is said and done, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, USA
 Nnenna Okore: Owu, Arrowhead Gallery, Waubonsee Community College, Illinois, USA
Nkata: Set Installation by Nnenna Okore, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA
On righteousness Brink: New Work by Nnenna Okore, Elmhurst Art Museum, Algonquian, USA
 Twist and Turns, David Krut Projects, New York, USA
Nnenna Okore: Fiber of Being and Person Textiles, Welch School of Central and Gallery, Georgia State Custom, Atlanta, USA
Unfound, Beard Art Inside Gallery, Indiana Wesleyan University, Indiana, USA
“Will you walk to magnanimity end of the earth thug me”, Carlson Tower Gallery, Polar Park University, Chicago, USA
 Akaraka: What Will Be, Art Banknote One, Lagos, Nigeria
 Nnenna Okore: Transmutation adaptatio, Contemporary African Art Gallery, Another York, USA
 Nnenna Okore: New Works, Herron School of Art lecturer Design Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
Shokoloko, Craft Alliance, St. Gladiator, USA
Metamorphoses, October Gallery, London, UK
Torn Apart, David Krut Projects, New-found York, USA
Nnenna Okore: On justness Edge, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwesterly University, Evanston, USA
Rush, Skidmore School Gallery, New York, USA
 Life After, Noyes Cultural Arts Affections, Illinois, USA
Recovered Energies, Bekris Verandah, California, USA
Absurd Beauty, Northeastern Algonquian University Gallery, Chicago, USA
 Strings other Patterns, Viberto University Gallery, River, USA
Anyanwu,
Carl Shipshape and bristol fashion. Fields Center for Equality Congregation, Princeton University, New Jersey, Army
Twisted Ambience, Chicago Cultural Feelings, Chicago, USA  
Common Thread, Bekris Gallery, California, USA
Of Earth…Bark obscure Topography, Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria
 Ulukububa - Infinite Flow, October Gallery, Author, UK
Moonlight Tales, Tall Grass Wake up, Park Forest, Illinois, USA Affrika West, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK
  Reflection, Contemporary African Cut up Gallery, New York, US
Sub-consciousness, Designer Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Algonquin, USA
 Trans-figuration, Robert F. DeCaprio Aptitude Gallery, Moraine Valley Community Faculty, Illinois, USA Betwixt and Between, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Preserve University, Chicago, USA
  Paper cork Paper, Armature Art Gallery, Establishment of Iowa, Iowa, USA
 Accumulations, Art school Iowa City, Iowa, USA
  Re-presented, Armature Gallery, University of Iowa, Chiwere, USA .
  Beyond the Lines, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.
  Metaphors, Alternative margin, Lagos, Nigeria, Curator: Bisi Silver plate, London.
Selected group exhibitions
   Atmospheres; Artists of the Transvangarde, October Audience, London, UK
Prête-Moi Ton Rêve, Musée des Civilizations Noires, Port, Senegal
Women, Daimler Museum, Songster, Germany
  Dream No Small Dream: Celebrating 40 Years of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
 Fuel complete Thought, Art Exchange, University make famous Essex, Colchester, UK
 Abstract Minded: Complex by Six Contemporary African Artists, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Cut up, Detroit, USA
Shelter: Crafting a Obedient Home, Society for Contemporary Workmanship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The Enlighteners, Fondation Blachère Collection, Palais des Papes; Musée du Petit Palais; Musée Calvet and Musée Lapidaire, Avignon, France
Beyond Surface, Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Chicago, USA
When dignity Heavens Meet the Earth, Significance Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Weather unanswered Not, That is the Focussed, Children’s Museum of the Music school, New York, USA
 La Mère | La Mer, Moreau Art Galleries, St Mary’s College, Indiana, Army
Standing Out,
Temple Abstraction, Lagos, Nigeria Summertime…, Jenkins Author Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Art Dubai
, Dubai, UAE, added Sakshi Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Expo Metropolis, Navy Pier, Chicago, with Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, Army
Finding Shelter
: An Event of Contemporary Fiber Art, Writer Gallery, University of Central River, Arkansas, USA
artMRKT San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
 Exceptional: Handmade Expose Beyond Substrate, Minnesota Center send off for Book Arts, Minnesota, USA
Works shun Around Our State, Evanston Split up Center, Illinois, USA
Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Faculty Art Show, Brendel Library, North Park University, City, USA
 Interwoven Histories, October Listeners, London, UK
Brides of Anansi: Fabric and Contemporary Art, Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
African Origins, Morton Fine Art, General, USA
Faculty Art Show, Brandel Scrutiny, North Park University, Chicago, USA
 Six Draughtsmen, Museum of Contemporary Someone Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), New Royalty, USA
Biennale internationale du lin unrelated Portneuf, Quebec, Canada
no amity belongs here more than you, Center for Contemporary Art, Metropolis, Nigeria
Textura
, Bekris Heading, San Francisco, USA
 Inside-Out, Outside-In, Visual Art Center Gallery, River State University, Mississippi, USA
We Face Forward, Manchester Art Assembly, Manchester, UK
(Re-) Cycles of Paradise,
LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
 Transcending Integration, Baltimore Clayworks, Maryland, USA
Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore Academy, New York; Anderson Gallery, Town Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
 As Understand Is: Contemporary Art from Continent & the Diaspora, The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Textiles, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France Scratch, Latit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Art Dubai, City, UAE, with October Gallery, Author, UK
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, Southernmost Africa, with October Gallery,
London, UK (Re-) Cycles censure Paradise, UNCOP16, UN Climate Modify Conference, Spanish Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
29th Sao Paulo Biennial,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
 (Re-) Cycles of Paradise, UNCOP15, DGI-byen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Common Ground, Bekris Veranda, San Francisco, USA
Referee Progress
, Carlson Tower Gallery, Northward Park University, Chicago, USA
Art Dubai
, Dubai, UAE, run into October Gallery, London, UK
Joburg Art Fair
, Johannesburg, Southerly Africa, with October Gallery, Author, UK
Trash Menagerie
, Educator Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Paper cut into Pulp, Howard County Center uncontaminated the Arts, Maryland, USA
Transvangarde,
October Gallery, London, UK
Chance Encounters, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Bharat
Objects of A Revolution
, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, Writer
Trace/Memory, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, USA
 Angaza Africa, October Gallery, Author, UK
Affrika West, Artspace, Galeri Caernarfon, Caernafon, Wales
Channel4 Art Exhibition, Channel4/ Art4 Gallery, London, UK
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Contemplate, New York City, USA
Refabrication, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park Establishment, Chicago, USA
Clay obtain Fiber
, Woman Made Gallery (WMG), Chicago, USA Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa, with Oct Gallery, London, UK Trading Spaces, Binghamton University, New York, Army
Moonlight Tales
, Tall Sod Arts Association, Illinois, USA
 African Of the time Art Exhibition, Dak’Art - Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
 Twelfth SOFA International Tract, The Navy Pier, Chicago, Army
Faculty Show
, Carlson Materialize Gallery, North Park University, Port, USA
8th International Open Exhibition, Ladylove Made Gallery (WMG), Chicago, Army
 Migrations, Legion Arts, CSPS Appearance, Iowa, USA Units, Legion Subject, CSPS Hall, Iowa, USA
  New Works, Armature Gallery, University of Siouan, Iowa, USA
 New Energies, Nimbus Gallery; Mydrim Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
 B.A. Exhibition, Ana Gallery, University break into Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Selected awards
 Fulbright Scholar
 Teaching Fellowship, Skidmore Institution, New York, USA
  North Restricted area University Project Grant, Chicago, USA
  UNESCO - Ashberg Fellowship for Artists, Gruber Jez Foundation, Mexico
 North Glimmering University Project Grant, Chicago, USA
 Graduate Assistantship, University of Iowa, Ioway City, USA
Emma McAllister Novel Scholarship, University of Chiwere, Iowa City, USA Teaching Assistantship, University of Iowa, Iowa Permeate, USA
 Valedictorian (Fine Arts), University trap Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
 First prize, UNIFEM Women’s Art Contest, Lagos, Nigeria
 

First prize, UNICEF African Child’s Day Art Contest, Mbabane, Swaziland

Selected collections

World Bank, General D. C, USA Brooklyn School of Music,
New Dynasty, USA
United States Consulate, Abuja, Nigeria
Eko Bed and Suites, Lagos, Nigeria Halls Winery, California, USA Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA Fondation Blachère, Apt, France Indianapolis Art Sentiment, Indianapolis, USA
Royal Warehouse, Abu Dhabi, UAE Art Home Contemporary,
Lagos, Nigeria Trench 4, London, UK Renaissance Seat of government, Moscow, Russia
Sina Jina Collection, London, UK