Chika Okeke-Agulu

In spring 2020 he was appointed the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

In 2022 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University (2022-2023), and is a Fellow of The British Academy.

He is editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, published by Duke University Press.

[citation needed] In 2004 he co-organized the 5th Gwangju Biennale and Strange Planet at the Georgia State University Art Gallery.

[10] In 2019, he co-organized (with Okwui Enwezor), El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale at Haus der Kunst, Munich, MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and Kunstmuseum Bern.

His work is in the collections of the Newark Museum; Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth; and the National Council for Arts and Culture, Lagos.

In 2020, Okeke-Agulu called on auction house Christie's to cancel its planned Paris sale of two Igbo sculptures, which were stolen during the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970).