ruby Onyinyechi Amanze

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze[a] (born 1982), is a Nigerian-born British-American artist noted for drawings and works on paper which focus on cultural hybridity or "post-colonial non-nationalism.

degree summa cum laude from the Tyler School of Art at Philadelphia's Temple University in 2004.

[9] Only in college did she depart from drawing as her primary medium, instead majoring in the art of photography and textiles.

[4] Influenced by textile design, photography, print-making and architecture,[10] her work conveys cultural displacement, anxiety, and identity, inspired by her “pieced-together memories” of Nigeria.

[11] These works explore a sense of displacement and existence between places, evoking feelings of homesickness and longing.