Sunday Jack Akpan (born Ikot Ide Etukudo, 1940) is a Nigerian sculptor who has been described as "the contemporary African equivalent of the medieval artisan".
[7] Sunday Jack Akpan was taught layering brick, by Mr. Albert Edet Essien.
This experience helped guide him to progress in his cement skills in sculpting his naturalistic large-scale figures.
1986[8] In this art piece by Sunday Jack Akpan, the artist is sculpting a Nigerian Chief, or considered a Tribal Leader.
The artwork has a Nigerian man with a red shirt, dark-colored hair, and a slight smile on his face.
1986[10] The art piece, "African Family", by Sunday Jack Akpan, was created in 1986 with the medium being cement.
The artist intended this artwork to be superior in originality, to maintain African culture, but still have the modernization factor within it.
The one important element in this sculptural piece is that all the men are facing forward, which also seems to be a high-end social setting.
His first official exhibition was in 1989 in Paris at “Magiciens De La Terre at Centre Pompidou Musée National d´Art Moderne”.
Japan's most well-known show was, [13] "La Biennale di Venezia" in Venice, Italy which took place in 2001.
Venice Biennale in 2001 "Plateau of Humankind", was a famous exhibition for Sunday Jack Akpan due to the prime of his artistry being in 2001.
[15] “Africa Remix” was another exhibition he debuted in various locations, Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (2004), Hayward Gallery in London (2005), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2005), Moderna Museet in Sweden (2006), Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2006).