Past Resident
2022: Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries
2021: Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries
2020: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and reflecting on global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical content, various themes; including family, love, loss, humour, mythology, and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Braunschweig; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf, among others. In 2019, Adjani was the recipient of the inaugural Ritzau Art Prize via ISCP, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and the Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philantropy.
Events & Exhibitions
'Bursting Bubbles' Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm
‘Bursting Bubbles’ Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm
On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa
September 17, 2021–February 25, 2022
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Fabricated Anthropology, 2018, mixed media on four door panels (quadriptych).
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Young Choreographers, 2019, mixed media on found wooden board.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Bearing Witness to Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism and Rumours of Civil War, 2020, wooden door panels, bookshelves, books, and variable objects.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, The Foundation and Etymological Reinforcement of Erasure, 2020, variable.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Takumbeng’s Creed, Ambazonian Fortress, 2018, mixed on door panels (diptych).
