Adjani Okpu-Egbe

Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a London-based Cameroonian-British contemporary art practitioner and scholar who believes that artists have an inherent social contract to dedicate aspects of their work towards shedding light on issues affecting their immediate and wider communities.

Thus, social commentary and references on African American, African and the entire African diasporic history, philosophy, iconography, anthropology, sociology, music, mythology and day-to-day life are recurrent in his practice. Deploying his work as a vehicle to channel socio-cultural engagement and change, Okpu-Egbe’s committed to contribute to the ever-so-urgent work for freedoms is unwavering and far reaching. His first solo show in the US, On Delegitimisation and Solidarity: Sisiku Ayuk-Tabe the Martin Luther King Junior of Ambazonia, the Nera 10 and the Myth of Violent Africa was listed amongst 10 best shows in New York City in 2021 by Hyperallergic.

Okpu-Egbe is the inaugural recipient of The Ritzau Art Prize at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and ISCP, New York. His work has been exhibited at Tate Modern London, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Kunstpalast Museum, Dusseldorf, Kunstverein Museum, Braunschweig, ISCP, New York, Tel Aviv Museum, among others. He holds a Masters in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, RCA, London.