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Nnenna Okore

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Nnenna Okore (PhD) is a Professor at Chicago’s North Park University. Straddling art, research, and teaching, Okore engages ecological problems through her arts-based participatory practice. As an internationally acclaimed artist, Okore has been involved in numerous environmental art projects and exhibitions designed to produce research, dialogue, and artmaking about current waste issues. Largely deriving inspiration from her natural surroundings, Okore creates delicate works of art using biodegradable materials like bioplastics, cheesecloth, and fibers to engender awareness about sustainable practices in the art field. Nnenna Okore has a B.A. from the University of Nigeria, an MA and MFA from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. from Monash University. Added to numerous national and international awards, Okore is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award and Creative Victoria Creators Fund. Her works and public art have been featured in major venues, such as the Museum of Art and Design, NY; Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Museu Afro Brasil, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Bruges Triennial, the Chengdu International Biennial, Moody Center of Art, Bradbury Art Museum, and more recently at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.

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Exhibitions: Unbridled Encounters, Walford Galleries, Wheaton College, IL, USA.Nov 03–Dec 08, 2023; Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. Sept 08–Dec 16, 2023; ‘Spirit Dance’, University of Iowa Stanley Museum, USA, 2023-2024; ‘To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions in Jorge M. Pérez Collection’, Miami, USA; ‘Earth Matters, Drake Gardens, Albany Park, Chicago, USA, 2023-2024; Biennial of Textile Art BIEN 2023, Kranj. Škofja Loka, Jesenice and Nova, Slovenia.April-August, 2023; ‘Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today’, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, USA. January 13 to May 13, 2023; ‘Fragments & Fabrications’, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, USA, Apr 13-May 31, 2023; ‘To Build What We Become When We Dream’, Queens Square Gallery (at Cambridge Art Galleries), Ontario, Canada, Feb 27-May 25, 2023.

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