Selected solo exhibitions |
2024 |
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Landfeels, O’Connor Art Gallery (Dominican University), Chicago, IL, USA
Holding Space, The Bentway, The Betway Skate Trail, Toronto, Canada
Earth Matters, Drake Gardens Albany Park, Chicago, IL, USA
Chasing Butterflies in Harmattan, Sakhile&Me Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany |
2023 |
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Spirit Dance, Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, IA, USA |
2022 |
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In/Flux, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Macroscopic Organisms, AKAA art fair, Paris, France
Making Kin, Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL USA |
2022 |
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In/Flux, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Macroscopic Organisms, AKAA art fair, Paris, France
Making Kin, Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL USA |
2021 |
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Bioplastic: Thing Power, B27 Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
2020 |
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Solo Booth, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa with Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt |
2019 |
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Plasmorganisms, Chicago Public Library, Albany Park Branch, Chicago, IL, USA |
2018 |
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Embodiment, Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 |
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Ụkwa Ruo Oge Ya Ọ Daa, - There’s a time for everything, October Gallery, London, UK
Ùtútù, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, USA
Nnenna Okore: Osimili, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Anima, CSPS, Legion Art Galleries, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA |
2016 |
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Rotunda Projects: Nnenna Okore, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, USA
When all is said and done, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, USA |
2015 |
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Nnenna Okore: Owu, Arrowhead Gallery, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL,USA
Nkata: An Installation by Nnenna Okore, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, USA
On the Brink: New Work by Nnenna Okore, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, USA |
2014 |
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Twist and Turns, David Krut Projects, New York, USA
Nnenna Okore: Fiber of Being and African Textiles, Welch School of Art and Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Unfound, Beard Art Center Gallery, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, USA
“Will you walk to the end of the earth with me”, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA |
2013 |
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Akaraka: What Will Be, Art Twenty One, Lagos, Nigeria |
2012 |
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Nnenna Okore: Transfiguration, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, USA |
2011 |
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Nnenna Okore: New Works, Herron School of Art and Design Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA;
Shokoloko, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, USA
Metamorphoses, October Gallery, London, UK
Torn Apart, David Krut Projects, New York, USA
Nnenna Okore: On the Edge, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Rush, Skidmore College Gallery, New York, USA |
2010 |
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Life After, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, USA
Recovered Energies, Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Absurd Beauty, Northeastern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
2009 |
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Strings and Patterns, Viberto University Gallery, La Crosse, WI, USA
Anyanwu, Carl A. Fields Center for Equality Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Twisted Ambience, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Common Thread, Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Of Earth…Bark and Topography, Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria |
2008 |
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Ulukububa - Infinite Flow, October Gallery, London, UK
Moonlight Tales, Tall Grass Association, Park Forest, IL, USA
Affrika West, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK |
2007 |
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Reflection, Contemporary African Art Gallery, New York, US
Sub-consciousness, Adam Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, USA |
2006 |
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Trans-figuration, Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL, USA
Betwixt and Between, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA |
2005 |
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Paper to Paper, Armature Art Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA |
2004 |
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Accumulations, Arts Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
2003 |
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Re-presented, Armature Gallery, University of Iowa, IA, USA . |
2002 |
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Beyond the Lines, Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria. |
2001 |
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Metaphors, Alternative space, Lagos, Nigeria, Curator: Bisi Silver, London. |
Selected group exhibitions |
2025 |
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Material Sensibilities, October Gallery, London, UK
Public Matters, Public Art Abu DHabi (PAAD), Abu DHabi, UAE |
2024 |
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Climates and Carpets, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Perez Collection, 23, Miami, FL, USA
I am all the loves I have ever known, Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany
Voices from Abroad, Behncke Gallery, Munich, Germany
Part of Art Basel Miami Beach Art Fair, Jenkins Johnson, Miami, FL, USA
Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory and Belonging, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Right Is Right, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2023 |
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Unbridled Encounters, Walford Galleries, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, USA
Intimations, Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany
Tapestry of Voices: The Poetic Dialogue Project, Christopher Art Gallery, Prairie State College, Chicago, IL, USA
Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Fragments & Fabrications, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA
To Build What We Become When We Dream, Queens Square Gallery, Cambridge Art Galleries, Ontario, Canada |
2022 |
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HerStory: Shaping History, Rele Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Poetics of Material, Rele Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
2021 |
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Trauma, Triennale Brugge, Brugge, Belgium
Ecological Co-Development, Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
Columned Hall Exhibition, Stoa169, Polling, Germany
The Invincible Hands, Yemi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos, Nigeria
Natural Materials, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Podium II, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2020 |
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Atmospheres; Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK Prête-Moi Ton Rêve, Musée des Civilizations Noires, Dakar, Senegal 31: Women, Daimler Museum, Berlin, Germany
Second Careers: Tributaries in African Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA |
2019 |
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Dream No Small Dream: Celebrating 40 Years of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Fuel for Thought, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Dream No Small Dream: Celebrating 40 Years of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK Fuel for Thought, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Art + Identity, Browngrotta Art Gallery, Wilton, CT, USA
Transformed: Paper in Dimension, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, USA |
2018 |
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Dream No Small Dream: Celebrating 40 Years of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; N‘Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA |
2017 |
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Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA
Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
The Enlighteners, Fondation Blachère Collection, Palais des Papes; Musée du Petit Palais; Musée Calvet and Musée Lapidaire, Avignon, France
Beyond Surface, Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
When the Heavens Meet the Earth, The Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Weather or Not, That is the Question, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, USA |
2016 |
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La Mère | La Mer, Moreau Art Galleries, St Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Standing Out, Temple Muse, Lagos, Nigeria Summertime…, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE, with Sakshi Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, with Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Finding Shelter: An Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art, Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA
artMRKT San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2015 |
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Exceptional: Handmade Paper Beyond Substrate, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Works from Around Our State, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, USA
Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Faculty Art Show, Brendel Library, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA |
2014 |
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Interwoven Histories, October Gallery, London, UK
Brides of Anansi: Fiber and Contemporary Art, Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
African Origins, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Faculty Art Show, Brandel Library, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA |
2013 |
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Six Draughtsmen, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), New York, USA
Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf, Quebec, Canada
no one belongs here more than you, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
Textura, Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2012 |
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Inside-Out, Outside-In, Visual Art Center Gallery, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA
We Face Forward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
(Re-) Cycles of Paradise, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
2011 |
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Transcending Integration, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, USA
Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, New York; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA |
2010 |
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As It Is: Contemporary Art from Africa & the Diaspora, The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Textiles, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Scratch, Latit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE, with October Gallery, London, UK
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa, with October Gallery, London, UK
(Re-) Cycles of Paradise, UNCOP16, UN Climate Change Conference, Spanish Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
2009 |
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(Re-) Cycles of Paradise, UNCOP15, DGI-byen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Common Ground, Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
In Progress, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE, with October Gallery, London, UK
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa, with October Gallery, London, UK
Trash Menagerie, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Paper to Pulp, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD, USA
Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
Chance Encounters, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Objects of A Revolution, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
Trace/Memory, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, USA |
2008 |
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Angaza Africa, October Gallery, London, UK
Affrika West, Artspace, Galeri Caernarfon, Caernafon, Wales, UK
Channel4 Art Exhibition, Channel4/ Art4 Gallery, London, UK
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA
Refabrication, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA
Clay and Fiber, Woman Made Gallery (WMG), Chicago, USA Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa, with October Gallery, London, UK
Trading Spaces, Binghamton University, New York, USA
Moonlight Tales, Tall Grass Arts Association, Park Forest, IL, USA |
2006 |
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African Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dak’Art - Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal |
2005 |
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Twelfth SOFA International Exposition, The Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA
Faculty Show, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA
8th International Open Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery (WMG), Chicago, IL, USA |
2003 |
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Migrations, Legion Arts, CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Units, Legion Arts, CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA |
2002 |
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New Works, Armature Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
2001 |
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New Energies, Nimbus Gallery; Mydrim Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria |
1999 |
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B.A. Exhibition, Ana Gallery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |