Chika Okeke-Agulu is associate professor of African and African diaspora art in the Department of Art and Archaeology, and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. His books include Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009), Who Knows Tomorrow (2010), and Ezumeezu: Essays on Nigerian and Architecture, a Festschrift in Honour of Demas Nwoko (2012). His book, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in 20^th-Century Nigeria is forthcoming from Duke University Press. He is editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.

Chika Okeke-Agulu’s art historical research and curatorial projects are deeply invested in establishing and developing histories and critical analyses of modernism and comparative perspectives on the multiplex 20th-century phenomenon variously described as alternative, cosmopolitan, indigenous, multiple, and global modernism.  He is also interested in how earlier modernist work informs our understanding of contemporary art from Africa and African Diaspora. Following his recent studies focusing on postcolonial modernism in mid-twentieth-century Nigeria, and post-1980s contemporary African art, Okeke-Agulu is currently editing an anthology of writings by African artists since the 1920s, and writing a book about art in Nigeria during the 1980s/1990s military dictatorships.