Nigerian-American artist and professor Nnenna Okore (*1975 Canberra, AUS/ today Chicago) continues to shape global conversations in contemporary art. She completed the major installation “Between Earth and Sky” at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, 2025. Her monumental glass work, “Together We Belong, Here” (Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt, Munich) was unveiled by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, USA. An large-scale glass installation in Baltimore, USA, will be unveiled later this year.
Okore is a recipient of the 2012 Fulbright Scholar Award and Creative Victoria Award from Australia. Her works have been featured in major exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design, NY; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art, New York; Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta; Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Bruges Triennial, the Chengdu International Biennial, the Public Art Abu Dhabi (PAAD) Biennial, among others.