HESCAH: Art, Nationalism and Power: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian Modernists in Revolutionary Egypt
Schedule
Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
400 SW 13th St, Gainesville, FL 32601-63ND, United States | Gainesville, FL
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Join us for a HESCAH lecture by Chika Okeke-Agulu, Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies at Princeton University.Location: FAB (room TBD)
"Art, Nationalism and Power: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian Modernists in Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Egypt"
Chika Okeke‑Agulu is a Nigerian-born artist, critic, and art historian based at Princeton University, where he holds professorships in African and African Diaspora Art and serves as Director of the Program in African Studies and Africa World Initiative Department of Art and Archaeology. He earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Nigeria and a Ph.D. in Art History from Emory University, and has taught at institutions including Penn State, Williams College, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Okeke‑Agulu is the author of influential books such as Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth‑Century Nigeria (2015), Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life. (2020), and El Anatsui. The Reinvention of Sculpture (2022). A leading curator and critic, he co-organized exhibitions including El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, 2019) and Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts (Princeton, 2022), and co-edits Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. His research and writing explore themes of modernism, decolonization, and diasporic artistic practices.
Image credit: Gazbia Sirry, Grief, 1967. Oil on canvas. © Gazbia Sirry
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