Practising consistently since 2002, and inspired by people (living, human actions) and the everyday, Amarachi Okafor’s Sculptures, Paintings, and Art Events speak about a troubled, happy, and responsible society, as she explores and transforms used commonplace material alongside traditional ones.

 Amarachi’s artistic training rewarded her with the following degrees in art: BA (Painting), 2002; MFA (Sculpture), 2006 (both from the University of Nigeria Nsukka); and MA in Curatorial Practice, 2012 from Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, UK. She has exhibited work and practiced; had and shared studio spaces worldwide – Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Caribbean Islands, and the Middle East.

 She was a recipient of the Unesco Aschberg artists’ award in 2007- leading to a residency at Lademoen Kustnerverksteder [LKV] in Trondheim Norway; Commonwealth Foundation Commonwealth Connections recipient in 2009 which supported her travels for research projects and a collaborative exhibition in Nassau - Bahamas. Other residencies are – Nkd, Norway, Popopstudios, Nassau, the Bahamas.

In 2014, she was awarded the National Art Competition (Nigeria) jury prize. She has exhibited at Babel Art Space, Norway, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, Manchester Art Gallery, UK, Jogjarkarta Biennial, Indonesia. She produces socially engaged participatory public art projects with audiences in galleries and alternative art spaces, a unique endeavour she refers to as relational public art. Her work is based much on learning, participation [audience engagement]; experimentation, and transformation.

 At home in Nigeria, she works from the research and production space that she initiated in Abuja; hence, her unique art practice is international and very much rooted in the local.

 In her research interests, she worked in the curatorial department of the National Gallery of Art, Nigeria, as a curatorial assistant and rose to Senior Curator, through 2008-2015.

She has supported many major exhibitions of works by other renowned artists at Museums and Biennials around the world. She was the Africa Commissioner for the Gangwon Triennial in 2021. She was twice the Curator of the Nigeria national annual youth art festival LIMCAF, in 2023 and 2024. She is also very involved in art documentation and archiving – specifically of work by established African Artists who practice on the continent.

Her art-making therefore can take on an exciting curatorial angle involving research and co-ordination as she explores design, architecture, and the history of things.