Chinedu Okala

Chinedu Okala was born on June 9, 1965. He is a full Professor of Fine Arts. His work experience includes services as Dean, Associate Dean, Chair, and strategic planner.

Some of his work can be found at www.luluartist.com and several private collections. His Instagram handle is @GodsWillOnline.

Okala Studied with artist Skunder Alexander Boghossian, Jeff Donaldson, Keith Morrison, Al Smith, Frank Smith, Falaka Armide, and art historians Floyd Coleman, Tritobia Benjamin and David Driskell while at Howard University where he obtained the MFA in Painting and Drawing. Okala also briefly apprenticed and interned at the International Center in the Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institutions with Vera Hyatt. He had prior education in Nigeria, where he earned a Diploma of Institute of Management and Technology in Sculpture and the Higher Diploma of Institute of Management in Painting when He completed His undergraduate work at the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu, Nigeria from 1980-86.

As an avid Painter/Sculptor Professor Okala’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States and overseas. His work has been reviewed in the Washington Post, Richmond Times Dispatch, Virginian Pilot and the Ledger Star among other publications.  According to Richard Fulcher, reviewer for ARTSPEAK New York, Okala is a consummate artist whose paintings move easily between abstract and figurative styles. Most often he combines both in large canvasses that evoke mystical landscapes, peopled by many small figures that seem to march in step to the rhythms of human history….His particular gift is to evoke the specific and the universal in a single, bold stroke…..Okala is a mystic visionary…..in excitingly contemporary terms.

A combination of talent, scholarship and creativity, this painter/sculptor is currently engaged in works he refers as “Imagining the Divine. This marvelous skill is carried on in his website design analysis and corporate solutions…Simply put, Okala is one of the most desirable creative natives today.