Nkiruka Oparah
Born in California in 1986, lives in Oakland, CA.
Nkiruka is a first generation Nigerian artist, curator and writer based in Oakland, CA. Employing hand sewing, collage, experimental video, and assemblage, Oparah builds multimedia portraits from found objects, familial and personal images, and repurposed materials to investigate cosmological beliefs, Nigerian cultural memory, and Black identity. She is also a founding member of 5/5 Collective. 5/5 is dedicated to exploring Black(ness) as an idea, consciousness, reference, and embodied experience through space, language, and visual culture.
Nkiruka received a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Georgia in 2008 and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as Land and Sea Gallery, Oakland, CA, Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA and California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
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