Born London, UK
EDUCATION
Post-graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Advisor, The American Academy in Rome, Italy
Tutor/Guest Lecturer, The Rhode Island School of Design in Rome, Italy
Tutor/Guest Lecturer, Temple University Rome Campus, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2018 International Guest Artist Residency, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2017 Art Omi, Omi International Arts Centre, Ghent, NY, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Banana Trees, Baert Gallery, Expo Chicago, Illinois, USA
2019 Baert Gallery (with Simone Kennedy Doig), UNTITLED, Miami Beach, USA
2019 Jebila Okongwu, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2019 Baert Gallery, UNTITLED, San Francisco, USA
2018 Schengen (with Délio Jasse and Anna Raimondo), Villa Romana, curated by Justin Randolph Thompson and Janine Gaelle, Florence, Italy
2018 Manhattan Office, Art in Buildings, 125 Maiden Lane, curated by Jennie Lamensdorf, New York City, USA
2017 The Legitimacy of Brutality, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Patterns of Trade (with Ludovica Gioscia), Wunderkammer, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy
2013 River Crossing, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
2013 Nina & Stevie, MACRO Pelanda, Rome, Italy
2012 The Hawker (performance), Roma Contemporary 5, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
2012 The Other Art Fair, Ambika, London, UK
2012 Banana Republic, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia
2001 Synthetic Abstractions, Rialto Project Space, Rome, Italy
1999 Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu: Inedito, Futuro Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Maschera, Struttura, Rome, Italy
2022 Salon in Sabina, Demoni Danzanti, Torri in Sabina, Italy
2022 Black Future: Auriea Harvey and Jebila Okongwu, Temple University Rome Gallery of Art, Rome, Italy
2021 Summer Group Exhibition, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Friends and Friends of Friends, curated by Inga Kleinknecht, Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria
2019 Color Is an Act of Reason, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Liquid State & Unmasked, Axis Gallery, New York City, USA
2016 Toast, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2016 Qui e Altrove (performance), curated by Valentina Gioia Levy, Villa Ada, Rome, Italy
2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Axis Gallery, Somerset House, London, UK
2015 Nero Su Bianco, curated by Robert Storr, Lyle Ashton Harris and Peter Benson Miller, The American Academy in Rome, Italy
2014 The Go Between: A Selection of International Emerging Artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, curated by Eugenio Viola, Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
2013 Un Altro Natale, Casa della Letteratura, Rome, Italy
2012 African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora: Untold Gold, The Bargehouse, London, UK
2012 Savorr VIII, Samson and Hercules House, Norwich, UK
2011 Fabula in Art 2011, Museum San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome, Italy
2010 Passion is the difference, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy
2005 Five Painters, Critical Mass, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1999 Simbiosi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallese, Italy
1999 12 Artisti: Collettiva d’Arte Contemporanea, Extra, Rome, Italy
1999 Riot, Vernice Associazione Culturale, Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome, Italy
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2020 Friends and Friends of Friends, Exhibition catalogue, Distanz, Berlin, ISBN 9783954763825
2020 Neues Volksblatt, Innovative Exhibition in the middle of Covid-Trauma, Astrid Braun, 1st October, Linz, Austria
2020 Kronen Zeitung, Museum makes way for Andy Warhols of today, Jasmin Gaderer, 1st October, Vienna, Austria
2020 Graphite Interdisciplinary Arts Journal, Issue No. 11, Fruit, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2019 As Brilliant as the Sun, Camilla Boemio, Vanilla Edizioni, Savona,
ISBN 9788860574473
2019 Artillery Magazine, Review of the exhibition “Jebila Okongwu“ at Baert Gallery, Max King Kap, Los Angeles, 5th November, p.52
2019 Los Angeles Times, Banana Boxes, BDSM gear and the intended message of artist Jebila Okongwu, Sharon Mizota, 15th October
2019 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, Kurt Beers, Thames & Hudson, London, ISBN 0500021473, 9780500021477
2015 ArtReview, Black On White?, Mike Watson, vol.67, no. 6, September, p.51
2015 Nero su Bianco, Exhibition catalogue, Nero, Rome, ISBN 9788897503613
2014 The Go Between, A Selection of International Emerging Artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Exhibition catalogue, Cura Books, Rome, ISBN 9788897889229
2013 Corriere della Sera, Il Natale dell’arte giovane, Lauretta Colonnelli, 18th December, No. 299, p.17
2013 La Repubblica, Wolfe-Okongwu e Sahib opere d’arte cosmopolite, Linda de Sanctis, 23rd April
2012 Art Monthly Australia, Rome is Home but the World is Wider, Jan Jones, Issue 252 August, p. 48-50
2012 The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Hours The Arts Diary, 16th February, No. 54403, p.14
2011 Fabula in Art, Text Jonathan Turner, Il Cigno GG Edizioni, Roma, p.138-139, ISBN-9788878312654
2010 Nigerian Compass, Jebila: Home from Rome with art, Chuka Nnabuife, vol. 3, no. 802, 6th August, p.28-29
1999 ARTnews, Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, Review of Exhibition at Futuro Rome, Jonathan Turner, vol. 98, no.9, October, p.202
PROMINENT COLLECTIONS
Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
Collezione Ernesto Esposito, Naples, Italy
The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, USA