Emmanuel Okoro

Emmanuel Okoro is a British-Nigerian sculptor working in bronze. His figures are elongated, stripped to essential gesture, and always rising. The work belongs to the African modernist tradition, where the extended vertical form carries dignity and lineage rather than erosion. Behind it stand the Nok terracottas, the Ife heads and the bronze traditions of Benin, and closer still Ben Enwonwu, whose figures ascend rather than recede.
Okoro pares down to reveal the essence of a state of being, of oneness and relationship, or of a moment, whether dancing, expectant or restful. His subjects are return, continuity and the weight one generation hands to the next.
His practice is built on mould-families: sculptures cast from shared origins, related the way generations within a family are. Heritage is built into the method, not applied from outside.
Born in Nigeria in 1972, Okoro lives and works in Bedfordshire. He graduated in Fine Art Sculpture from the University of the Arts London.

University of the Arts London Wimbledon

Kingsway College, Kentish Town

2025 — STOP AND FOCUS Monumental Bronze, 220cm cast bronze commission
2024 — BLACKSWAN, new bronze resin work, edition of 15
2024 — Cotswold Sculptors Association, Creating Spaces at Miserden
2018 — Flux Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art
2018 — Affordable Art Fair, Battersea and Hampstead — DegreeArts
2015 — Solo Exhibition, Go Figurative Gallery Hampstead and Tower 42 London
2013 — AAF Battersea, Hampstead, Vyner Street — DegreeArt
2013 — IMA Foundation Gallery London
2012 — National Museum Onikan Lagos
2012 — 5th International Art Expo Nigeria
2012 — AAF Hampstead, Vyner Street London — DegreeArt
2011 — Sheridan Russell Gallery — Olympic Commission, London Borough of Haringey
2010 — Sheridan Russell Gallery, Arc Gallery, DegreeArts
2009 — Sheridan Russell Gallery, Art in Action Waterperry Oxfordshire
2008 — Victoria Jones Gallery, Hang Up Gallery, Sheridan Russell Gallery, AAF Battersea
2007 — Morley Gallery Waterloo, AAF Battersea, Sheridan Russell Gallery
2006 — AAF Battersea, 198 Gallery Brixton, Kaleidoscope Gallery
2005 — AAF Battersea, Gallery 54 Shepherds Market, Hayward Gallery Africa Remix
2004 — AAF New York, Atkinson Gallery, AAF Battersea
2003 — Kingsgate Gallery, Quentington Sculpture Show, Borde Hill Sculpture Trai...