1992-Present
Works in the Collection
Biography
Luke Agada (b.1992, Lagos, Nigeria) received his MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2023) and a DVM at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (2018). He has had recent national and international exhibitions with Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2024); African American Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (2024) moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2023); Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2023); African Artist’s Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria (2021); and Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana.
Agada has been a recipient of various awards and fellowships including Newcity’s Breakout Artist (2024); Studios at MASS MoCA Fellowship (2023); The James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award (2023); Janet and Russell Doubleday Award at The Art Students League of New York (2022); The Helen Frankenthaler Award at SAIC in (2022); George and Ann Siegel Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2021); Teaching Fellowship at SAIC (2023). He was an Artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA in 2023. Agada currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.