Born in Kumba, Cameroon in 1979, lives and work in London, UK. As a socially engaged art practitioner, Cameroonian-British artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe believes that artists have an inherent social contract entailing them to dedicate aspects of their work towards shedding light on issues affecting their immediate and wider communities, while celebrating initiatives that positively impact them. Thus, social commentary and themes referencing African American, African, and African diasporic histories, philosophies, iconographies, anthropologies, music, mythologies, and everyday life are recurrent in his work.

Working across disciplines, Okpu-Egbe combines research-driven processes with instinctive responses, merging personal experience with symbolic and expansive material experimentation. Recurring elements in his layered visual language—door panels as metaphors, shelves as archives, autobiographical lemon bearing vines, philosophical bubble wrap, and hybrid figures or fantastical beasts he calls “manimals”—form immersive installations that expand contemporary cultural discourse. In 2025, three major works, An Allegorical Conglomeration of Origins and Inevitabilities, Fortitude and The Premonition of Ngarbuh were presented at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo.

He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, London, and is the inaugural recipient of the Ritzau Art Prize. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, Tate Modern, London, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo.