Nnamdi Okonkwo

NNAMDI OKONKWO was born in Nigeria in 1965 and has always been drawn to art. He was recruited by BYU–Hawaii to play basketball. There, he found an opportunity to nourish all his talents and graduated with a BFA in sculpture. He received his MFA in sculpture from BYU–Provo in 1997. Okonkwo’s sculptures of women are rotund forms that symbolize the abundance of life, an outward manifestation of a largeness of soul. The souls are full of gesture, even in their seeming stillness. www.nnamdiart.com