# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olu-oguibe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:09:43.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olu-oguibe"
name: "Olu Oguibe"
slug: "olu-oguibe"
description: "Olu Oguibe is a Nigerian-born American artist and academic. Professor of Art and African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York City, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He is also an art historian, art curator, and leading contributor to post-colonial theory and new information technology studies. Oguibe is also known to be a well respected scholar and historian of contemporary African and African-American art and was honoured with the State of Connecticut Governor's Arts Award for excellence and lifetime achievement on 15 June 2013."
tagline: "American artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olu_Oguibe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.12
  momentum:             1.25
  historical:           8.807416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "اولو اوجويب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%83_%D0%9E%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B5"
    title: "Олу Огуибе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe"
    title: "Olu Oguibe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3881996"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump