Emeka Ilechukwu was the best graduating student as a sculptor from the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, in 1997. Born August 11th, 1975, at Nnewi in Anambra state, Nigeria, he continues to create sculptures, paintings, and drawings, which are informed largely by his inner visions and desires to solve creative problems. Through these modes of expression, he addresses numerous socio-cultural and environmental concerns that affect him and others.

He explores diverse media in expressing his eclectic creative ideas, which are drawn from critical observation of everyday, mundane things. His works are created to inspire hope and motivate courage. Emeka, as he likes to be called, dissects the opposing forces of life, such as light and darkness; good and evil; positives and negatives; he does this to tease out for his spectators’ concrete mental imagery to ponder on. In creating these visual statements, he is adding aesthetic value to the world, as he declares.

His artwork NZUKOR UMUNNA (Gathering of kinsmen) is on a permanent exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia. Additionally, he has had five solo exhibitions, fifty salons, and over twenty group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

A Senior Partner of Emeka Ilechukwu & Associates, his art outfit creates and exhibits artworks globally, and also conducts mentoring programs for art students and young aspiring artists.

He is married to Desola, his partner of over 22 years, and they are blessed with four wonderful kids.