Sculptor for Spring 2012: Jems Robert Koko Bi

Jems Robert Koko Bi was born in 1966, in Sinfra, Ivory Coast (the Côte d’Ivoire, is a coastal West African country bordered by Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea.) He studied Spanish History between 1986-1988 in University of Abidjan. Between 1988-1995 he studied at Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle (INSAAC) in Abidjan. In 1997 he won a scholarship and moved to Germany where he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has exhibited in Brussels, Germany, Canada, Senegal, Spain, France , Cote d-Ivoire. He does Performance as well as sculpture, and was awarded the 2000 Dakar Biennale award, and the Francophone Prize at the Dakar Biennale in 2008. He presently lives and works in Germany. He worked with our students to make a large head made from carved pieces of wood that relsembles Martin Luther King. Here is a video of our project: