ruby onyinyechi amanze is a Nigerian born artist whose formative years were spent in Britain. Her practice, which comprises drawings, works on paper, textile design, photography, and printmaking, is a testament to her understanding of cultural hybridity, belonging, and displacement.

She completed her BA (Summa Cum Laude) at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, in 2004 and her M.F.A at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, USA, in 2006. amanze was awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholarship, whereby she joined the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Nigeria. amanze has been included in numerous exhibitions in Ghana, Nigeria, the US, the UK, and the Netherlands. Recent group presentations include no one belongs here more than you at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Lagos, in Nigeria in 2013; and Six Draughtsmen at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn in 2013–2014. More recently, her solo exhibition a story. in parts. was presented at Tiwani Contemporary in London, UK, in 2015.