I'm Chinenye (Chinny) Okonta — muralist, painter, and art educator. Public art, gallery originals, and art therapy workshops grounded in resilience, diversity, identity, and healing.
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"I believe public art should leave people with a feeling welcomed, inspired, curious, hopeful, connected."
Nigerian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist working across large-scale murals, gallery paintings, and immersive community exhibitions. Masters in Fine & Applied Arts. Art educator and art therapy facilitator with Autism PEI. I create work about resilience, diversity, identity, healing, hope, memory, and human connection.
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Large-scale, site-responsive murals for public and private walls from concept sketch to final unveiling. Every piece is designed around the architecture, light, and story of its location, not dropped in generically.
Gallery-quality originals in acrylic, oil, and mixed media colour-led, emotionally charged pieces available as-is or as studio commissions built to your space, palette, or story.
Workshops for schools, community groups, and corporate teams that use art-making as a tool for learning and healing built on 18+ years of classroom and inclusive-practice experience, including partnership work with Autism PEI.
I am Chinenye Okonta @rt Chinny World. For over eighteen years I've taught creative arts, led a Creative Department, and painted walls that a city walks past every day. I hold a Masters in Fine and Applied Arts, and today I work from Prince Edward Island, in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People.
My practice moves between large-scale murals (including a 96ft x 8ft executed mural, and a wraparound proposal for the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre), gallery paintings, immersive public exhibitions such as my 2024 gender-based-violence exhibition with Innovation PEI and art therapy / art education with children and special-needs learners, including volunteer work with Autism PEI.
Themes I return to: resilience, diversity, identity, healing, hope, memory, human connection. I believe public art should make people feel welcomed, inspired, curious, hopeful, connected long after they leave the room.
Through collaborative projects and community-centered practice, I create spaces where art becomes a vehicle for storytelling, healing, and meaningful human connection across cultures and generations.
Art is never created in isolation. Whether working with educators, students, or community members, I believe the most powerful artwork emerges from genuine collaboration and shared vision. In this moment, we celebrate the intersection of artistic practice and educational impact.
These collaborative sessions represent what I do best: creating spaces where creativity becomes a language of connection, where people of different backgrounds come together to imagine, create, and heal together.
Mural commissions, gallery sales, workshops, public art proposals, collaborations. I reply within 48 hours, PEI time.
Public art, gallery originals, and healing workshops — Nigerian-Canadian, PEI-based.
