Emalohi Iruobe is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and community organizer whose practice examines the ideological perspectives of African women. Trained as a lawyer, her artistic work manifests through a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, film, installation, and assemblage. A central element of her work is the use of cloth, sourced from her late mother's personal wardrobe and belongings, as a medium to illuminate the often-unseen labor, obscured narratives, contributions, and humanity of African women. Her art serves as a tribute to her late mother, as well as a celebration of contemporary women, fostering a dialogue across generations.

Emalohi's work explores themes of family, history, ancestral veneration, and indigenous knowledge. Her process involves engaging with a personal archive of textiles known in Nigeria as "aso-ebi" collected by her mother between 1980 and 2013, while simultaneously building a new archive through participatory interventions that generate exercises geared at cultivating memorials, meditations and systems for recording personal history as a guide for future African generations.

As the founder of Tribe XX Lab, Nigeria's first co-working, creative, and community space for women, Emalohi demonstrates a commitment to supporting and empowering women in her community. The work and reach of Tribe XX Lab is the subject of the research project- “Understanding and Supporting Creative Economies in Africa: Education, Networks And Policy” funded by the Art and Humanities Research Council, UK (AHRC) and carried out by researchers from Kings College London, UK. It was published in 2020. A follow up documentary on Tribe XX Lab and its place within the creative economy of female entrepreneurs in Lagos Nigeria was released in 2024.

Her work has been exhibited at the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Nigeria), King's College London (UK), Temple University (USA), the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), the 2024 Lagos Biennial (Nigeria), Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (Germany) and Cité Des Art, Paris (France). She has participated in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA, Cite Des Art, Paris, France and Schloss Balmoral, Germany.

Emalohi has a Juris Doctor from Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law, Pennsylvania, USA and a BSC in Finance and Banking from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, USA.  She was awarded the Dorothy Day Award for Public Service from Villanova University. She was awarded Equal Justice Fellowships in 2008 and 2009, a Martin Luther King Fellowship in 2009 and  was a 2022 Echoing Green Fellowship Finalist for her project- Represent Black Girls, for which she won the 2022 Barclays Bank Social Innovation challenge.