Emalohi Iruobe is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and community organizer; whose practice investigates the ideological perspectives of African women. Her art  manifests itself  through a community engaged-practice, sculpture, performance, installation and assemblage; inspired by and constructed from her late mothers personal belongings  and other found items in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. She combines objects already imbued with cultural and historical metaphor into narrative sculpture-scapes to give radical visibility to the obscured stories, contributions and humanity of women. She is the founder of Tribe XX Lab, the first co-working, creative and community space for women in Nigeria. 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.

Emalohi has committed her life to the service and affirmation of Black people and their indigenous belief systems. From Africa to Europe to America, her curatorial, audio-visual and community building practices have motivated critical discourse, healing and prosperity for the communities she has built. Her process and practice proves that pedagogies of restorative practices and communal respect, indigenous and ancestral veneration and collective growth is the antidote to postcolonial stress.

Through engagement with research, archives and oral histories her work examines the way historical experience is transmitted intergenerationally, rearticulating histories of individual and collective migration, and its impact on identity. Her works have been shown at Yinka Shonibare Foundation, Nigeria, King's College, London, Temple University, USA, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA and the 2024 Lagos Biennial.

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.