Jems Robert Koko Bi is an Ivorian sculptor. He was born in 1966, in Sifra, Côte d’Ivoire. He studied Spanish History between 1986 and 1988 in University of Abidjan. Between 1988 and 1995 he studied at Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle (INSAAC) in Abidjan. In 1997 he won the DAAD scholarship and moved to Germany where he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Klaus Rinke.