welcome to my web site - osiaudu.comFor over a decade now, through highly acclaimed exhibitions of my drawings and sculpture, I have maintained a strong professional presence in the United States, Great Britain, Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, Austria and Africa. My drawings have been exhibited at, and collected by public Institutions including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, The British Museum and the Horniman Museum both in London, and the Wellcome Trust Gallery in Euston London. My work has also been exhibited at the Tobu Museum and Setagaya Museum both in Japan, the Liverpool Museum in Great Britain, The Science Museum London; and acquired for corporate collections including Sony Classical New York, and the Schmidt Bank in Germany. My drawings were also included in the Kwangju Biennale in Korea, where I created an installation of 4 large-scale wall drawings based on the theme of the head. I have been invited to, and given public lectures on my work at international conferences at the British Museum (Human Image Conference), The Science Museum London, The Liverpool Museum, UK, The University of London, (SOAS), The University of Bristol, UK, and at Columbia University in New York (Conversations with a Continent: 8 African Artists) organized by the Museum for African Art, New York. As a result of my participation in the HEAD ON exhibition at the Science Museum, London, and a subsequent lecture, I was invited to contribute an article on Yoruba Concept Of The Mind in Richard Gregory’s latest edition of The Oxford Companion To The Mind. The article demonstrates some of the conceptual sources of inspiration for my work. I received a B.A. (Fine Art) degree with First Class Honors from the University of Ife in Nigeria, and an M.F.A. degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. I now live and work in New York. |
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