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COMING
EXHIBITION
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Birth:
August 30, 1957.
Training:
Yinka Adeyemi Art Studio
1972 - 74
Oguntimehin Art workshop, Ile-Ife 1974 - 75
Media:
Yarn Painting /
Sand Painting / Linoleum Block
Print on Fabric / Batik on rice-paper
/
Oil Painting / Graphics.
Profile:
Executive
Director VSA arts of Nigeria
2001
Director Timbrel Arts Company,
Ibadan
Program Coordinator Very Special Arts
Nigeria,
1993 – 97
Artistic
coordinator, Toki Arts Center Ibadan,
1989 – 91
Solo
Exhibitions:
''Expression"
Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont, MA. Oct. 2005
"Nigeria
my home land" Mariposa Museum, Peterborough Feb. 2005
“Celebrating
the World Culture” Mariposa
Museum,
Peterborough,
NH.
2002
“Images of Yoruba People” NEWMAH Gallery,
Bellows
Falls,
VT.
2001
African
Art” Langer
Place,
Manchester,
NH.
1999
.
1999
“Exploration”
Telfer’s African
Gallery,
Ghana.
1996
“Breeze” French Cultural Center, Lagos.
1994
“One Show’ Shiloh Baptist
church, Washington
DC.
1992
“The Culture”.
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture,
Ibadan.
“Many
Suitors”, I. I. T. A. Ibadan 1989.
“Art and the locality” University
of Ilorin
1981
”Coming
Out”, University
of Ilorin
Staff Club 1980.

Commissions:
"Sand
panting" Mr. & Mrs. Vincent, Windham NH. 2003
“Butterfly”
(Mosaic Tiles) Mariposa Museum 2002.
“Yarn Painting” Mr. Ruthwell,
FERODO, Ibadan.
1991
“Mosaic”
Lagos
Hilton Hotel, Ikeja.
1987.
Adire Tie-Dye Blinds” University
of Ilorin
Guest House. 1986.
“Unification” Vice-Chancellor’s Lodge, University of
Ilorin
(Oil on paper) 1980

Group
Exhibition:
"Alfa 2006" Minor by Design
Studio, Keene, NH. Feb. 2006
"The
Biennial Juried Exhibition" Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery,
Keene NH. Jan. 22nd - March 6th, 2005
“The Way Forward”
NAFANA, Abuja,
2003
“Popularizing Art within the Community” Alliance
Francaise, Ibadan.
2001.
“Out of
Africa”
Thorn –
Sagendorph
Art
Gallery,
Keene
State College,
Keene,
NH.
2000.
“The Artist and Nation Building”
NAFANA, Ibadan,
1999.
“ Hidden
Treasure” Alliance
Francaise, Kaduna.
1996.
“Third Annual
International Arts Exhibition” Very Special Arts,
Washington
DC.“
International Very Special
Arts Festival” Brussels,
Belgium.
1994.
“Art for Art
Sake” Sinsemillia Gallery,
Lagos.“
Oriki”
Giornata Mondiale
Dell’aumentazione F.A.O.,
Rome
1989
“Artist of Africa”
CUSO,
Canada.
1989.
“Nigerian Art
and French Revolution” French – German Auditorium,
Lagos.
1989
“Exhibition for Selection” Alliance
Francaise, Ibadan.
1989.
“Young Print Makers” USIS,
Lagos.
1988
“UHURU” African American Arts Against
Apartheid (Newark,
NJ.)
City Without Walls 1988
“ African
Studies Day” I.A.S. University
of Ife,
Ile-Ife. 1988.
“Young Shells” I.I.T.A. Ibadan.
1987.
“Culture” Alliance
Francaise, Ibadan.
1986

Awards
and Honors:
Disabled Persons
Oyo State ,
Nigeria.
2001.
Bronze Medal,”Gloriana Midaiale
Dell-aumentazione FAO,
Rome.
1989
First
Prize Winner “Exhibition for selection” Alliance Fancaise,
Ibadan.
1989.

Bibliography:
Popularizing Art within the Community, (Exhibition) 2001
Illustration page 8.
Who is Who in African Art. Smithsonian
Institute, Washington DC.
1993, index # 240, pages 345 – 346
Giornata Mondiale Dell’aumentazione
(Exhibition) F.A.O., Rome
1989
Black
Business Owners Magazine, Alabama,
Eighth – Edition (Back Cover) Illustration page 2, 1988
UHURU:
African and American Arts Against Apartheid
Newark,
NJ.
1988, 12pp.
Young
printmakers Lagos.
1988 8pp
Newspaper Publications:
NH. State & Local Sunday News, May
15th 2005, pg. B1 & B8
The Hooksett Banner, May 5th 2005, pg. A1
Monadnock Ledger, Feb.17th 2005, pg. 23
The Courier, Jan. 26th 2005, front pg & 8.
Hudson – Litchfield News,
June 7th, 2002
pg. 11.
Spotlight, The Keene Sentinel,
July 19th, 2001
pg 13 & 22.
Rutland
Daily Herald S.
VT.
April
2nd, 2001
pg B1
Monadnock July 19th, 2001
pg 17 & 28.
Monadnock
May 25th, 2000
pg 8.
Feb. 16th – 27th,
2000, pg
1.
Monadnock
Jan. 27th, 2000
front page.
Nigerian Tribune,
Nov. 17th, 1999,
pg 17
The Point, Jan. –
Feb.
5th, 1990,
pg. 6
Dec. 29th, 1989
pg. 4.

Artist
in residence:
Winship
Elementary School, Brighton, MA. April 2007
O'Hearn School, Dorchester, MA. Feb. 2007
NH. Institute of Art,
Manchester, June 2005
Iber H. Gove
Middle School, Raymond, NH, May, 2005
Lamprey River Elementary School, Raymond, NH May, 2005
Henry W. Moore School, Candia, NH. May.2005
Saxton
River Elementary School, VT. Feb. 2005
Meadowbrook School, West Greenwich, RI. Oct. 2004
Orchard
School,
NH, Griffin
Memorial
School,
Litchfield,
NH.
Mariposa
Museum,
Peterborough,
NH.
East Derry
Memorial Elementary school,
NH.
-
March 2003.
Brentwood
School ,
Merrimack,
NH.
Bellows Falls
VT.
-
May 2001
Spaulding Youth Center,
NH.
-
Jan. 1999 and May 2001
Thorne
Sagendorph
Art
Gallery,
KSC. Plymouth
State College
, NH.
-
July 2000
Contact:
130 West Clarke
Street, Apt. # 9,
Manchester, NH. 03104
Phone: 603 499 2010
E-mail:
segunfemi@comcast.net
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