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Segun Olorunfemi

Media / Profile / Solo Exhibitions / Commission / Group show / Awards  Bibliography / Publications ResidencesContact.


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.OrikiGiornata 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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