Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Rotimi Fani-Kayode (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli April biɛɣ'pishi dali yuuni 1955 ka daa kpi Silimiin goli December biɛɣ'pishi ni yini dali yuuni 1989), o dɔɣim yuli nyɛ Oluwarotimi Adebiyi Wahab Fani-Kayode,"Rotimi Fani-Kayode (In Memoriam)" , Autograph Newsletter, No. 9, December 1989/January 1990. daa nyɛ Nigerianima nuchee ni baŋda ka nyɛ ŋun daa be o daŋ sani England o yuun pin'yini saha. O daa nyɛla British contemporary art. 

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
Rotimi Fani-Kayode daa nyɛla bɛ dɔɣi so Lagos, Nigeria Silimiin goli April biɛɣ'pishi dali yuuni 1955.Rotimi Fani-Kayode - Nominee,  1955 - 1989. Note: Hirst's death is listed as 1994, albeit other sources cite 1992. The Legacy Project. O ba Chief Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode (1921-1995) daa nyɛla siyaasa nira ka daa lahi nyɛ Na'bia zaŋ n-ti Yoruba. O ma Chief (Mrs.) Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode (nee Sa'id) (1931-2001).Rotimi Fani-Kayode. The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Rotimi nyɛla ŋun mali mabihi anahi, Femi Fani-Kayode nyɛla o tizo ŋun nyɛ doo.Biography: Chief Femi Fani-Kayode

Fani-Kayode daŋ nyɛla ban daa labi Brighton, England, yuuni 1966 din daa niŋ ka sooja gɔmnanti deegi Nigeria.Race, Sexuality, Spirituality and the Self: The Photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode. Autograph. Rotimi nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ British private schools, di shɛŋa nyɛ Brighton College, Seabright College n-ti pahi Millfield ka daa labi United States yuuni 1976.

Rotimi daa deegi o BA degree in Fine Arts and Economics shikuru yuli booni Georgetown University yuuni 1980.Kelly, Julia (March 3, 2022). Georgetown University Art Galleries Feature New Exhibitions.
Georgetown University Art Galleries Feature New Exhibitions. Georgetown University. O daa nya o MFA degree in Fine Arts and Photography shikuru yuli booni Pratt Institute yuuni 1983.The People Make the Place. Pratt Institute. https://www.pratt.edu/prattfolio/stories/the-people-make-the-place/ Din daa niŋ ka o be Pratt, Rotimi daa leei  Robert Mapplethorpe.Conversation with the author 1988

Exhibitions
 No Comment, group show, Brixton Artists Collective, December 1984 
 Seeing Diversity, group show, Brixton Artists Collective, February 1985 
 Annual Members Show, group show, Brixton Artists Collective, November 1985
 South West Arts, group exhibition, Bristol, 1985
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Riverside Studios, London, 1986
Same Difference, group show, Camerawork, July 1986
 Oval House Theatre, group exhibition, London, 1987
The Invisible Man, group show, Goldsmith's Gallery, 1988
ÁBÍKU - Born to Die, one-person show, Centre 181 Gallery (Hammersmith), September/October 1988
US/UK Photography Exchange, touring group show, Camerawork & Jamaica Arts Centre, New York, 1989
Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology, Touring group exhibition, Curated by Sunil Gupta and Tessa Boffin, Impressions Gallery, York; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Battersea Arts Centre, London, 1990
 In/Sight, modern and contemporary African photography exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1996W. IAN BOURLAND ON THE LEGACY OF ROTIMI FANI-KAYODE. Duke University Press.
 African Pavilion, group exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2003
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Hutchins Center, Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009
 ARS 11, group exhibition, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2011
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Rivington Place, London, 2011
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2014
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Tiwani Contemporary, London, 2014
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Palitz Gallery, Lubin House, Syracuse University, New York, 2016Rotimi Fani-Kayode. March 3, 2016. The New Yorker.
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Hales Project Room, New York, 2018
 African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, FotoFest Biennial 2020,  Houston, TX, 2020Seymour, Tom (March 6, 2020). Resistance, subversion and identity at the heart of Fotofest's first African focus. The Art Newspaper.African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, FotoFest Biennial 2020. FotoFest.  
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 1955–1989, Iceberg Project, Chicago, IL, 2020Quiles, Daniel (February 2020).Rotimi Fani-Kayode Iceberg Projects. Artforum.
 Greater New York 2022, a group show of 47 artists and collectives, MoMA PS1, New York, 2022 
 One Nation Underground: Punk Visual Culture 1976-1985, Georgetown University, 2022
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Georgetown University, 2022
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion, "the first North American survey of Fani-Kayode’s work and archives," Wexner Center for the Arts, 2024-2025.Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion. Wexner Center for the Arts.Hopkins, Zoe (October 27, 2024). Two Lenses, One Language. New York Times. 
 The Studio – Staging Desire, Autograph Gallery, Shoreditch, London, 2024-2025.Rotimi Fani-Kayode Explores the Studio as a Safe Space. Hypebeast.

Kpibu
Fani-Kayode nyɛla ŋun daa kpi Coppetts Wood Hospital Silimiin goli December biɛɣ;pishi ni yini dali yuuni 1989.Bourland, W. I. (2019). NIGHT MOVES. In Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s (pp. 209–249). Duke University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11hpm2v.10 

Publications
Communion. London: Autograph, 1986.
Black Male/White Male. London: Gay Men's Press, 1988. Photographs by Fani-Kayode, text by Alex Hirst. The "only solo collection of his works to appear during his life."Bourland, W. I. (2019). BRIXTON. In Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s (pp. 23–57). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hpm2v.5
 Bodies of Experience: Stories about Living with HIV. - a group show at Camerawork in 1989
 Autoportraits. Camerawork RF-K March 1990 (He was included in the publicity for the exhibition but work was not shown due to his sudden death in December 1989).
 Memorial Retrospective Exhibition. 198 Gallery, December 1990  (Brian Kennedy, City Limits magazine, makes a request for donations to fund the exhibition.) Poster-catalogue essays by Alex Hirst and Stuart Hall.
 Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst: Photographs.  Autograph ABP, London, 1996. By Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst.Extract. Revue Noire.
 Decolonising the Camera. Lawrence & Wishart: 2019. By Mark Sealy pages 226-232.
 And Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography and the 1980s. Duke University Press: 2019. By W Ian Bourland.

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