Bruce Onobrakpeya

Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya (bɛ dɔɣi o la  silimiingoli August bɛɣu pihita dali, yuuni  1932) o nyɛla  Nigerian ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma din nyɛ printmaker, painter nti pahi sculptor. O nyɛla ŋun wuhi baŋsim  Tate Modern din be  London la ni, ni National Museum of African Art din be  Smithsonian Institution n be Washington, D.C., nti pahi Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, din be Sweden.din nyɛ . National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos, nyɛla Onobrakpeya ni wuhi baŋsim pam shɛli yaha ka o tuma nim pam nyɛ din ni tooi nya  Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art puuni.

O bilim ni saha
Bruce Onobrakpeya nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so tiŋ yuli booni  Agbarha-Otor din be  Delta State,  o ba n nyɛ Urhobo . O nyɛla ŋun zoogi dolodolo ni,  amaa ka lahi bɔhim bɛ ya kaya ni taada yaha. O daŋ nyɛla ban daa kuli tiŋyuli booni Benin City, Edo State, saha shɛli o ni daa na nyɛ bia. O chaŋla shikuru yuli booni  Western Boys High School, ni ka o daa bɔhim nucheeni tuma o karimba yuli daa booni Edward Ivehivboje sani .   

Body of work

Public collections holding his work

 University of Lagos Library, Akoka, Lagos
 Catholic Chapel, University of Ife, Ile-Ife
 St. Paul’s Church, Ebute-Metta, Lagos
 National Gallery of Modern Art, National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos
 St. John the Evangelist Church, Shogunle, Ikeja
 Museum of African and African-American Art and Antiquities, Buffalo, New York
 Eda Lord Demarest Memorial African Art Collection, University of Redlands
 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 Vatican Museum, Rome
 National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C
 Hvittrask Suomi – Finland (Eliel Saarinen’s Studio Home and Exhibition)
 Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja
 Leader of Victory Museum, Baghdad, Iraq
 Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja, Nigeria
 National Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
 Victoria and Albert Museum London. 
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
 Minneapolis Institute of Arts 
 The British Museum.
 King Mohammed VI Collection Morocco.
 Tate Modern, London.

Book illustrations

 Achebe, Chinua, No Longer At Ease, Heinemann, London
 Babalola, Adeboye, Iwe Ede Yoruba, Apa Kini, Longmans of Nigeria, 1961
 Ekwensi, Cyprian, An African Night’s Entertainment, AUP Lagos, 1962
 Ekwensi, Cyprian, Juju Rock, AUP Lagos
 Nigerian Episcopal Conference, May Your Kingdom Come, Geoffery Chamman, London, 1969
 Nwankwo, Nkem, Tales Out of School, (Cover illustration), AUP, Ibadan
 Onadipe, Kola, Sugar Girl, AUP, 1964
 Uwemedimo, Rosemary, Akpan and the Smugglers, AUP, Ibadan, 1965
 Quacoopne, T. N. O., West African Religion, AUP,Ibadan, 1969
 Taiwo, Oladele, The Hunter And The Hen, AUP, Ibadan, 1969
 Haeger, Barbara, Africa: On Her Schedule is Written A Change, AUP, Ibadan, 1981
 Onadipe, Kola, Magic Land of the Shadows, AUP, Lagos, 1970
 Soyinka and Fagunwa, A Forest of a Thousand Demons, Nelson, London
 Deliss, Clementine, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa, White Chapel Art Gallery, London, 1985
 Nzekwu, Onuora and Michael Crowder, Eze Goes to School (cover Illustration), AUP, Ibadan, 1986
 Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole, Forest of A Thousand Daemons, City Lights, 2013 

Dissertations and selected reference materials

AIPOH, MARY ANNE U., "Religious Themes in Bruce Onobrakpeya’s Works". An unpublished dissertation presented to the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, as part of the fulfilment for the Degree B.A. (Fine Arts) 1983, 53 pages.
EKEH, PETER P., "Studies in Urhobo Culture. Chapter 26: Bruce Onobrakpeya: His Art and International Reputation", by Richard A. Singletary, Ph.D. of Singletary Gallery & African Art Museum, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA, pp. 632–681. Urhobo Historical Society (Buffalo, New York and Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria) , 768 pages with index and photo of Onobrakpeya.
FULLANI, GIOVANNI (E), San Paolo Nell” Art Contemporanea (Musei Vaticani (1977) page 112,176
FALUADE, GBOLAHAN, "The Art of Bruce Onobrakpeya" (unpublished essay submitted to the Department of Fine Arts in partial fulfilment for the award of B.A. (Fine Art), University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, June 1979), 59 pages.
FOSU, KOJO, 20th Century Art of Africa, Zaira, Nigeria: Gaskiya Corporation Ltd, 1986.
JEGEDE, DELE, "Trends in Contemporary Nigerian Art, A Historical Analysis", unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 1973.
MOUNT, MARSHAL WARD, African Art: The Year Since 1920, Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1973.
ODUFEJO, C. M. SUNDAY, "The Art of Bruce Onobrakpeya as I See it in 1975" (unpublished HND thesis, Yaba College of Technology), June 1976, 88 pages.
OKEKE EZE, EMMANUEL, "Bruce Onobrakpeya – A Research into the Print Experiments of a Contemporary Nigerian Artist" (unpublished Bachelor of Arts thesis, University of Nigeria, Nsukka), 1976, 92 pages.
OKEKE, UCHE, Art in Development – A Nigerian Perspective, Documentation Centre, Asele Institute Nimo, Nigeria and African American Cultural Centre, Minneapolis, USA, 1982, 91 pages.
UDOMA EKPO UDO, "Non-Naturalistic Representation in Contemporary Nigerian Paintings (A Study of Styles and Trends)", an unpublished Master of Arts dissertation, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1989.
OLAOSEBIKAN W. A., Cultural and Creative Arts: A Source Book for Teachers, Ibadan: Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Ltd, Ibadan, page 38, 60, 112, 116.
OYELOLA, PAT Everyman’s Guide to Nigerian Art, Nigeria. Magazine special publication, Lagos, 1976
Nigerian Artistry: Written by Pat Oyelola with foreword by Bruce Onobrakpeya, published by Mosuro Publishers, 2010.
SPRING, CHRISTOPHER ANGANZA AFRIKA, African Art Now, Lawrence King, 2008, pp. 246–251.
SIKPI, GREGORY KOFI, "History of Contemporary Nigerian Art" (unpublished Bachelor of Arts Degree thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, July 1988)
WAHLMAN, MAUDE, Contemporary African Art, Chicago, 1974
ROLF BROCKMANN, GERD HOTTER, Szene Lago, Reise in Eine Afrikanische, Kultermetropole, Trickster Verlag 1994.
WALKER, JAMES The Black Experience in Canada, published by the Ontario Education Communications Authority, 1979, page 80.
WILLET, FRANK, African Art, Thames and Hudson London, 1971.
VERNICEM. KELLY, Nigerian Artist: A Who’s Who and Bibliography, 
Published JANET L., STANLEY for the National Museum of African Art Branch Smithsonian Institution Libraries Washington, D.C. by Hans Zell London, 1993.
STANLEY, JANET L., Arts of Africa – An Annotated Bibliography. Volume I & II, African Studies Association Press, Atlanta, 1992, 1993
KENNEDY, JEAN, New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. USA1992.
HANS D’ ORVILLE, Leadership for Africa, edited, 1995 (Editor)
DUNCAN,. CLARKE, African Art, Random House, New York.
PICTON, JOHN, Image and Form (prints drawings and Sculpture from Southern Africa and Nigeria) School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) University of London 1997.
REVUE NOIRE Nigeria: African Contemporary Art, No. 30, 1998. (Jean Loup Pivin) Editorial
JAMES SHOAF TURNER, The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996 (Editor).
PAUL CHIKE DIKE & PAT OYELOLA, The Zaria Art Society: A New Consciousness. National Gallery of Art. 1998.
NZEGWU NKIRU Contemporary Textures, Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art ISSA 1999.
CATHERINE KING, Views of Difference: Different Views of Art, Yale University Press, New Haven & London in association with The Open University 1999.
SIDNEY LITTLEFIELD KASFIR, Contemporary African Art – Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1999.
ISHOLA-LEMOMU, KUNLE, Bruce Onobrakpeya 1990–2000. Unpublished dissertation for the award of the Bachelor of Arts Degree, Lagoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho 2001
PAMELA MC. CLUSKY and ROBERT FARIS THOMPSON, Art from Africa-Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Seattle Art Museum and Princeton University
Press 2002.
MARTHA G. ANDERSON And PHILIP M. PEEK, Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta. UCLA Fowler Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, 2002.
Richard Singletary Bruce Onobrakpeya, USA, 2002
BARBARA PLANKENSTEINER, Benin Kings and Rituals (Court Arts from Nigeria), 2007.
JEWELS OF NOMADIC IMAGES, with essays by Peju Laiwola, Ekpo Udo Udoma and Olu Amoda, published by Ovuomaroro, 2009
JOHN GODWIN AND GILLIAN HOPWOOD, The Architecture of Demas Nwoko, Farafina, Lagos. 2009.
MASKS OF FLAMING ARROWS, Edited by Dele Jegede, with essays by  David Opkako and Gani Odutokun, 5 Continents, Italy, 2013.
DOZIE IGWEZE, The Story Teller of Agbarha-Otor, Bruce Onobrakpeya's Visual Tales. Hourglass Gallery, 2016.

Films and documentaries

Kindreds Spirits: Contemporary Nigerian Artists, Smithsonian World Washington, D.C. USA
The Magic of Nigeria. Produced by Delka/Polystar directed by Ola Balogun, Lagos, Nigeria.
Recalling the Future Art by Joanna Grabski, Produced and directed by Claudine Pommier Executive Producer Cheikh Tidiane N'diaye./Arts in Action Society (Vancouver, Canada) 2002.
The Harmattan Workshop Experience: The Journey so far: film and documentary on 10 years the Agbarha- Otor Harmattan workshop Experience produced and directed by Onobrakpeya, 2009.
RedHot: Produced by Communication for Change, directed by Sandra Obiago, June 2011, Lagos, Nigeria.

Kundivihira

Category:Urhobo people
Category:1932 births
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century Nigerian male artists
Category:20th-century Nigerian painters
Category:21st-century Nigerian painters
Category:Ahmadu Bello University alumni
Category:Elizabeth City State University faculty
Category:Members of the Order of the Niger
Category:Nigerian printmakers
Category:Nigerian schoolteachers
Category:Recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award