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, 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. 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 nyɛla ŋun mali mabihi anahi, Femi Fani-Kayode nyɛla o tizo ŋun nyɛ doo.

Fani-Kayode daŋ nyɛla ban daa labi Brighton, England, yuuni 1966 din daa niŋ ka sooja gɔmnanti deegi Nigeria. 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. O daa nya o MFA degree in Fine Arts and Photography shikuru yuli booni Pratt Institute yuuni 1983. Din daa niŋ ka o be Pratt, Rotimi daa leei  Robert Mapplethorpe.

## 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, 1996
* 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, 2016
* Rotimi Fani-Kayode, one person show, Hales Project Room, New York, 2018
* *African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other*, FotoFest Biennial 2020,  Houston, TX, 2020  
* *Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 1955–1989*, Iceberg Project, Chicago, IL, 2020
* *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. 
* *The Studio – Staging Desire*, Autograph Gallery, Shoreditch, London, 2024-2025.

## Kpibu
Fani-Kayode nyɛla ŋun daa kpi Coppetts Wood Hospital Silimiin goli December biɛɣ;pishi ni yini dali yuuni 1989. 

## 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."
* *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.
** 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.

## Kundivihira