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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.

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