OSIFO Osagie

Sculptor Address: c/o Powerline Ministries, Ijachatedo, Itire, PO Box 6557, Surulere, Lagos. Birth: 1939, in Idumu-Omwana, near Benin City, Edo State. Training: Lagos City College and Yaba Technical Institute, 1957; received a grant to study and exhibit art in Israel, 1962; studied under his brother Felix Idubor. Profile: Full name, Paul Osagie J. Osifo; brother of Felix Idubor; artist n-residence, Southern Illinois University, Performing Arts Training Center, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA; freelance artist, Lagos; works in wood, plaster, stone, cement and fiberglass. Solo Exhibitions "Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul O.J. Osifo," British Council, Ibadan, October 1-9, 1963. "African Contemporary Sculpture," St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 198-? Group Exhibitions "Contemporary Nigerian Art," Independence Exhibition, Lagos, September 20- October 2, 1960. Harmon Foundation, New York, USA; Hampton University, Virginia, USA, 1961- 1964. "Kunst aus Zentralafrika," Berlin, Bremen, Dortmund, and Darmstadt, Germany, 1960-1961. "Art from Africa of Our Time", Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, USA, December 28, 1961- January 19, 1962. Commonwealth Arts Festival, Royal Festival…