Address: Design Productions Nigeria, PO Box 499, Yaba, Lagos. Birth: In 1926. Training: Studied in the United States on a Ford-Rockefeller grant, 1952; St. Martin's School of Art, London, 1957. Profile: Full name, Omotayo Aiyegbusi; graphic artist, Ministry of Information, Ibadan; represented Nigeria at the Institute of International Education, New York, USA, 1952; designer and silkscreen artist for Black Orpheus; trained apprentices in the silk-screen process; designed book jackets for Cambridge University Press, Evans Brothers and for individual writers; designed greeting cards and calendars. Member: Society of Industrial Artists, London; founding member, Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions "Nigerian Arts Festival," Lagos, April, 1950. "Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists," Exhibition Centre, Lagos, January 16-22, 1964. "Contemporary Nigerian Art," Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968. Second Indian Triennial, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India, 1971. "Contemporary Nigerian Prints and Paintings," Fourth Ife Festival of the Arts, University of Ife Library, Ile-Ife, December 11-15, 1971. Writings by the Artist "Eine Mischung aus Afrikanischer Mythologie und Englischem Witz," pp. 9-11. In: Georgina Beier, [Bayreuth: Iwalewa-Haus, 1983?]. 40pp. See pages 37-39 for English translation, "A Mixture of African Mythology and English Whimsy." "Aiyegbusi Talks about Georgina Beier's Paintings," Tendenzen (Munich) 25 (146): 15, April-June 1984. Honors & Awards Best entry, crafts section, Nigerian Festival of the Arts, Lagos, 1950and 1951 and United Africa Company cup for best all-round entry, Nigerian Festival of the Arts, 1950. Public Collections Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany. Screen prints: three untitled. Mbari Art, Washington, DC. Bibliography "600Compete in Nigerian Arts Festival," West African Annual (Zaria)1950,page 62. Hennessy, Olive. "A YoungNigerianLooksat Modern Art," West African Review (London) September 1952, page 923. "Artist and Designer," West African Review (London) Independence Issue, 1960. illus. Contemporary Nigerian Art: An Exhibition Assembled by the Society of Nigerian Artists; [held at the Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968]. London: Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, 1968. [15]pp. "Contemporary Nigerian Artists at Work," Nigeria Magazine (Lagos)no. 97:111-112, June-August 1968. illus.
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