Painter, Sculptor Address: Tafas Gallery, 1 Badagry Street, off 58 Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Box 708, Ikeja, Lagos. Birth: April 1935, in Ilesha, Oshun State. Training: Diploma in fine arts, Nigerian College of Arts, Science & Technology, Zaria, 1959, specializing in painting; diploma in art education, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA; course in art education, University of Sydney, Australia, 1971. Profile: Full name, Timothy Adebanjo Fasuyi; began teaching in 1960; art education officer, King's College, Lagos; art adviser to the Nigerian government; owns and operates the Tafas House, Centre for Education and Culture, Lagos. Founding member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions "Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists," Exhibition Centre, Lagos, January 16-22, 1964. "Contemporary Nigerian Art: Exhibition for Ori-Olokun Opening," Ori-Olukun Cultural Centre, Ile-Ife, June 1968. "Contemporary Nigerian Art," Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968. "Contemporary Nigerian Prints and Paintings," Fourth Ife Festival of the Arts, Gallery of the University of Ife Library, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, December 11- 15, 1971. "Offerings from the Gods," National Theatre, Lagos, June-July 1985. "Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition," National Theatre, Lagos; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; Lugard Hall, Kaduna, September 26-October 1, 1985. Writings by the Artist Cultural Policy in Nigeria. Paris: UNESCO, 1973. 63pp. illus. Awards & Honors Australian Commonwealth Scholarship, 1971; Fellow, Asele Institute, Nimo, 1985. Bibliography 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.
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