{"id":9814,"date":"2017-02-07T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=9814"},"modified":"2017-11-14T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:04:20","slug":"ojo-fajana","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ojo-fajana\/","title":{"rendered":"FAJANA, Ojo Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graphic Artist, Textile Artist Address: PO Box 148, Oshogbo, Oshun State. Birth: 1946, in Omuo-Ekiti, Ondo State. Training: Oshogbo workshop, 1968; encouraged by Susanne Wenger. Profile: Full name, Isaac Ojo Fajana; also known as Isaac Ojo; brother of Nike Davies; works in hand embroidery freelance artist. Solo Exhibitions New Thing Art and Architecture Center, Washington, DC, February 7-21, 1972. Group Exhibitions ‘Ten Artists from Nigeria,” Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC, March 21- April 9, 1971. Eighteenth Festival of the Arts, Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia, USA, April 18-24, 1971. “Young Artists from Around the World,” Union Carbide Gallery, Union Carbide Building, New York, USA, April 27-May 26, 1971. “Contemporary Art of Oshogbo, Nigeria,” Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York University, New York, USA, May 25-June 17, 1971. “Contemporary Tapestries, Brass Castings and Graphics from Nigeria,” The Egg and the Eye, Los Angeles, California, USA, May 1971. “Contemporary Nigerian Art,” Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, USA, May 1972. “Eight Nigerian Artists,” African-American Institute, Washington, DC, July 1972. “Africa Creates 72,” Union Carbide Gallery, Union Carbide Building, New York, USA; Community Church and Inter-Church Center, New York, USA; Bedford- Stuyvesant Restoration Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, October 1972-April 1973 “Operation PUSH, Expo ’72,” PUSH Expo, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 27- October 1, 1972. “African Art,” Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, February- April 1973. “Fibre Art,” International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, April 26-May 31, 1973. “Young Artists 1973,” Union Carbide Gallery, Union Carbide Building, New York, USA, May 1973. “Modem African Art,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA, October-December 1973. “Aladire and Oshogbo Graphics,” The African Heritage Center Gallery, Washington, DC, November 1973. “Two Workshops\/Nigeria and New Guinea,” Le Musee d’Art Haitien, Port-au- Prince, Haiti, January-February 1974. “The Faces of Africa,” Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA, January 27-February 13, 1975. “African Art,” Amarillo Art Center, Amrillo, Texas, USA, February 1975. “Modem Graphics by Ten Nigerian Artists,” Gallery rg, Curacao, Lesser Antilles, February 18-March 15, 1975. “Modem Art From Africa,” Jonade Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 1975. “Modem Art From Nigeria and Papua New Guinea from the Mbari West Collection,” Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA, November 6-December 10, 1983. “Mbari Art,” California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA, January 18-Febraury 3, 1984. “Yoruba Art in Life and Thought,” African Research Institute, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, 1988. “Contemporary Arts from Western Nigeria,” Zamana Gallery, London, October 27, 1988-January 8, 1989. “Art for Life,” National Museum, Lagos, April 19-30, 1990. “Exhibition in Support of the National Policy on Population,” National Museum, Lagos, April 19-30, 1990. Awards & Honors Second prize, African Contemporary Art Competition, African Arts, Los Angeles, 1974. Public Collections Mbari Art, Washington, DC. Bibliography Bushara, Mohammed Omer. “Competition 1974: Isaac Ojo Fajana,” African Arts (Los Angeles) 8 (2): 8-13, winter 1975. illus., and back cover (color). [See Letters to the Editor, a critique by William Wyckom of “Another Oshogbo artist” and the sameness of their work, in African Arts (Los Angeles) 8 (3): 7, spring 1975]. Modern Art from Nigeria and Papua Neio Guinea from the Mbari West Collection; [exhibition held at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, November 6-December 10, 1983] \/ foreword “Creators of Myth” by Jean Kennedy, [s.l.: s.n.], 1983. [8]pp. illus. Momirov, Letitia. “Mbari Art,” [review of exhibition held at California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, USA, January 18-February 3, 1984]. African Arts (Los Angeles) 17 (4): 82-83, August 1984. illus. [None by Fajana]. Contemporary Arts from Western Nigeria: The Oshogbo School I text by Juliet Highet. London: Zamana Gallery, 1988. [10]pp. illus. (some color), port. Drewal, Margaret Thompson. Yoruba Art in Life and Thought. Bundoora, Victoria, Australia: African Research Institute, La Trobe University, 1988. illus. 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