Yinka Adeyemi

Yinka Adeyemi is a Yoruba artist from Osun State, Nigeria. He was born in Iragbiji and lived in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ for four decades before moving to Oakland, California, United States.

Adeyemi began his career with the Osogbo Arts Movement in Nigeria in the 1960s. He studied and traveled with the Duro Ladipo Theatre, and was a student of Austrian artist Susanne Wenger.

Adeyemi has participated and continues to participate in solo & group art exhibitions in his native Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia, The Netherlands, and numerous cities in the United States, including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Emeryville, Berkeley, Los Angeles, California, San Jose, and San Leandro, California, Boston, Massachusetts, Cleveland, Ohio, Oakland, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Adeyemi's mediums include batiks, paintings on cloth and rice paper, three-dimensional powder glass beads mosaics, tapestries, and mono & linoleum prints.

External Links and Sources

* [http://www.african-encounters.com/artist_gallery.aspx?aid=9 Gallery of selected Yinka Adeyemi artwork]
* [http://www.african-encounters.com/artist_overview.aspx?aid=9 Short biography of Yinka Adeyemi]
* [http://www.african-encounters.com African Encounters] Yinka Adeyemi's west coast representatives
* [http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_africanart_oshogbo.html Nigerian Artists of the Oshogbo School]