| 词条 | Moyo Okediji |
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| name = Moyo Okediji | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Moyosore Okediji | birth_date = 1956 | birth_place = Lagos | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Nigerian | spouse = | field = {{Flatlist|
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}} | movement = African art | works = | patrons = | influenced by = {{Flatlist| }} | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = }} Moyo Okediji is an art historian, painter and artist whose works contains a number of icons and signifiers of the deep aspects of Yoruba culture.[1] He was part of Ona, an art movement at Obafemi Awolowo University. Early life and educationOkediji was born in Lagos in 1956; his family hails from Oyo town, in Oyo state. His parent moved to Ile-Ife when Okediji was young and he spent most of his adolescent years in the ancient town. In 1977, he completed a degree in painting at the University of Ife, thereafter, he worked as a graduate assistant in the Faculty of Arts at the university. Okediji later earned a master's degree at University of Benin and returned to the University of Ife as a lecturer. While in Benin, he was influenced by the techniques of Guyanese painter Doris Rodgers who included decorative elements of African origin in her works.[2] WorkIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, Okediji,along with Kunle Filani and others were part of the art movement called Ona, the movement sought to reference Yoruba adages, proverbs, and visual concepts in their art works adjusted to modern Nigerian realities of the twentieth century.[3] During the period, he also edited a short lived magazine called Kurio Africana. The group held their first exhibition in March 1989 at the University of Ibadan. Okedeji went on to obtain a PhD at the University of Wisconsin in 1995. He was the Curator of African and Oceanic Arts at the Denver Art Museum from 2003 to 2008. He is currently an academic staff of the University of Texas, Austin.[4] Books
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University Press of Colorado. {{ISBN|0870816810}}. References1. ^University of California, Los Angeles. (1967). African arts. Vol 30, p43 2. ^Harris, M. D. (1996). Contemporary yoruba art in ile-ife: History, continuum, motive, and transformation. Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Globa, p172 3. ^Harris p165 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.utexas.edu/2011/02/28/okediji_moyo|title=Race, gender and sexuality in African art|author=Leslie Lyon |date=February 28, 2011|accessdate=October 11, 2015|publisher=University of Texas at Austen News}} External links
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