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Okwuosa, Tobenna Kingsley

tobennaokwuosa@ndu.edu.ng

Areas of Research Interest & Specialty

S/N Research Area
1 Contemporary Nigerian art, artists and the art world

School Attended with Qualifications

  • University of Benin - BA - 1997
  • University of Benin - MFA - 2003
  • Delta State University - PhD - 2017

Membership of Professional Bodies- Year

  • Society of Nigerian Artists, Bayelsa Chapter - 2013
  • Arts Council of the African Studies Associations, USA - 2011
  • Lagos Studies Association (LSA) - 2019

Workshops and Conferences Attended

  • 15th Triennial of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), University of California, Los Angeles, USA - 2011
  • Female Artists Association of Nigeria International Conference/Art Exhibition, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria - 2012
  • Faculty of Arts, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria, International Conference/Art exhibition - 2012
  • 5th National Symposium on Nigerian Art organised by National Gallery of Art, Nigeria in collaboration with Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH), Calabar, Cross River - 2012
  • 16th Triennial of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA - 2014
  • Interdisciplinary African Arts Conference in honour of El Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu, University of Nigeria, Nsukka - 2015
  • 1st International Conference on the State of Visual Arts Scholarship in Nigeria in the Era of Globalism, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, University of Lagos and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos - 2015
  • 4th Lagos Studies Association (LSA) Conference, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos - 2019
  • 18th Triennial of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), USA, online - 2021

Articles

  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2022). From Historical Facts to Poetic Truths’: The Nigerian Civil War and Other Subjects: An Exploration of Texts and Images in Painting. Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 43(1) 165-208 10.5070/F743156325
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2021). Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art: A New Development in the Lagos Art World". International Journal of Art and Art History, 9(2) 11-31 10.15640/ijaah.v9n2p2
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2021). La vie en mieux: Michel Hengo. UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, () 167-168
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2021). Michel Hengo: "An Icon of Modern Congolese Painting". Africa in the UNESCO Art Collection, () 97-102
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2021). Adire and the Progression of Peju Layiwola’s Artistic Logic. Peju Layiwola’s Indigo Reimagined: Rethinking Adire in Yoruba Fashion and Textile Modernity, () 31-53
  • Jess Castellote and Tobenna Okwuosa (2020). Lagos Art World: The Emergence of an Artistic Hub on the Global Art Periphery. African Studies Review, 63(1) 170-196 10.1017/asr.2019.24
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2019). Post-Zarianist Zeitgeist: A Reading of the Influence of Uche Okeke’s Modernist Work on Uche Uzorka, a Postmodernist. The Artfield: Journal of Arts and Visual Culture, 1(2) 54-62
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2019). Benin Art: An Invaluable Resources for Artists in a Time of Cultural Iconoclasm. Benin Iconography.com, () 81
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2019). Facets and Phases: Timipre Willis Amah’s Art in Photography, Painting, and Print. Facets and Phases, () 3-11
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2019). Krydz Ikwuemesi: A Diehard Ulist in the Time of Ethnic Identity Disavowal and Cultural Iconoclasm. Radiance of the Creative Spirit: Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi in Three Decades, () 69-76
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2018). The Rhetorical Dimensions of Yinka Shonibare’s 2016 Work and Tobenna Okwuosa’s 2015 Work in Linked Appropriations. TOJA: The OYASAF Journal of Art, 1(3) 32-44
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2018). "Motions and Emotions": Critical Comments with Formalist Aesthetics". Motions and Emotions, () 52-55
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2017). “Oil is Our Doom": Photographs of the Niger Delta and Beyond". Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, 11(2) 155-170 10.1080/19301944.2017.1363508
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2017). Peju Layiwola’s Art: An Engagement with Benin History and the 1897 Tragedy. The Art of Nigerian Women, () 278-281
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2017). The New Meets the Old: Strategies and Ideas in the Making of Scroll Paintings for ‘Soulcentricism’. The Artfield: Journal of Arts and Visual Culture, 1(1) 124-133
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2017). Celebrating African Arts at 50 and Its Place in Africa. African Arts, 50(1) 1-5
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2016). The Creative Expressions of Traditional Oraifite (Igbo) Women and their Exploration in Modern Painting. Okpulo: Journal of Arts and Cultural Heritage, 2(2) 50-60
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2016). Olisa Nwadiogbu: The Compulsive Artist and his Burden of Ideas. Tropical Built Environment Journal, 1(5) 58-68
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2016). Duke Asidere’s Allegorical Conversations and the Quest to Understand Postcolonial Anomy. TOJA: The OYASAF Journal of Art, 1(1)
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2015). Niger Delta: The Spectacle of Culture and the Burden of Oil through the Lens of f/stop Collective. Eyo: Journal of the Arts and Humanities, 1(1) 101-114
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2015). Exhibition and Catalogue Review, Resurgence. Creative Expression: Journal of Fine and Applied Arts, 1(1) 117-129
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2015). Art Patronage, Promotion, and Publication in Nigeria: A Focus on Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF)". IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 19(4) 33-44
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2015). The Conundrum of Contemporary Nigerian Art in the "Bronze Age". Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art, () 175-186
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2013). "Centre of Excellence" Redefined: Alterity and the Politics of Exclusion in Afropolitan Space. No Fly List, () 11-17
  • Harrie Bazunu and Tobenna Okwuosa (2013). Ridding Nigeria of Filth: A Reading of Moyo Okediji, Bright Ugochukwu Eke and Harrie Bazunu’s Application of Discarded Materials. Awka Journal of Fine and Applied Arts (AJOFAA), 1() 48-61
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2013). Issues of Security and Insecurity in Boko Haram Era: A Contextualization of Moyo Okediji’s Explosive Images. Mgbakoigba: Journal of African Studies, 2(0) 163-178
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2013). Environmental Challenges as Creative Muse: The Installation and Performance Art of Bright Ugochukwu Eke. Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2(3) 63-70
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2013). Archiving Nigerian Contemporary Existential Realities: Ben Osaghae and His Dialectical Paintings. Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2(3) 181-190
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2012). The Contemporary Art Market in Lagos. Nigerian Art in Lagos Private Collections: New Trees in an Old Forest , () 81-91
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2011). Clary Nelson-Cole: A 20th Century Enigmatic Futurist. Visual Arts Journal (VAJO SNA): Journal of the Society of Nigerian Artists , 1(2) 15-22
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2011). Tranquil Luminous: Exposing the Beautiful Sceneries of Bayelsa Through Landscape Photography. Emotan: A Journal of Arts, 5(1) 20-28
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2011). Lagos Commercial Galleries and the Artists: A Quasi-Symbiotic Relationship. Emotan: A Journal of Arts , 5(1) 90-97
  • Tobenna Okwuosa (2011). Africanist Art Historians in Unusual Places. African Arts, 44(3) 96