Dr. Otonye Bille Ayodele

Otonye Bille Ayodele is an Associate Professor, veteran Sculptor, and an African Art Historian who is presently the Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her scholarship focuses on post- colonial, post-modern, and contemporary African arts, particularly Nigerian arts, nationally and in diaspora. For about three decades, she has mentored several artists and scholars through her art practice and pedagogy. She is a fellow of the Society of Nigerian Artists (fsna). Her studies and publications have, at present, narrated and documented the lives and works of over one hundred Nigerian artists from Pre-1960, post-independence through the modernist era into the post-modernist and to the contemporary. The evolution, metamorphosis and transformation of postcolonial Nigerian arts from its traditional origins and elements have been well articulated in her various research papers

DOI:https://doi.org/10.51244/IJRSI.2023.10407 pp. 47-57.