Dr. AYODELE, Otonye Bille
Personal Statement
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.
Qualifications
- PhD African Art History
- fsna (Fellow of the Society of Nigerian Artists
Selected Publications and Contributions to Knowledge
- Ayodele, O. B. (2023). Visual Migrations and Cultural Hybridization as Identity in Postcolonial Nigerian Art: An Overview of Installation Art by Five Contemporary Nigerian Artists. The Artist Journal (TAJ) A Journal of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Uyo, Nigeria. Vol.6. No.1. pp. 32-42. https://www.theartistjournaluniuyo.ng
- Ayodele, O. B. (2023). Understanding the -Isms of Nigerian Postcolonial Art Movements: An Ideological Path for Emerging Contemporary Art. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science 10(4) Open Access ISSN: 231-2705
- https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrisi/digital-library/volume-10-issue-4/47-57.pdf
- Ayodele, O. B. and Jonathan, Deborah E. (2023) Contemporary Art and Socio-Cultural Issues: Impact of Nigerian Feminist Art Expressions on Gender Sensitivity. Maiduguri Journal of Art and Design (MAIDJAD) Vol. VIII. ISSN: 2636-445X pp. 39- 49. www.maidjad.org
- .Akinde, T. E., Ayodele O. B., Abokede, O. O., Eyinade, A. S. (2024) Potteryscaping Bruce Onobrakpeya’s Feminine Plastograph. ShodhKosh: Jourmal of Visual and Performing Arts 5(5), 1519 – 1529, Open Access. ISSN (Online): 2582 – 7472
- https://dx.doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i5.2024.3166
- Ayodele, O. B. & Kolawole, S. K. (2025) Beyond Gendered Art Practice: Ten Contemporary Women Cloth Weavers in the Sustainability of Aso-Oke in Oke Ogun, Nigeria. Lagos Notes and Records, vol. 30, pp. 79- 105. Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos.
- https://lnr.unilag.edu.ng/issue/view/335.0
- Ayodele, O. B. & Agbeleye, A. B. (2026). “Socio-Cultural Symbolisms Of EgúngúnCostumes Across Six Yoruba Towns: Fostering Contemporary Kindred-ship From Ancestral Artistic Memories, International Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol 2, No. 1, pp. 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.58806/ijsed.2026.v2i1n01
- https://ijsedjournal.com/index.php/ijsed/article/view/38
