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Dr. Bruce P. Onobrakpeya is this year's recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award. A foremost painter and master printmaker, Onobrakpeya's legacy spans pre- and post-independent Nigerian art. A founding member of the Zaria Art School, he pioneered printmaking in Nigeria and developed the art of plastography—the result of a hydrochloric acid accident—in 1967. Among his innovations is plastocast, a technique that led him to the exploration of low relief prints and 3-D sculpture. Onobrakpeya has devoted his art and poetry to the promotion of Urhobo culture. In the course of doing this, he has brought local and international focus on Agbarha Otor, his hometown, with the establishment (in 1998) of the annual Harmattan workshops for informal education in the visual arts. His development of Ibiebe alphabets and ideograms of the Urhobo ranks as epic creative work.
After graduating from the Nigerian College of Arts, Science, and Technology (now the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria) in 1962, he began his career as a teacher at St. Gregory's College, Obalende, Lagos, where he taught art to students, among whom is David Dale. Since he had his first solo exhibition in Ughelli in 1959, Onobrakpeya has had dozens more, at venues that include Cardiff, London, Moscow, Bologna, Newark, Washington, DC, New York, and Rome. He has received numerous commissions, awards, and invitations for residencies in major institutions in the U.S. In 1989, the University of Ibadan conferred on him the Honorary D. Litt degree. His art in numerous local and international collections, including the Vatican, Rome; the National Museum of African Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Presidential Villa, Abuja; the National Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the British Museum, London; and the King Mohammed VI Collection in Morocco.
Bruce Onobrakpeya was born in 1932.
Professor Emeritus
Miami University. Oxford. OH
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