The Photographer Muyiwa Osifuye

Muyiwa Osifuye (1960) -- Photography

Artist Profile

Muyiwa Osifuye

Muyiwa Osifuye was born in Lagos on Jan 6th 1960 and he is based in Nigeria. He attended Igbobi College and Kings College, both in Lagos. He studied Optometry (1984) and also had an MBA-Finance & Marketing (1990) from the University of Benin and University of Lagos, respectively, all in Nigeria.

In 1996, he ventured into the world of photography. In 2002, he completed his training with the New York Institute of Photography, New York, USA.

He has been working in the documentary/art mode and also does commercial assignments especially in aerial photography for the oil and gas industry.

He is also a practising entrepreneur, Optometrist, Interior designer, Video Documentarist, self-publisher/author and a thinker.

Exhibitions

2008 : Africa-See You See Me; Program In Africana Studies, New York University, USA.

2007 :‘Imagine art after’ by Index Arts London, Tate Britain, London, U.K.

2007 : Halic University Intl Exhibition of Photography, Istanbul, Turkey

2004 : Benefit Auction exhibition at The Renaissance Society Museum (University of Chicago),USA.

2004 : 5th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.

2003 : 50th Venice Biennale, Italy 2003.

2002 : Documenta 11,Kassel, Germany, 2002.

2002 : Goethe (German) Institut, Lagos, Nigeria (solo exhibitions)

Publications

2008 : Pool of Possibilities: Mapping Currents of the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China

2008 : Halic University International Exhibition of Photography Catalogue.

2007 : TATE Guide ('Imagine Art After') pg.10, Oct + Nov 2007.

2006 : Index on Censorship Journal pp.133-139 Vol.35 No 2, 2006 (London).

2005 : Review of the project 'Imagine Art After' Jimmy Magazine (Italy) Issue 1, Dec 2005.

2005 : The Guardian Newspaper of London ('Alchemy of Arts coverage made visual, audible & active') pg. 36, Review of the project 'Imagine art After' by Andrew Dickson, Nov. 26, 2005.

2005 : CAA College Art Journal (New York) Spring Ed.2005.

2005 : 'Photo-expression'- weekly column: Sunday Guardian Newspaper,Nigeria, 2005-7.

2004 : Topic Magazine (topicmag.com in New York), 2004.

2003 : 'Flash Art' Magazine, 2003 (Milan, Italy).

2002 : 'The Berliner Magazine', Berlin, Germany, 2002

2002 : Artnet.com 2002

2002 : 'Springerin', Germany, 2002

2002 : 'The Paletten' (Sweden), 2002

2002 : 'HNA' Newspaper, Kassel, Germany, 2002

Award

2008 : Semi-Finalist at the Hasselblad Masters Competition, Sweden.

2007 : Honorable Mention at the Haliç University 1st International Exhibition Of Photography Competition, Istanbul, Turkey. Nov 2007.

What am up to now

My works tend to incorporate the feelings and reflections I have about my immediate environment in Nigeria (Africa) which I do through a simple style of making pictures.

Africa has been stereotyped by way of a peculiar type of images with deliberate negligence of positive messages; this confuses and prevents balanced information from reaching the rest of the world.

Therefore, my current engagement is to document the people’s way of life and their environment but with a sense of responsibility to maintain balance, as there is no known group without its weaknesses and challenges.

And of course I do try to beam a search light on different issues of global interest through my thematic photographic series as I also explore the road of art photography and commercial assignments.

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Exhibitions

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Title: Making Ways
Name: Tabitha Wa Thuku
Country: Kenya
Medium: Mixed media on heavy canvas
Size: 149 X 140 cms
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