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He holds a BA in Sculpture, First-Class Honours (1996) and an MFA in Painting (2003)
from the University of Benin, Benin City, Edo. A PhD in
Painting from Delta State University, Abraka, in 2017. He is a
lecturer in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Niger Delta
University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa. Okwuosa has shown his works
in five solo exhibitions in Nigeria and USA, and has participated in
many group exhibitions.
Afropolitan Series explores different ideas of portraiture in African
and Western art practices, in expressing the cosmopolitan nature of
Africans. Achille Mbembe in his essay “Afropolitanism” notes that
Africa’s “way of belonging to the world, of being in the world and
inhabiting it, has always been marked by, if not cultural mixing, then
at least the interweaving of worlds.” Elements of postcards have been
explored to invoke the colonial practice of using postcards in the
dissemination of photographic images of Africans in the West.
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