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Raqib Abolore Bashorun was born in Lagos in 1955, graduated from Yaba College of Technology with HND in Graphic Design; He also graduated with B.Ed.S (Art Education, 1984), M.Ed (Art Education, 1984), as well as a MFA in Sculpture with a minor in Drawing (2002), from University of Missouri, Columbia.
Since 1995, Bashorun has been Principal Lecturer at his alma mata, the School of Art, Design and Printing, Yaba College of Technology, where he has held other positions including Chief Lecturer / Head of Department of Graphics (2005-2008).
Raqib Bashorun is amongst the most prominent contemporary artists working in Nigeria today. His career as an artist and teacher is marked by significant exhibitions around the world the quality of a younger generation of artists defining their spaces on the Lagos contemporary space.
Bashorun reconstructs pre-existing materials, reinterprets and ultimately repurposes them as recycled art. The creation of something positive from the inherent negativity of waste, and the reaction of surprise, the materials inevitably draw from the observer, are the key factors in Bashorun’s art.
He has participated in over 13 solo exhibitions and has been featured in over 26 group shows at home and abroad.
Raqib Bashorun
Raqib Abolore Bashorun was born in Lagos in 1955, graduated from Yaba College of Technology with HND in Graphic Design; He also graduated with B.Ed.S (Art Education, 1984), M.Ed (Art Education, 1984), as well as a MFA in Sculpture with a minor in Drawing (2002), from University of Missouri, Columbia.
Since 1995, Bashorun has been Principal Lecturer at his alma mata, the School of Art, Design and Printing, Yaba College of Technology, where he has held other positions including Chief Lecturer / Head of Department of Graphics (2005-2008).
Raqib Bashorun is amongst the most prominent contemporary artists working in Nigeria today. His career as an artist and teacher is marked by significant exhibitions around the world the quality of a younger generation of artists defining their spaces on the Lagos contemporary space.
Bashorun reconstructs pre-existing materials, reinterprets and ultimately repurposes them as recycled art. The creation of something positive from the inherent negativity of waste, and the reaction of surprise, the materials inevitably draw from the observer, are the key factors in Bashorun’s art.
He has participated in over 13 solo exhibitions and has been featured in over 26 group shows at home and abroad.
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