The catalogue name 'Osinowo' most likely refers to Kolade Oshinowo, one of Nigeria's most established painters. Born in Ibadan in 1948, he graduated in painting from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1972. He studied there just after the Zaria Art Society had challenged Western-centred art teaching and during the period around the Civil War. After two years teaching at King's College, Lagos, he joined Yaba College of Technology. There he became head of Fine Art in 1986, director of the School of Art, Design and Printing in 1990, and Deputy Rector from 1992 to 1996, before retiring as a Chief Lecturer in 2008. Through decades of teaching he helped shape generations of Lagos-trained artists. His paintings are naturalistic and expressive, focusing on the human figure, market and rural scenes, landscapes and intimate portraits of women. He has held more than 25 solo exhibitions, from the Goethe Institute in Lagos in 1973 to Mydrim Gallery in 2018, and showed at FESTAC '77. He is a past president of the Society of Nigerian Artists and received the National Productivity Order of Merit.
School or movement: Zaria-trained Nigerian modernism; Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) school.
Influenced by Zaria Art Society (Natural Synthesis), Yoruba culture.
Influenced Generations of Yaba College of Technology art students (1970s-2008).
