Kunle Adeyemi, Ph.D

Kunle Adeyemi, Ph. D is a Lagos-based multi-disciplinary visual artist, researcher, painter, graphic designer, printmaker, art educator, art writer, lecturer and former Dean of the prestigeous Faculty of Art, Design and Printing, Yaba College of Technology.

An Ondo born artist and minister of God. A former Lagos State Chairman and Vice-President, Society of Nigerian Artists. He had his formal Visual arts training at the prestigious School of Art; Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos, State University, University of Benin, and Delta State University respectively. By act of God and dint of hard work, he became the first graduate Philosophy degree holder (Ph.D in studio Arts, Practice-led) in any Nigerian University in 2011/12 supervised by the erudite scholar, Professor, Osa D. Egonwa.

His practical knowledge and thesis became the basis for many art scholars theoretical interest on how visual arts practice reflect societal transformation, building a virile studio art through practice based research and visual theory.

He received the leadership award for lifetime achievement from the Visual Arts professional body (Society of Nigerian Artists). He has had over 128 joint and group shows and 31 one-man exhibition locally and internationally. He enjoys motivating and encouraging people around him particularly youths and women who are genuinely aspiring for higher heights. He has facilitated many workshops, residences and visual arts retreats in Sweden, United States of America, Liberia and Nigeria. He often times engage in donating his work, substance, talent and knowledge to charity and community development organizations.

His studio in Mushin, Lagos state engages in training and development of school children, school drop-outs, physically challenged, industrial attachment students from Nigerian Polytechnics and Universities.