TWINS SEVEN-SEVEN (1944) [view available works from this artist]

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1965 - "Third Anniversary Celebration of Mbari Mbayo", Oshogbo, Nigeria

1970 - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

- "The Paintings of Twins Seven-Seven" - USIS, lbadan, Nigeria

1971 - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1972 - Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, USA

1973 - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1974 - National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria

- Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1975 - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1977 - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1990 - "Paintings & Drawings" - Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

 

GROUP EXHIBTIONS

1965 - "Moderne Kunst aus Oshogbo" - Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich, Germany

1967 - Traverse Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

- "Contemporary African Art" - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London,UK

- Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1968 - "Contemporary Nigerian Art: Exhibition for Ori-Olokun Opening" - Ori-Olokun Cultural Centre, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

1969 - "Contemporary African Art" - Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, USA

[travelled in the USA from 1969-1973 to: Studio Museum in Harlem and New York University, New York; University of Missouri, Columbia; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland; West Virginia State College, Institute; North East Missouri State College, Kirskville; Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California; Compton Community College, Compton, California; Citrus College, Azusa, California; Mira Costa College, Oceanside, California, and Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California]

- "Oshogbo Artists" - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

- "Contemporary African Art" - Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

1970 - "African Painting at the BBC"- Bush House, London, UK

- "Oeuvres Africaines Nouvelles" - Musée de I'Homme, Paris, France

1971 - "Moderne Malerei in Afrika" - Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria

- "Second Indian Triennial" - Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

- "Oshogbo Artists" - Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

- "Ten Artists from Nigeria" - Arts Club of Washington, USA

- "Eighteenth Festival of the Arts" - Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

- "Contemporary Tapestries, Brass Castings and Graphics from Nigeria" - The Egg and the Eye, Los Angeles, California, USA

1972 - "New African Art in Czechoslovakia"- Náprstek Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia

- " Contemporary Nigerian Art"- Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, USA

- "Africa Creates '72" - Union Carbide Gallery, Union Carbide Building, New York, USA

- "Oshogbo Artists," Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

1973 - Community Church and Inter-Church Center, New York, USA

- Bedford- Stuyvesant Restoration Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

- "African Art" - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

- "Modern African Art" - Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA

- "Contemporary Nigerian Graphics and Textiles" - National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1974 - "Contemporary African Art" - Museum of African Art, Washington, USA

- "Tradition and Change in Yoruba Art"- E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, USA

- "Graphics from Five Countries" - Southern University in New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

- "Art in Africa Today" - Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA

- "African Art Today: Four Major Artists" - African-American Institute, New York, USA

- "African Prints: An Exhibition of Contemporary African Art" - Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

- "Contemporary Nigerian Art"- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

1975 - Afro-American Historical & Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

- "The Faces of Africa"- Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA

- "Modern Graphics by Ten Nigerian Artists" - gallery rg, Curaçao, Lesser Antilles

- "Visions of Africa"- Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

- "Art-Craft from Africa" - Maryland Commission on Afro-American & Indian History & Culture, Annapolis, Maryland, USA

1976 - "Two African Artists: Amir I. M. Nour and Twins Seven-Seven" - Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

1977- FESTAC '77, Lagos, Nigeria

- "African Contemporary Art"'- Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA

1978 - "National Art Exhibition" - National Theatre, Lagos, Nigeria

1979 - "Moderne Kunst aus Afrika" - Staatlichen Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany

1980 - "Twenty Years of Oshogbo Art," Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria

- "Moderne Kunst in Afrika" - Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- "Contemporary Nigerian Artists: Ten Artists of the Oshogbo Workshops" - New World Center Campus Art Gallery, Miami, USA

- Metropolitan Miami-Dade Library System South Regional Library, Miami, USA

- "Oshogbo Artists", Oshogbo, Nigeria

- "Neue Kunst in Afrika", Mainz, Germany

- Bayreuth, Germany

- Wörgl, Austria

- "National Art Exhibition"- National Theatre, Lagos, Nigeria

1981 - "Twenty Years of Oshogbo Art" - Goethe Institute, Nigeria

1982 - "De Goden Zijn Niet Dood" - Provinciehuis, Zwolle, The Netherlands

- "Nigerianische Kunst-Ausstellung" Nigerian Cultural Centre, Bonn, Germany

- Ingleheim and Berlin, Germany

- "Ausstellung Nigerianische Kunst der Gegenwart", Bonn, Germany

1983 - "Oshogbo Arts" - Elf House, Lagos, Nigeria

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1984 - "Contemporary African Art" - National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

- "Evolution in Nigerian Art" Lagos, Nigeria

1985 - "Senegal bis Sambia: Neue Kunst aus Afrika", Bayreuth, Germany

- "lwalewa: Afrikanische Kunst Heute" - Städtische Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

"Oshogbo Art"- Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, UK

- Commonwealth Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland

"Silver jubilee National Art Exhibition" - National Theatre, Lagos, Nigeria

- "Myth and Image. An Exhibition of Works by 14 Nigerian Artists", Denton, Texas, USA

1987 - Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria

1988 - "Oshogbo Artists"- Heritage International Hotel, Oshogbo, Nigeria

- "Art from the African Diaspora: Becoming Visible" - Aljira, Newark, USA

- "Uhuru: African and American Art Against Apartheid" - City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, USA

- "Art by Metamorphosis: Selections of African Art from the Spelman College Collection" - Department of Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, USA

1989 - " Third Biennial Exhibition" - Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba

- "Influences: Contemporary African and African-American Art" - Hodson Gallery, Tatem Arts Center, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, USA

- "Magiciens de la Terre"- Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, France

- "Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst", Bonn, Germany

1990 - "West Africa: Powerful Patterns"- Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, USA

- "Songs of Power, Songs of Praise: Modem Visions from Haiti, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea" - San Jose State University Gallery, San Jose, California, USA

- "Images of the Nigerian Nation" National Theatre, Lagos, Nigeria

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA

Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia, USA (Works formerly in the Harmon Foundation Collection)

lwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germanv.

ELF Oil Company, Paris, France

Mbari Art, Washington, DC, USA

Musée de I'Homme, Paris, France

Museum fiir Völkerkunde, Frankfurt, Germany

Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany

Museum of Man, Ottawa, Canada

MOMA - Museum of Modem Art, New York, USA

Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

National Gallery of Modem Art, Lagos, Nigeria

National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, USA

Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA

Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

University of California, African Studies Center Los Angeles, USA

University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies, lbadan, Nigeria

Tadieo Museum, Hammenlinna, Finland

 

 

 

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