Bruce Onobrakpeya

Printmaker and elder of the Zaria Art School

Citation

Printmaker, painter and sculptor; elder of the Zaria Art School generation that redefined modern African art from a Zaria studio floor. Trained at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria — the institution ABU absorbed at its founding — and honoured worldwide across seven decades of work.

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