BOLAJI CAMPBELL

risd connection: Assistant Professor, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora; concentration advisor, History of Art and Visual Culture

Campbell has MFA in Painting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife Nigeria and a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has previously taught studio and art history courses at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife Nigeria, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. A recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Sylvia and Pamela Coleman Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Richard Horovitz Professional Development Fund Fellowship, Institute of International Education; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Nigerian Artists: A Who's Who and Bibliography (Smithsonian Institution), LĠArt Africain Contemporain, "Guidebook to Contemporary African Art" (Paris). Bolaji Campbell has published numerous essays in learned journals and as chapters in books, his most recent is a book entitled Painting for the Gods: Art and Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals (Africa World Press, 2007).

As a practicing artist, Bolaji Campbell has held 3 solo exhibitions and participated in more than two dozen shows. His works are in numerous private and public collections.