May to June 2010
Born October 5, 1966, Mufu Onifade attended Saint Joseph's Catholic School, Lagos (1974 - 1980) and Dolphin High School, Lagos (1980 - 1985) for his primary and secondary education respectively. He proceeded to The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria (1986 - 1988) to obtain his National Diploma in General Arts. He won the Best Student Prize. In 1992, he became the foremost Nigerian to master and practise Painting on animal skin after going through a professional training under the legendary Lemma Guya of Ethiopia at the African Art Museum and Training Institute, Debre-Zeit, Ethiopia. He also completed his Bachelor of Art progarmme in Fine Arts in 1997 at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, recording the overall best results in the Department of Fine Arts. He has just completed his Masters programme in Art History at the same institution.
Mufu has developed an authentic African Painting technique now popularly known as Araism. The experiments with which he achieved this feat lasted seven years (1989 to 1996). He later launched the technique with a solo exhibition of 32 paintings at the Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Centre), Lagos in 1998. His second solo show was held at the French Cultural Centre, Ikoyi, Lagos in 2005. He has also taken part in one joint show and participated in over 40 group exhibitions including the first African Regional Summit and Exhibition on Visual Arts (ARESUVA 2008) and International Art Expo Las Vegas (2008). His works have been ceremoniously shown in Ethiopia, Austria, United Kingdom, Belgium, United States etc
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