Multitalented Nigerian architect, sculptor, and designer Demas Nwoko is named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Biennale in recognition of what curator Lesley Lokko described as the “polyglot nature of his talents and oeuvres and to the rather narrow.
As a member of the Zaria Arts Society at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science, and Technology in the 1960s, popularly known as the “Zaria Rebels,” Onobrakpeya combined his training in the Western-representational style with a focus on Nigeria’s artistic traditions.