Prof. IJISAKIN Eyitayo Tolulope

IJISAKIN Eyitayo Tolulope is a Professor in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He holds a PhD (2016) in African Art Studies from the same university. He has served the University in various capacities, he was the Head of Department between 2020 and 2022. Prof. Ijisakin is a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Society, New York; he also received the Fellowship of the Carnegie Corporation, New York (2020). He received a grant of the Getty Foundation for the CAA-Getty International Program (2024). He is a receipient of the Global Fellowship of the School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom.

His area of specialization include graphics cum industrial design, printmaking, and African art history. His research have contributed to knowledge on African art historical discourse through publications that explored the form, content and meaning of African art. He has published articles in reputable national and international journals, such include:

1. “Reaching Sideways, Writing Our Ways: the Orientation of the Arts of Africa Discourse” African Arts, 50(2):10-29, (2017);
2. “Printmaking in Nigeria: Its Evolution and Developmental History” Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 8 (2) 247-260, (2019);
3. “Printmaking and Cultural Imagination in Contemporary Nigerian Art” Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies 35(1):1-16, (2021);
4. “Of print and scholarship: deconstructing the literature on printmaking in contemporary Nigerian art” Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 10(9):44-59, (2022).

He has served as a reviewer for several international academic journals. He designed logos for several corporate entities. He designed the book covers for:

1. “Inside African Forests: New Perspectives on D. O. Fagunwa’s Novels” (2015);
2. “Politics and the Urban Experience in Postcolonial West African Literature” published by Universal Books, United Kingdom (2021);
3. “Africa and its Diaspora Languages, Literature and Culture”, published by the Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (2019).

He has participated in a series of art workshops and several documented art exhibitions. His artworks are held in private collections within and outside the country. He won the National Drawing Competition (Baby Friendly Initiative) organized by the Federal Ministry of Health in conjunction with UNICEF (1996).

He is listed among the artists whose works engage social change by the Denver Art Museum, in 2022. He is also listed in the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Society, New York, as a Fellow, whose work as a scholar has contributed to African history written in, and by African. He is currently supervising three PhD students, and has served as an examiner of postgraduate theses for universities within and outside Nigeria. He has served as an assessor of promotion cases to Professorial cadres within and outside the University. He has also served as a Member of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Accreditation Team to various Universities across the country. He is a member of several professional bodies including the Society of Nigerian Artists, Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, the Nigerian Field Society, and, College Art Association, New York.

Phone Number: +2348033856772
Email: tayoijisakin@oauife.edu.ng