Born in 1945 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́, Professor Emeritus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, is a painter, cartoonist, art historian, art critic, curator, and art administrator.
From 1974 to 1977, he was art editor at the Daily Times of Nigeria.
With a First Class degree in Fine Arts from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1973, he received his MA and PhD degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and returned to the University of Lagos, where he eventually became Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies before finally relocating to the U.S. in 1993.
Professor jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ is actively engaged in full-time art-making. Represented by Calabar Gallery in New York, he has recently had a spate of online exhibitions, with paintings that continue to critique the socio-political conditions of the American society. His work seeks to contribute to the ethos of the artist as a prognosticator and chronicler.
On his art, he writes: “Racism, blatant injustice, political aggrandizement, impunity, and intolerance, or sheer political idiocy all feed my creative muse. They reify my conviction that the arc of my aesthetics must bear witness and tilt toward a critique of a socio-political brutalization by the elected, the self-appointed, or those empowered as superintendents of social, religious, and political relationships.”