Career
Adeyemi began his career with the Osogbo Arts Movement in Nigeria in the 1960s. He studied and traveled with the Duro Ladipo Theatre, and was a student of Austrian artist Susanne Wenger.
Adeyemi has participated and continues to participate in solo & group art exhibitions in his native Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia, The Netherlands, and numerous cities in the United States, including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Emeryville, Berkeley, Los Angeles, California, San Jose, and San Leandro, California, Boston, Massachusetts, Cleveland, Ohio, Oakland, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Adeyemi's mediums include batiks, paintings on cloth and rice paper, three-dimensional powder glass beads mosaics, tapestries, and mono & linoleum prints.
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