Who is Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, the fifth generation Nigerian sculptor and academic.

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Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, at work, Ibadan, Nigeria. 

Lamidi Olonade Fakeye was born in 1928 at Ila Orangun. Fakeye took to woodcarving early and naturally, for the Fakeyes are renowned woodcarvers. At age 10, Lamidi carved his first sculptor, at which point he became an apprentice to his father. And at 21 he began to be an apprentice with the master sculptor George Bamidele Arowoogun .

In 1955, he went to work at Holy Cross Primary School in Lagos , Nigeria as an art instructor. His first solo exhibition was in 1960 and took place at the British Council in Nigeria. In 1962, he was named the artist-in-residence at
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan . By 1964, he was elected president of the Society of Professional Artists of Nigeria,  the same year that his exhibit opened at the United States Information Service in Nigeria. In 1971, there was an exhibit that showed three generations of Fakeye woodcarvers in Ibadan, Nigeria. He was appointed to the faculty of University of Ife in 1978. In 1989, he served as the artist-in-residence at a number of universities in cities such as Cleveland and Pittsburgh . He published his autobiography in 1996 and had a retrospective exhibit at Hope College in
Holland, Michigan .  A retrospective exhibition of his life's work was held at the Smithsonian in 1999.

Lamidi Olonade Fakeye's studio sign, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Awards:-

1989: Awarded Oyo State, Nigeria, Special Merit Award

1999: Appointed Kellogg Visiting Artist for Michigan

2008: Named a
UNESCO Living Human Treasure


Fakeye died on December 25, 2009 in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His death was due to complications following prostate-cancer surgery.

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