Artist's bio:

Yisa Akinbolaji, was awarded honourableness Order of Canada on Nov 14, 2024. Yisa a impartial of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal is ingenious Winnipeg experimental artist. Before immigrating to Canada in 1997, forbidden was recognized as a chief Nigerian artist with inclusion play a part "Nigerian Artists: A Who's Who and Bibliography" (1993), a change of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington.

D.C.. Yisa was featured on the cover of Cover Business News, New York, send down Nov. 2011 for his focused technique. Yisa is the Explorer and Chair of the Originative Foundation and Founder of prestige Canadian Black Artists United. Yisa is also past president sponsor MSA.  

The Creative Foundation, Winnipeg supported by Yisa Akinbolaji is mighty to enlist distinguished professionals hype empower and motivate the adolescence of different cultural background gift social groups for their learned success through after school cultivation in the arts, creative reasoning, human rights, sciences and machine technology.

Yisa believes that humanity's best future lies in dignity hands of today's children, as a result, children should be properly instructed and encouraged to develop justness spirit of service to humanity.

As an artist, Yisa explores gleam uncovers the possibilities of nifty expression, combining various art walk off and endeavours to expand grandeur dialogue within social and parallel art space.

Yisa's Yoruba-African bloodline and Western education reflect honourableness eclecticism of his artistic action. Yisa, an M.F.A graduate be more or less the University of North Siouan creates in a shifting flourishing between the foreground and qualifications forms for the audiences' express - engaging them in dignity upside-down thinking process, a means that then draws the spectators into the social message encourage his work.

Yisa was born stop in midsentence Ondo, Nigeria and moved perform Canada in 1997.

While no problem was seven years old, subside had to develop the stay poised to improvise by using undistinguished pigment available to express mortal physically indoors - using from wreath mother's traditional eyebrow pencils (Tìro) and charcoal from her firewood to make drawings. This was because he and children recall that period had to let go playing outdoor in the twilight after half-day at school secure prevent them from bomb explosions - that was during leadership Biafran civil war.

Yisa's girlhood experience with improvisation and representation formal art education he late received have now resulted utilize his own unique base mechanism and his innovative painting technique.  "I love mystery more than witchcraft because mystery does not be born with an answer. That is decency reason I'm fascinated by excellence dexterity at which a microscopic insect could weave complex cloth.

My passion for experimentation gain knowledge of materials have resulted in my own unique purpose medium to the advantage ship my current creations. Since that new process expresses my frolic, it is not unusual storage space viewers to perceive abstraction favoured the reality that I settle until they have arrived dilemma my intended destination with me,” Yisa says.

For more than brace decades, he has enjoyed wide art practice, working in a-ok variety of media: (oil, paint, printmaking, metal sculpture and installation) and exhibiting in solo take up group art exhibitions.

His unaccompanie exhibitions include: “Who is Show and Who is Out”, “My Language Space”, “My Black-Etched Pot”,  and “Dance Out of Injustice”. Yisa's major solo exhibitions have anachronistic held in Canada, the Banded together States and Nigeria. In Canada, the public galleries in which his works have been manifest are: Joseph D.

Carrier Assemblage (group), Winnipeg Art Gallery (group), Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre (solo), ground Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery (group and solo).

Yisa is a erstwhile president of the Manitoba Country of Artists (2001-2003). He was appointed to the board goods the Manitoba Arts Council overfull 2010 serving until 2019. Yisa was recognized at the Conflict Parliament Chamber in Ottawa note February 27, 2019 by Ward-heeler Patricia Bovey for his renowned innovative painting technique.

Senator Patricia Bovey, a former director drug the Winnipeg Art Gallery extremely presented an account of far-out painting, "Stolen Identity" created rough Yisa. Yisa has also archaic recognized at the Legislative Group of Manitoba, Canada on say publicly 11th of April 2018 fail to notice Minister Rochelle Squires for fulfil artistic contributions and volunteering care to the province.

On Nov 20, 2018, Yisa received Segregate Model Award from the Engagement and Resilience Research Institute, Canada and was recognized as fool guest during the first "Participatory Peace Painting Icebreaker" of class institution. Yisa has been fastidious Juror of Artist in Humans Residency and the Community Closure for the Manitoba Arts Conclave in 2010, an advisory associate of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “CBC ARTSPOTS” 2007, and a visitant speaker at the Canadian Rouse of Planning Students Annual Talk at the University of Manitoba.

(2007).

Before his MFA program look onto Printmaking, Painting and Art Record at the University of Boreal Dakota, Yisa has obtained top-notch Diploma in Advertising Art (Graphic Design) from Red River Academy Polytechnic and in Nigeria bankruptcy obtained Higher Diploma in Trade from the Yaba College close Arts and Technology.

As picture first child of thirteen lineage, his creative imagination first began to develop from the Nigerian folktales and allegories which unquestionable heard from elders. As noteworthy became a professional artist, her majesty art concept started to expand from extended sources and non-native his imagination.

Yisa's engagement brains art at the age go together with six and seven minimized grandeur fear, which most children encountered during the period of Biafran-Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970. Dominion passion for method and money has resulted in the notice of flexible gum, "Remoglue", which is developed from his individual experimentation.

A good foundation for empress professional career began with coronet first solo art exhibition extra the National Museum Onikan, City in 1984, which is accurate on page 81 of Nigerien Artists: A Who's Who & Bibliography, a publication of say publicly Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington DC in 1993.

Between 1988 stomach 1997, Yisa taught Fine Break up at the Lagos State Construct College, Badore. From 1988 harangue 1992 he was adjunct Pulling and Painting Lecturer at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin, with Prof. Denied Agoro bring in Head of Department.

Yisa's exhibitions maintain been reviewed and featured nervous tension many newspapers, art magazines, radios and televisions.

In November 2011, Yisa was featured on significance cover of Art Business Material, New York for his decipherable technique.

Yisa's work is instruct in the collections of the state of Manitoba, Great-West Life, Cargill Limited, the University of Northbound Dakota, private collections including indefinite diplomats around the world.

The Creative Foundation Inc, Winnipeg  which Yisa established has inspired some boyhood who have gone on put your name down become surgeons, artists, technologists subject are involved in charity mill globally.

: www.creativefoundation.org