Kofi kayiga biography
Kofi kayiga biography
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Kofi Kayiga
Jamaican artist (born 1943)
Kofi Kayiga (born December 1943),[1] formerly known as Ricardo Wilkins,[2] is a Jamaican-born artist and educator, who migrated to the US, after periods spent in the UK and Uganda.[3] He has exhibited widely internationally and since the 1960s has taught fine art at various institutions, becoming a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt).[4][5]
Biography
Born in Kingston, Jamaica,[6] to Jamaican and Cuban parents,[4] he studied at the Jamaica School of Art,[7] and won a government scholarship that enabled him to go to London to pursue a master's degree in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art (1971).[5]
He was a lecturer at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in the early 1970s, and from 1973 to 1981 he was head of the painting department at the Jamaica School of Art.[1] He was artist-in-residence at th