Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria - GFA

Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria - GFA A nonprofit organization created to protect, promote and contribute to the growth of African art & artists.

It’s always great to acknowledge and honor great masters in the art industry, today is such a day with the visit to the ...
30/01/2026

It’s always great to acknowledge and honor great masters in the art industry, today is such a day with the visit to the studio of the esteemed master Baba Kolade Oshinowo by the president and members of the Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria (GFA) .

13/01/2026

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MEET THE NEW EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT OF GFA ( GUILD OF PROFESSIONAL FINE ARTISTS OF NIGERIA), DUKE ASIDERE.Duke Asidere was...
19/12/2025

MEET THE NEW EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT OF GFA ( GUILD OF PROFESSIONAL FINE ARTISTS
OF NIGERIA), DUKE ASIDERE.
Duke Asidere was born in Lagos and is one of Nigeria’s leading contemporary artists. He studied fine art at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and graduated with a first class in painting (1988). He also earned a Masters in fine art from the same institution (1990). From 1990 to 1995, Asidere lectured in painting, drawing and art history at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi. In 2004, he took to photography under Don Barber’s tutelage. Since then, he has engaged with cameras to search for inspiration, themes and accidents to imbibe in his creative pursuits.

Asidere’s work engages contemporary African politics. Through visual metaphors, the artist comments on the everyday human drama that surrounds him; political, social, psychological or cultural. Furthermore, he adds an element of surprise to these sketches of human drama by infusing them with irony and humour. Asidere’s broad oeuvre ranges from headless or limbless figures and faces of strangely hybrid beings to densely populated urban landscapes, accentuated with thick strokes of vivid colour. He has also turned to car enamel paint, which he applies with a spray gun to produce emotionally charged works that retain figurative subject matter, and at the same time emphasise abstract qualities. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of Asidere’s style is his simplicity of form and expressive line, which he achieves with an economy of means.

Asidere has also participated in several solo and group exhibitions, both locally and internationaly.

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GFA (as the guild is popularly called) is an association of Artists positioned to protect and promote, the interests of full-time professional fine-artists, as well as contribute to the growth and development of the Art industry at large. This group has kept the business of art at the corporate and gallery level afloat, through thick and thin.

The following became the mission:


  • To establish ethical standards and rules that would encourage and enhance the proper practice of the profession in Nigeria.

  • To promote self sustenance through professional art practice.