Joseph Olubo

Joseph Adekunle Olubo, was an artist and book illustrator active in the 1980s when he participated in some of the first art exhibitions organized by Black-British artists in the United Kingdom.Olubo was one of 22 artists included in the 1983 inaugural exhibition, Heart in Exile, at The Black-Art Gallery, an art space in London which worked with artists of African and Caribbean backgrounds.

• Heart in Exile: An Exhibition of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Photography by British-based Black Artists at The Black-Art Gallery (London), from September 4 - October 2, 1983.

• ...and Remembering, Remain: An Exhibition of Lithographs, Screenprints and Collage at Royal Festival Hall (London), from June 20 – July 7, 1985.

• New Horizons: An Exhibition of Arts at the Royal Festival Hall (London), 1985. Included 61-page exhibition catalog.

• Influences: the Art of Sokari Douglas Camp, Keith Piper, Lubaina Himid, Simone Alexander, Joseph Olubo, Brenda Agard at South London Gallery, from September 9-September 29, 1988.

• Ask Me No Questions – I Tell You No Lie: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Dedicated to the Memory of Jo Olubo at The Black Art Gallery (London), from September 6 – October 20, 1990. 8-page exhibition catalog.

• A Cultural Awakening at The Black Gallery (London), an exhibition dedicated to the late Joseph Olubo, featuring the paintings of self-taught Nigerian artist Ademola Akintola, 1990.

• The Arawaks of Jamaica. [S.l.]: Handprint, 1990. Karl Phillpotts, author. 16 pages.Colville Grant, illustrator; cover drawing by Joseph Olubo.

• So This Is England. London: Peckham Publishing Project (a community-based initiative), 1984, 68 pages.

• Spiderman Anancy. New York: H. Holt, 1989. James Berry, author. The West Indian trickster Anancy and his companions Bro Monkey, Bro Dog, and Bro Tiger are featured collection of twenty tales.

• Nanny of the Maroons, Marjorie Gammon and Karl Phillpotts, authors and Jamaican graphic artist Wilfred Limonious and Joseph Olubo, illustrators. Published by JAMAL Foundation, 1990. Handprint, 20 pages.

• Joseph Adekunle Olubo listed on the African American Visual Artists Database.

• Forty-one photographs taken by Phil Polglaze at the South London Art Gallery on 8 September 1988 during the private view of the exhibition Influences: The Art of Sokari Douglas Camp, Keith Piper, Lubaina Himid, Simone Alexander, Joseph Olubo, Brenda Agard. Several photographs are of the artists with his or her artwork, including Olubo.