Dr. Jonathan Adeyemi

cultural policy is fundamental to the funding of art systems...

Value in art is socially constructed in international markets. Irrespective of its perceived autonomy, Bourdieu (1993) positioned the artistic field within the meta-field of power. According to him, art and their producers do not exist independently of a complex institutional framework which authorizes, enables, empowers, and legitimizes them. Thus, cultural policy is fundamental to the funding of domestic art systems, contributing to artists’ international recognition through exposure at international events and insertion into the global markets.

"...weak internationalisation capacity has affected the valuation of contemporary art from Nigeria."

Dr. Jonathan
Adeyemi

Art Historian, Art Administrator, Sociology of Art Researcher

Holds a BA (Hons.) in Fine Arts, MBA (Marketing Management), MA African Studies (Art History) and PhD in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. He is the author of Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the global markets: Trending in the margins, in the Palgrave Macmillan Sociology of the arts series. With a paper titled Power dynamics in the art world: Navigating alternative systems, he won the 2021 PhD Student Research Award of the Sociology of Arts Network (RN 02), European Sociological Association (ESA). He was an Associate Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. Between 2009 and 2017, Dr. Adeyemi Coordinated the creative arts education curriculum development and assessment in Anglophone West Africa for The West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

Photos: National Theater in Lagos State, Nigeria photo by Omoeko Media; book cover Art of NIgeria by Ulli Beier. Images for use from author, or under creative commons and / or public domain. 

Arts Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora

Art Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora