Sani Bashir, Nigerian artist, has this to say about his work. “My art is colorful and striking and it is a manifestation of my love and lust for life and art, which in itself is pure expression of self with a broad vision of life as a journey from innocence to wisdom and from ignorance to competence.” When asked of his favorite medium, he has none, “it would depend on the subject matter, mood and time, which ever one it is it has to be a vehicle fluent, competent, subject to exploration and expansion, nothing is fixed.”

Sani Bashir born in Kaduna, Nigeria in 1953, displayed artistic talent before entering elementary school.  After secondary schooling he attended Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, from which he graduated with distinction.  He has had many careers, starting as a school teacher, then a graphic artist, moving onto the National Assembly in Lagos and later being transferred to the Federal Ministry of  Information and Culture Lagos from which he was posted to Washington, DC as an information and cultural attaché in 1991. 

While here in the United States he has continued to work hard at his artwork and has won many awards and held art shows in Florida, Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland attracting an increasing number of collectors and a committed following.