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Moyo  Okediji is an art historian, artist, and curator. He studied fine arts  at the University of Ife, before proceeding to the University of Benin,  where he did an MFA in African Art Criticism, Poetry, and Painting. At  the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he received a PhD in African Arts  and Diaspora Visual Cultures. He has apprenticed with several indigenous  African artists working in both sacred and secular mediums including  mat weaving, textile designs, terra cotta, shrine painting, and  sculpture.

After teaching for several years in Nigeria, Okediji relocated to the  United States in 1992. For ten years he was the curator of African and  Oceanic arts at the Denver Art Museum. He has taught at various colleges  in the United States, including Wellesley College, Gettysburg College,  University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Colorado at  Denver. 

He has also exhibited at various places including the New Museum  of Contemporary Art, New York, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington  DC,. the Corcoran Center, London, and the National Museum Gallery, Lagos  Nigeria. He is the author of books and exhibition catalogues including African Renaissance, Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art; and The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art.