William Miko
William Bwalya Miko is a Zambian abstract painter and art lecturer. He is Head of Department in Fine Arts at the Zambian Open University.Life
As a student at Evelyn Hone College in the late 1980s Miko helped found the Zambia National Visual Arts Council, serving on the first interim national executive committee. In 1999 he obtained a Masters in Fine Art from Middlesex University.
He is Senior Visual Arts Lecturer in the School of Media, Performing and Fine Arts at the Zambian Open University, which began teaching a Fine Arts degree course in 2010. At the first graduation of ZAOU fine arts graduates in 2014, Miro turned himself into a human canvas, wearing a white suit as students daubed and slashed paint over him in a performance titled 'Correcting the National Anomaly'.
Miko has presented conference papers on Zambian art in other African countries, as well as Europe and the United States.
