Asidere is an Artist Educator and photographer – a graduate of Fine Art from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, where he completed his MFA in 1990. He went on to lecture in Art, including Art History at Auchi Federal Polytechnic for 5 years. His influences are the early fauvist, the expressionists and his peers, including Ben Osaghae, both born within the period of Nigeria’s celebration of independence. Asidere belongs to the Society of Nigerian Artists and the Guild of Professional Fine Artists’ of Nigeria.