{"id":10264,"date":"2017-02-10T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10264"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:51:22","slug":"osevwe-david","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/osevwe-david\/","title":{"rendered":"OSEVWE David"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosaicist, Muralist, Textile Artist Address: Artist Kooperative of Nigeria, Ibadan-Gbogan Road, PO Box 936, Oshogbo, Oshun State. Birth: February 9, 1948, in Ilashe via Ilesha, Oshun State. Training: Trained with Jimoh Buraimoh; attended Oshogbo art workshops, Oshogbo, with Georgina Beier; actor and assistant stage lighting operator, Duro Ladipo Theatre, Oshogbo; also studied with Bruce Onobrakpeya, and at Hammer Hill, Telluride, Colorado, USA. Profile: Full name, David James Osevwe; traveled to the United States in 1981, 1989 and 1990; visited Denmark, Sweden and Berlin with twelve other Nigerian artists, 1986; founder of Artists Kooperative of Nigeria, Oshogbo. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions Goethe Institute, Lagos, September 17-25, 1975. Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1982. Group Exhibitions World Arts Exhibition, Capri, Italy, 1967. FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8216;Twenty Years of Oshogbo Art,&#8221; Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1980. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October 1, 1980. Oyo State Arts Festival, Oyo, 1982. &#8220;De Goden Zijn Niet Dood,&#8221; Provinciehuis, Zwolle, The Netherlands, Feburary 5-March 5, 1982. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; Lugard Hall, Kaduna, September 26-October 1, 1985. &#8220;Nigerian Art: Outstanding Work from Oshogbo,&#8221; Africa Centre, London, 1988. &#8220;Vision for Excellence,&#8221; Home Design Centre, Lagos, December 16-23, 1989. &#8220;Art for Life,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, April 19-30, 1990. Awards &#038; Honors Third prize, World Arts Exhibition, Capri, Italy, 1967. Public Collections Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. CFAO, Lagos. Goethe Institute, Lagos. Howard University, Washington, DC. Lagos State Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Lagos. National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Lagos. National Museum, Lagos. Telluride Art Council, Telluride, Colorado, USA. University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies, Ibadan. University of Lagos, Lagos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10264","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}