{"id":12615,"date":"2017-02-28T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12615"},"modified":"2017-04-11T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:02:50","slug":"adamson-kenny","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/adamson-kenny\/","title":{"rendered":"ADAMSON Kenny"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 7 Majaro Street, Onike-Yaba, Lagos. Birth: October 24, 1951 in Lagos, Lagos State. Training: OND and HND, Yaba College of Technology, 1977. Profile: Chief cartoonist, Punch, Lagos, 1972-1979; chief cartoonist, Vanguard and Sunday Vanguard, Lagos, 1983-1988; freelance artist working independently on commissions. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Give a Little, Take a Little,&#8221; Didi Museum, Lagos, March 1-10, 1990. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Kenny Adamson and Adamu Ajunam,&#8221; Didi Museum, Lagos, March 1983. French Embassy, Lagos, 1983. &#8220;Art for VIPs,&#8221; British Caledonian VIP Lounge, Gatwick Airport, London, October 1-31, 1985. Commissions VIPLounge and Arrivaland Departure Lounges, Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, 1979-1981. Mural, &#8220;Portrait of Time,&#8221; Didi Museum, Lagos, 1983. &#8220;The Canal,&#8221; Vanguard Media, Lagos, 1985. &#8220;Echo Across Waves,&#8221; Communications Headquarters, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1987. External wall relief, Didi Museum, Lagos, 1989. Wood sculpture, Commerce Bank, Lagos, 1989-1990. Bibliography Emi, Roderick Ado. The Newspaper Cartoonsof Kenny Adams. BA thesis, Universityof Ife, Ile-Ife, 1980. [unpublished]. &#8220;Art for VIP&#8217;s&#8221; [review of an exhibition of the Didi Museum collection, Lagos, held at the BritishCaledonian VIP Lounge, Gatwick Airport, London, October 1-31, 1985. West Africa (London) no. 3556: 2237, October 21, 1985. Give a Little Takea Little; [exhibition held at the Didi Museum, Lagos, March 1-10, 1990] \/ introduction by Muyiwa Adetiba. [Lagos: Didi Museum, 1990]. 19pp. illus. (some color). Reviewed: Michael Oji, &#8220;Kenny Adamson&#8217;s Growing Perception of Life,&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) March 22, 1990, page 9; Chinwe Uwatse, &#8220;Making Waves in Art,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos)April 1, 1990, page B8. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12615","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12615","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\/12615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}