{"id":12869,"date":"2017-02-28T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12869"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:27:41","slug":"olu-olayemi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olu-olayemi\/","title":{"rendered":"OLAYEMI, Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic Artist, Painter Address: Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Ibukun, PO Box 552, Iloro, Ile-Ife, Oshun State. Birth: October 27, 1947, in Maguashe, Ghana. Training: Department of Fine Arts, Yaba College of Technology; partidpated in Ori-Olokun workshops, Ile-Ife, 1969 and 1970, under the directorship of S. Irein Wangboje. Profile: Paints in bright colors, outlining his forms like the shapes in a stained glass window. Solo Exhibitions Ori-Olokun Cultural Centre, Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1969. Kongo Sodal Club, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, January 1974. Senior Staff Club, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 1975. British Council, Ibadan, August 18-28, 1975. National Museum, Jos, 1976. British Coundl, Kaduna, September 21-28, 1977. Group Exhibitions Ori-Olokun Group Exhibition, Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, December 1969. Ori-Olokun Artists, USIS, Ibadan, 1970. &#8220;Visions of Africa,&#8221; Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, May 12-23, 1975. Two Ori-Olokun Artists, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, November 1980. Alliance Francaise, Ibadan, 1986. &#8220;Ife Group of Artists,&#8221; French Cultural Centre, Lagos, May 1987. &#8220;25th Anniversaryof Obafemi Awolowo University,&#8221; Ori-Olokun Group of Artists Exhibition, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, December 1987. &#8220;Ori-Olokun Art Exhibition: In Honour of Late Michael Crowder,&#8221; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1988. &#8220;IfeGroup of Artists,&#8221; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, May 1988. Two-Man Exhibition, USIS, Ibadan, December 5-16, 1988. Veneroni Fobio Gattobar Gallery, Lome, Togo, 1989. Public Collections Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt, Germany. Oil painting: &#8220;An Owl&#8221;; print: &#8220;The Mourners.&#8221; State House, Lagos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12869","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12869","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}