{"id":12889,"date":"2017-02-28T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12889"},"modified":"2017-04-20T05:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T04:43:42","slug":"otun-idowu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/otun-idowu\/","title":{"rendered":"OTUN, Idowu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter, Sculptor Address: National Council for Art &#038; Culture, PO Box 2959, Surulere, Lagos. Birth: September 23, 1956, in Ile-Ife, Oshun State. Training: BA in fine arts, University of Ife, 1980; MA in visual arts, University of Ibadan, 1987. Profile: Education officer, Ministry of Education, Ibadan, 1981; cultural officer, Oyo State Council for Arts &#038; Culture, 1981-1987; visual arts officer, National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Lagos, from 1988; an exponent of Onaism. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Reminiscences,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, June 2-13, 1990. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Exhibition of African Paintings,&#8221; World Intellectual Property Organization Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 1986. &#8220;Reflections: An Art Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 16-30, 1988. &#8220;African Development Bank 25th Anniversary Exhibition,&#8221; Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel, Abuja, April-May 1989. &#8220;Creative Dialogue: SNA at 25,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, November 27-December 10, 1989. &#8220;Valley of Decision,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, December 2-14, 1989. &#8220;First Art Exhibition,&#8221; Calabash, Lagos, October 27-28, 1990. &#8220;Ona 2: Radiance of Rhythms,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, September 28-October 5, 1990. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 29-October 13, 1990. Commissions Paintings, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja. Public Collections African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d&#8217;lvoire. Japanese Embassy, Lagos. Oyo State Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Ibadan. United Bank of Africa, Lagos. United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland. World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12889","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12889","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19519,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12889\/revisions\/19519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12889"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}