{"id":14395,"date":"2017-03-08T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14395"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:34:29","slug":"osifo-osagie","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/osifo-osagie\/","title":{"rendered":"OSIFO Osagie"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Address: c\/o Powerline Ministries, Ijachatedo, Itire, PO Box 6557, Surulere, Lagos. Birth: 1939, in Idumu-Omwana, near Benin City, Edo State. Training: Lagos City College and Yaba Technical Institute, 1957; received a grant to study and exhibit art in Israel, 1962; studied under his brother Felix Idubor. Profile: Full name, Paul Osagie J. Osifo; brother of Felix Idubor; artist n-residence, Southern Illinois University, Performing Arts Training Center, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA; freelance artist, Lagos; works in wood, plaster, stone, cement and fiberglass. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Exhibition of Sculpture by Paul O.J. Osifo,&#8221; British Council, Ibadan, October 1-9, 1963. &#8220;African Contemporary Sculpture,&#8221; St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 198-? Group Exhibitions &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art,&#8221; Independence Exhibition, Lagos, September 20- October 2, 1960. Harmon Foundation, New York, USA; Hampton University, Virginia, USA, 1961- 1964. &#8220;Kunst aus Zentralafrika,&#8221; Berlin, Bremen, Dortmund, and Darmstadt, Germany, 1960-1961. &#8220;Art from Africa of Our Time&#8221;, Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, USA, December 28, 1961- January 19, 1962. Commonwealth Arts Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1965. Commissions Sculptures, crypt figures, Southwell Church, Nottinghamshire, England. Sculptures, &#8216;The Crucifixion&#8221; and &#8220;The Nativity,&#8221; Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos. Sculpted pillar posts, Queens College, Lagos. Sculpture, &#8220;Madonna,&#8221; St, Paul&#8217;s Church, Ebute Metta, Lagos. Sculpted panel, University Catholic Church, Ibadan. Sculpture, cast cement, figure of an ancient King of Benin, BalfourStreet, Batyam, Israel. Awards &#038; Honors Certificate for carving, Lagos Festival of the Arts, 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14395","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14395","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\/14395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14395"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}