{"id":15337,"date":"2017-03-14T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15337"},"modified":"2017-05-25T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:33:48","slug":"onemu-josiah","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onemu-josiah\/","title":{"rendered":"ONEMU, Josiah"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter, Sculptor Address: Department of Fine Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State. Birth: March 29, 1945, in Irri, Isoko Local Government Area, Delta State. Training: Attended Yaba College of Technology, 1962-1964; studied at Akademie of Fine Art, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1967-1969; BA, MA and postgraduate certificate, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria. Profile: Lecturer, Department of Creative Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, where he established the sculpture section in 1977; works in polyester. Member: Sodety of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Manquets,&#8221; National Theafre, Lagos, October 22-November4, 1982. Group Exhibitions &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October 1, 1980. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 26- October 1, 1985. Commissions Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Trophy, Sports Complex, University of Benin, Benin City. Awards &#038; Honors Talent Award, Hochshule fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1971-1972; Theodor Koerner National Prize in fine arts, Austria, 1977. Public Collections Gong Gallery, Lagos. National Council for Arts &#038;Culture, Lagos. National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Polyester and fiberglass sculpture: &#8220;Metamorphosis of Death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15337","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15337","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}