{"id":15340,"date":"2017-03-14T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T09:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15340"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:48:19","slug":"ajiboye-josy","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ajiboye-josy\/","title":{"rendered":"AJIBOYE, Josy"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Daily Times, PMB21340, Ikeja, Lagos. Birth: In Erinmope Ekiti, Kwara State. Training: Studied commercial art, illustration and painting at Yaba College of Technology. Profile: Worked at African Challenge Publications and other Sudan Interior Mission Publications until 1968;cartoonist, Sunday Post, Lagos; editorialillustrator, Morning Post, Lagos; group art editor, Daily Times, Lagos, from 1971; illustratedmany educational books and novels. Solo Exhibitions Gong Gallery, Lagos, 1977. French Cultural Centre, Lagos, 1979. University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1981. &#8220;Exhibition of Paintingsand DrawingsbyJosyAjiboye,&#8221; NationalMuseum, Lagos, October 16-October 31, 1981. &#8220;Exhibitionof Paintings and Drawings byJosyAjiboye,&#8221;National Museum, Lagos, May 24-June 7, 1983. National Museum, BeninCity, August 25,1983. [traveled to Jos]. &#8220;People and Places,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, August 28, 1987. Group Exhibitions &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 30-October 7, 1978. &#8220;Exhibitionof Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Dakar, Senegal, November 25December 7, 1980. &#8220;Society of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; Goethe Institute, Lagos, February 1981. &#8220;Ausstellung Nigerianische Kunst der Gegenwart,&#8221; Bonn, Germany, August 9-18, 1982. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 26October 1, 1985. &#8220;Man in Focus,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 20, 1985-January 10, 1986. Public Collections Didi Museum, Lagos. National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Oil paintings: &#8220;The Mask and the Ivory,&#8221; &#8220;Fulani Shepherd Boy with Calf,&#8221; and &#8220;Fulani Shepherd Boy with Flute.&#8221; Bibliography Omoruyi, Aghama. &#8220;Mr. Josy Ajiboye Art Exhibition,&#8221; Benin Series: A New Dimension in Benin Studies (Benin City), second edition: 69-70, [1983]. Adepegba, C. A. &#8220;Roots in Traditions: Contemporary Arts with Obvious Traits of Traditional Forms,&#8221; Abinibi (Lagos) 2 (3):9-12, July-September 1987. illus. Akinosho, Toyin. &#8220;Josy Ajiboye: Beyond the Easy Art,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) August 1987. port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15340","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15340","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\/15340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15340"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}