{"id":15562,"date":"2017-03-14T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15562"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:15:56","slug":"odeka-innocent","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/odeka-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"ODEKA, Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic Artist, Painter Address: Command Day Secondary School, Ikeja Military Cantonment, Lagos. Birth: June 5, 1956, in Warri, Delta State. Training: OND, 1982 and FIND, 1984, Auchi Polytechnic. Profile: Full name, Innocent &#8216;Tsema Odeka; protocol assistant, Ministry of Social Development, Youth, Sports &#038; Culture, Lagos, 1979-1980; creative and finish artist, C. S. S. Press, Lagos, 1982; head, fine arts, Command Day Secondary School, Lagos. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8216;This Time Tomorrow,&#8221; Soviet Cultural Centre, Lagos, August 18-28, 1990. Group Exhibitions NYSCExhibition, National Museum, Lagos, June 25-July6, 1985. &#8216;Towards a Greater Nation,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, December 5-19, 1987. &#8220;Bridge Africana,&#8221; Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Lagos, Lagos, December 9-22, 1987. &#8220;Effective Art &#8217;88,&#8221; Automated Business Centre, Lagos, 1988. &#8220;Voyage &#8217;89,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, 1989. &#8216;The Way We Are: Legends, Communication,&#8221; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, 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;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September29- October 13, 1990. Commissions Designs used for UNICEF cards, 1986. Bibliography Usen, Anietie. &#8220;Dynamic Flashes of Creativity,&#8221; Newswatch (Lagos) August 26, 1985, page 36. illus. &#8216;Mofe-Damijo, Richard. &#8220;A Triumph Debut,&#8221; Metro Magazine (Lagos) September 1985. Lardner, Tunji, &#038; Toyin Akinosho. &#8220;Expression and a New Beat,&#8221; ThisWeek (Lagos) February 9, 1987, page 32. This Time Tomorrow: An Exhibition of Paintings and Water Colours by Odeka Innocent; [held at the Soviet Cultural Centre, Lagos, August 18-28, 1990]. Lagos: Soviet Cultural Centre, 1990. 12pp. illus., port. Reviewed:Sam Egburoau, &#8220;This Time Tomorrow,&#8221; ThisWeek (Lagos) October 1, 1990,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15562","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15562","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\/15562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19726,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15562\/revisions\/19726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15562"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}