{"id":15867,"date":"2017-03-15T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15867"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:08:15","slug":"oguntubi-segun","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oguntubi-segun\/","title":{"rendered":"OGUNTUBI Segun"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Graphic Artist, Painter, Textile Artist Address: PO Box 21250, University of Ibadan Post Office, Ibadan, Oyo State. Birth: August 30, 1957, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Native of Ijebu-Jesha, Ogun State. Training: Yinka Adeyemi Art Studio, Oshogbo, 1972-1974; Ogun Timehin Art Workshop, Ile-Ife, 1974-1975. Profile: Artistic coordinator, Toki Art Centre, Ibadan; musician, dancer and story-teller; produced album jacket for Tunde Odunlade; works in wool, wood and linoleum; creates tapestries, paintings, block prints on cloth, batik, tie-dye, pen and ink on rice paper, mosaic, and relief sculptures. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Coming Out,&#8221; Staff Club, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, 1980. &#8220;Art &#038; The Locality,&#8221; Library, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, 1981. &#8220;The Culture,&#8221; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, 1988. &#8220;Many Suitors,&#8221; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, 1989. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Culture,&#8221; Alliance Francaise, Ibadan, 1986. &#8220;Young Shell,&#8221; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, 1987. &#8220;African Studies Day,&#8221; Institute of African Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1988. &#8220;Uhuru: African and American Art Against Apartheid,&#8221; City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, USA, February 17-March 31, 1988. &#8220;Young Artists 1988,&#8221; Whitney Young Resource Centre, USIS, Lagos, May 7-31, 1988. &#8220;Art for Art&#8217;s Sake,&#8221; Sinsemillia Gallery, Lagos, December 4-22, 1988. &#8220;Exhibition for Selection,&#8221; Alliance Francaise, Ibadan, 1989. &#8220;Giornata Mondiale Dell&#8217;Alimentazione,&#8221; Food &#038; Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy, 1989. &#8220;Nigerian Artists and the French Revolution,&#8221; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, July 7-19, 1989. &#8220;Artists of Africa,&#8221; Tudor Hall, Montreal, Canada, November 29-December 9, 1989. [traveled to Ottawa and Knowlton, Canada, 1989-1990]. Commissions Oil painting on paper, &#8220;Unification,&#8221; Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s lodge, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, 1980. Painting, &#8220;Ostrich,&#8221; Raten Guest House, Ilorin, 1986. Tie-dye blinds, University of Iloringuest house, Ilorin, 1986. Sculpture, mosaic relief, Hilton Hotel, Lagos, 1987. Mother Africa Shrine, Shaka International, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Awards &#038; Honors First prize, &#8220;Exhibition for Selection,&#8221; Alliance Frangaise, Ibadan, 1989; bronze medal, Giornata Mondiale Dell&#8217;Alimentazione, Food &#038; Agriculture Organization, Rome, 1989. Bibliography Scott, Victoria &#038;Victor Davson. Uhuru: African andAmerican Art Against Apartheid; [exhibition held at the City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, USA, February 17-March 31, 1988. Newark, NJ]: City Without Walls, [1988. 12]pp. illus. [None by Oguntubi]. Young Artists: 1988; [exhibition held at the Whitney YoungResource Centre, USIS, Lagos, May 7-31, 1988]. Lagos: Whitney Young Resource Centre, 1988. 12pp. illus. Art for Art&#8217;s Sake: Sinsemillia Gallery Opening Exhibition, 4-22 Dec. 1988. Lagos: Sinsemillia Gallery, 1988. 8pp. illus. [None by Oguntubi]. Artists of Africa; [exhibition held in cooperation with Carleton University and the Canadian Association of African Studies, Tudor Hall, Montreal, Canada, November 29-December 9, 1989. Ottawa: CUSO, 1989]. 18pp. illus. Reviewed: Ann Duncan, &#8220;Third World Will Benefit from African Art Exhibit,&#8221; The Gazette (Montreal) November 29, 1989. &#8220;Segun Oguntubi Drawing to Stardom,&#8221; Evening Sketch (Ibadan) December 29, 1989, page 4. &#8220;Alliance Francaise Makes an Impact in Kaduna,&#8221; The Point (Kaduna) January [?]- February 5, 1990, page 6. Olowolagba, Gbenga. &#8220;Black History Month in Batik,&#8221; Nigerian Tribune (Ibadan) March 6, 1990, page 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15867","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15867","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\/15867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15867"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}