{"id":16079,"date":"2017-03-16T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16079"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:20:58","slug":"essien-nsikak","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/essien-nsikak\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSIEN Nsikak"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter, Sculptor Address: Department of Fine &#038; Applied Arts, Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Enugu State. Birth: December 20, 1957, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Training: OND and HND, Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, 1979. Profile: Teacher, Department of Fine &#038;Applied Arts, Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, from 1979. Member: AKA Circle of Exhibiting Artists; Arts Council of the African Studies Association. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Me, Myself,&#8221; Enugu, 1981. Group Exhibitions &#8220;20th Nigerian Independence Anniversary Exhibition of Art, Crafts and Antiquities,&#8221; Enugu, September 1980. &#8220;AKA &#8217;86,&#8221; French Cultural Centre, Enugu, April 14-20, 1986; Franco-German Exhibition Hall, Lagos, May 14-31, 1986. &#8220;Nigerian-German Prints,&#8221; Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, October 1986; Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, November 5-19, 1986. &#8220;AKA &#8217;87,&#8221; Hotel Presidential, Enugu, April 23-May25, 1987; National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, July 2-16, 1987. &#8220;AKA &#8217;88,&#8221; Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Centre, Enugu, April 28-30, 1988; Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, May 16-30, 1988; National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, June 9-23,1988. &#8220;AKA &#8217;89,&#8221; Hotel Presidential, Enugu, April 19-21, 1989; National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, June 23-July 8, 1989. &#8220;AKA &#8217;90,&#8221; Hotel Presidential, Enugu, April 26-May 18, 1990; Goethe Institute, Lagos, July 4-17, 1990. Commissions Murals, Presidential Guest House, Abuja, 1982. Paintings, &#8220;Nigeriana,&#8221; &#8220;Durbar,&#8221; &#8220;Buguma,&#8221; &#8220;Aisha,&#8221; &#8220;Awojeman,&#8221; and &#8220;Ugbo Player,&#8221; VIP Lounge, Enugu Airport, Enugu, 1983. Murals and paintings, National Television Authority, Enugu. Public Collections National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Mixed media: &#8220;Womanhood,&#8221; &#8220;Crucified\/ and &#8220;7 O&#8217;clock News.&#8221; Bibliography See references: 61, 64a, 141, 220-224, 303. Information not verified by the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16079","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16079","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20124,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16079\/revisions\/20124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}