{"id":16838,"date":"2017-03-21T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16838"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:27:42","slug":"agbetuyi-simeon","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/agbetuyi-simeon\/","title":{"rendered":"AGBETUYI, Simeon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Centre forCulturalStudies, Universityof Lagos, Lagos. Birth: 1951, in Iludun-Ekiti, Ondo State. Training: Apprenticed to BamideleAreogun, a Yoruba master sculptor, 1966-1971. Profile:Fullname, SimeonSunday Agbetuyi;works at Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Lagos; trains his own apprentices. Solo Exhibitions Goethe Institute, Lagos, December 11-24, 1974. &#8220;Exhibition ofTraditionalCarvings,&#8221; NationalTheatre, May6-19, 1983. Group Exhibitions &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos,October 2-9, 1976. FESTAC&#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Exhibitionof Worksby Contemporary NigerianArtists,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos, September4-9, 1977. &#8220;Exhibitionof Nigerian Traditionaland Contemporary Art,&#8221; Lagos, 1978 &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 30-October7, 1978. Indian-Triennial Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India, 1980. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October1, 1980. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Dakar, Senegal, November 25December 7, 1980. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos,September 26-October5, 1983. &#8220;SilverJubileeNational Art Exhibition,&#8221;NationalTheatre, Lagos,September 26October 1, 1985. &#8220;Art by Metamorphosis: Selectionsof African Art from the Spelman College Collection,&#8221; Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 3-December18, 1988. Public Collections Federal Ministry of Information, Lagos. Wood,iroko, sculptures: &#8220;Olokun,&#8221; &#8220;Sacrifice,&#8221; and &#8220;Horseman.&#8221; National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Horseman,&#8221; &#8220;Yoruba Chief on Horseback,&#8221; &#8220;Babalawo &#038; Worshipper,&#8221; and &#8220;Esu Flutist.&#8221; Spelman College, Atlanta, USA. Wood sculpture: &#8220;Esu.&#8221; Bibliography Exhibition ofTraditional Carvings by Simeon S. Agbetuyi; [heldatthe NationalTheatre, Lagos, May 6-9, 1983] \/ sponsored by the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. [Lagos: s.n., 1983]. [3]pp. illus. Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) 148:65, 1984.[illus. only]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16838","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16838","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19204,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16838\/revisions\/19204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16838"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}