{"id":17757,"date":"2017-03-27T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17757"},"modified":"2017-11-23T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:24:32","slug":"onyia-livinus-nnaedizie","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onyia-livinus-nnaedizie\/","title":{"rendered":"ONYIA, Livinus"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist, Painter Address: PO Box 60445, Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi, Lagos. Birth: March 31, 1962, in Enugu, Enugu State. Training: BA in fine arts, Ahmadu Bello University, 1986, specializing in painting and graphic design. Profile: Full name, Livinus Nnaedizie Onyia; draftsman, Conserve Nigeria, Minna, 1981; liaison office and art editor, NYSC, Imo State Corpers Magazine, 1986-1987; freelance art instructor, Owerri, 1987; graphic artist, Government Press, Owerri, 1988; employed, Public Enlightenment Division, Federal Ministry of Information, Lagos, from 1988. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;TheCall,&#8221; Alvin Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, September 14-17, 1986. &#8220;Man and Nature I,&#8221; Ohafia, June 10-17, 1987. &#8220;Man and Nature II,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September1-15, 1990. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Zaria &#8217;86,&#8221; Kashim Ibrahim Library, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, August 10- 17, 1986. NYSC Exhibition, National Theatre, Lagos, December 11-13, 1986. &#8220;Evolution I,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, March 17-April 1, 1989. &#8220;African Development Bank 25th Anniversary Exhibition,&#8221; Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel, Abuja, April-May 1989. &#8220;Furniture and Interior Decoration, Textile Design and Fabrics, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, June 10-17, 1989. &#8220;Meeting Point,&#8221; Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, February 1990. Commissions Eight paintings, mixed media, Industrial Merchants Bank, Lagos, 1989. Two paintings, oilon canvas, Mercy Specialist Clinic, Lagos, 1989. Six paintings, oil on canvas\/board, Century Merchant Bank, Lagos, 1990. Paintings, card illustrations, Federal Ministry ofMines, Power &#038;Steel, Lagos, 1990. Twopaintings, oilon canvas, Federal Palace Hotels, Lagos, 1990. Fourpaintings, acrylic on board, First Interstate Merchant Bank, Lagos, 1990. Sixteen paintings, mixed media, Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, Laeos, 1990. Awards &#038; Honors Imo State NYSC merit award, 1987; National NYSC honors award, 1987. Public Collections Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Oil paintings on canvas: &#8220;Zaria Riot,&#8221; &#8220;Shano,&#8221; and &#8220;Labour,&#8221; 1986. National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Oil painting on board: &#8220;Lagos,&#8221; 1990; mixed media painting, &#8220;Our Roots,&#8221; 1990. Ohafia Local Government Secretariat, Ohafia. Oil paintings on board: &#8220;Harvest&#8221; and &#8220;Ohafia,&#8221; 1987; mixed media painting: &#8220;Masks,&#8221; 1987. Bibliography Evolution 1: An Exhibition ofPaintings and Drawings byLivi Onyia and Abraham Uyovbisere; [exhibition held at the National Museum, Lagos, March 17-April 1, 1989]. Lagos: Livi Onyia and Abraham Uyovbisere, 1989. 16pp. illus. Reviewed: Humphrey Bekaren, &#8220;An Evolutionary Outing,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) March 17, 1989; &#8220;Evolution I:A Veritable Treasure Trove,&#8221; Vanguard (Lagos) March 23, 1989, page 9; Femi Akintunde-Johnson, &#8220;Rhythm of Colours at the Museum,&#8221; The Punch (Lagos) March 24, 1989, page 6; Adamson Momoh, &#8220;Impressions on Evolution,&#8221; Daily Times (Lagos) March 25, 1989, page 17; Kodilinye Obiagwu, &#8220;Debut of Two Experimentalists,&#8221; Sunday Times (Lagos) April 9, 1989, page 16. Tadaferua, Kenneth. &#8220;Recreating Culture,&#8221; [review of the exhibition &#8220;Furniture and Interior Decoration, Textile Design and Fabrics, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings&#8221; held at the National Museum, Lagos, June 10-17, 1989]. ThisWeek (Lagos) no. 132: 41, July 3, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17757","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17757","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}