{"id":18694,"date":"2017-03-31T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18694"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:55:56","slug":"akinbolaji-yisa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/akinbolaji-yisa\/","title":{"rendered":"AKINBOLAJI, Yisa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 14 Bakare Makinde Street, Oso-Ogun Alapare Ketu, Lagos. Birth: October 18, 1960, in Ondo, Ondo State. Training: OND, 1983and HND, YabaCollege of Technology, 1986, specializing in painting. Profile: Full name, YisaFolasele Akinbolaji; employed, Kolografiks Studio, Lagos, 1982;NYSC, Cross River Television Authority, Uyo, 1987;teacher, Lagos State Model College, Badore, Lagos, from 1988; part-time lecturer in arts, Lagos State University, College of Education, Ojo, Lagos State; produced seasonal greeting cards, book covers, posters and illustrations, from 1988. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Solution,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, September24-October 8, 1984. Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, March 2-16, 1985. &#8220;Prime Message,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, September 28-October 12, 1988. &#8220;Norms, Forms &#038; Actions,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, November 24-30, 1990. Group Exhibitions NYSC Exhibition, National Theatre, Lagos, December 5, 1986. University of Cross River State, Uyo, April 30-May8, 1987. &#8220;Reflections: An Art Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 16-30, 1988. &#8220;Creative Dialogue: SNA at 25,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, November 27-December 10, 1989. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 29-October 13, 1990. Commissions Mural, &#8220;The MediaCrew,&#8221; Akwa IbomStateBroadcasting Corporation, Uyo, 1987. Mural, Cross RiverTelevision Authority, Uyo, 1987. Awards &#038; Honors National Painting Competition award, organized by MobilProducing, Nigeria, 1983; NYSC Cross River State Chairman&#8217;s Honours Award, 1987. Bibliography Prime Message: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Yisa Akinbolaji; [exhibition held at the National Museum, Lagos, September 28-October 12, 1988] \/ foreword by Martins Akanbiemu;introduction by Yisa Akinbolaji. [Lagos: s.l., 1988]. 12pp. illus. Norms, Forms &#038;Actions: An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Yisa Akinbolaji; [held at the National Museum, Lagos, November24-30, 1990]. [Lagos: Akinbolaji, 1990]. 23pp. illus. Reviewed: Kodilinye Obiagwu, &#8220;Artists&#8217; Works Now Attract Dollars,&#8221; Business Times (Lagos) December10, 1990, page 20;Aloy Ibeabuchi, &#8220;Akinbolaji&#8217;sNorms, Forms&#038;Actions,&#8221; Lagos Weekend (Lagos) December 14, 1990, page 8; &#8220;A Visualisation of Culture,&#8221; Quality (Lagos) December27, 1990, page 38;&#8221;CreatingAwareness,&#8221; Times International (Lagos) December 24, 1990, page 35].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18694","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18694","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18694"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}