{"id":18886,"date":"2017-03-31T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18886"},"modified":"2017-11-14T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:45:41","slug":"ojomo-tayo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ojomo-tayo\/","title":{"rendered":"OJOMO, Tayo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter Address: 2159 Elkins Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19144, USA. Birth: August 5, 1944, in Owo, Ondo State. Training: Diploma in fine art, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, 1967; BS in environmental design, Philadelphia College of Art, 1974; BAin architecture, Drexel University, Philadelphia, 1980; spent a year at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and a semester at Cooper Union, New York, USA. Profile: Full name, Ibitayo Ademola Ojomo; architectural delineator, Lagos Executive Development Board, Lagos, 1967-1970; store planner\/ interior architect, John Wanamaker Stores, Philadelphia, 1974-1977; architect, Ueland and Junker Architects, Brown Sullivan Arfaa Architects, H 2L2 Architects and Planners, John Di-Bennedeto Architects, all in Philadelphia, 1978-1981; lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, from 1982; artistically influenced by Yusuf Grillo; paints in pastel shades; an exponent of Onaism. Group Exhibitions Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture, 40th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, April 12-May11, 1980. &#8220;Expressions &#8217;80: A Festival of Black and Hispanic Arts,&#8221; Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, USA, June 27-29, 1980. &#8220;Expressions &#8217;81: A Festival of Black and Hispanic Arts,&#8221; Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, July 10-17, 1981. &#8220;Pushing the Limits of Vision: Select Paintings and Drawings,&#8221; Lagos, September 6-9, 1989. &#8220;1990 Exhibition of Contemporary Yoruba Art,&#8221; School of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, April 24-29, 1990. &#8220;Ona 2: Radiance of Rhythms,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, September 28-October 5, 1990. Awards &#038; Honors Lintas award for art, 1965; Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1970. Bibliography Pushing the Limits of Vision: Select Paintings and Drawings by Campbell, Filani, Ojomo, Okediji, Uwechia and Wewe; [exhibition held in Lagos, September 6-9, 1989]. Lagos: Zegu, 1989. 32pp. illus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18886","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18886","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22900,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18886\/revisions\/22900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}