{"id":19046,"date":"2017-04-06T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=19046"},"modified":"2017-04-20T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T07:36:36","slug":"famous-tunde","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/famous-tunde\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMOUS, Tunde"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 125St. Catherine Street, Natchez, Mississippi 39120,USA. Birth: June 11, 1959, in Ikorodu, Lagos State. Training: Studied commercial art, London Educational Association, London; HND in graphic arts, Yaba Collegeof Technology, 1983; MA in art education, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, 1988. Profile: Full name, Tunde Famous Afolayan; professional name, Tunde Famous; illustrator, Ikere Ekiti; teacher, Government Teachers College, Ikorodu, Lagos, 1984-1990; part-time graphic design teacher, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, 1985-1986; artist-in-residence, Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, Port Gibson, Mississippi, USA, from 1990.Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Portraits of a Time,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, May 19-26, 1990. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Offerings from the Gods,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos,June-July1985. &#8220;Symbolic Images,&#8221;Brady Gallery, Columbia, Missouri, USA, April 25-May 3, 1986. &#8220;Peopleand Feelings,&#8221; Eagle House, Marina, Lagos, August28-September 16, 1986. &#8220;Creative Dialogue:SNAat 25,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos,November 27-December 10, 1989. Society of American Women Exhibition, Lagos, March 1990. Awards &#038; Honors First prize, national painting competition, sponsored by Premier Breweries, 1981; third prize, national painting competition, sponsored by Mobil, 1983; national award forposter designcompetition byNational Committee for Action Against Apartheid, 1983; Dotun Okubanjo &#038;Associates,Lagos, PSNaward, best student in Department of Graphic Arts, Yaba CollegeofTechnology, 1983. Public Collections University of Missouri, Department of Fine Arts, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Bibliography Olanipekun, Tunde. &#8220;National Oil Fuel Hows for Young Painters,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) August 9, 1986, page 12. Olanipekun, Tunde. &#8220;People and FeelingsTurns out N18,000for Artists,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) September 20, 1986. Olanipekun, Tunde. &#8220;A Portrait of Life,Livingand Essence,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) May 11, 1990. Portraits ofa Time: An Exhibition of Recent Works by Tunde Famous Jr.; [held at the National Museum, Lagos,May19-26, 1990] \/ foreword by DeleJegede. [Lagos: La&#8217;Tuns &#038; Associates, 1990]. [folder], illus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-19046","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/19046","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\/19046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19046"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=19046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}