{"id":19052,"date":"2017-04-06T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=19052"},"modified":"2017-05-19T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:41:31","slug":"olanipekun-tunde","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olanipekun-tunde\/","title":{"rendered":"OLANIPEKUN, Tunde"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter Address: Baffles Art Gallery, 24A Oyegunwa Street, Alasia, Ladipo Estate, Ikeja, Lagos. Birth: August 1, 1957, in Iyin Ekiti, Ondo State. Training: OND, 1981 and HND, 1984, Yaba College of Technology. 386 Olanipekun Profile: Full name, Babatunde Olanipekun; employed, West African Examinations Council, Lagos, and the Nigerian Televsion Authority, Akure; graphic designer\/art critic, Guardian Newspapers, Lagos; public relations officer, Society of Nigerian Artists, Lagos State Chapter; art columnist, Evening Times, Lagos; director, Baffles Art Gallery, Lagos. Member: Sodety of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;Impressions,&#8221; Assodated Ore Mining Company, Okene, May 1985. &#8220;Genesis,&#8221; Kwara State Coundl for Arts &#038; Culture, Ilorin, July 1985. Group Exhibitions National Gallery for Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, 1985. &#8220;Lagos Expo &#8217;86 Trade Fair,&#8221; Ocean View Plaza, Lagos, 1986. World Trade Fair, Barcelona, Spain, July 1986. El Ferolint Trade Fair, La Coruna, Spain, August 1986. &#8220;Sinsemillia Art Expo,&#8221; Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, September 18-20, 1986. &#8220;Exhibition of Wood Carvings, Stone Carvings &#038; Paintings,&#8221; National Gallery of Crafts &#038; Design, Lagos, January 22-February 7, 1987. &#8220;Towards a Greater Nation,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, December 5-19, 1987. &#8220;Echoes of Our Past,&#8221; Sinsemillia Art Expo, Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, September 1987. &#8220;Manifestations,&#8221; National Oil and Chemical Company, Lagos, November 1987. National Museum, Lagos, February 1988. &#8220;Reflections: An Art Exhibition of the Sodety of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 16-30, 1988. &#8220;Hilton Art Expo,&#8221; Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel, Abuja, May-June1989. World Festival of Youth Art, Bulgaria, 1989. &#8220;A Visual Experience,&#8221; Flower Blossom Exhibition, Lagos, 1989. Exhibition of Art Works, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, 1989. Exhibition of Young Artists, Jazz 38, Lagos, 1989. &#8220;Creative Dialogue: SNAat 25,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, November27-December 10, 1989. Sodety of American Women Exhibition, Lagos, March 1990. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos, September 29- October 13, 1990. &#8220;Tonic Embrace,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, October 6-18, 1990. Ninth National Festival of Arts and Culture, Kaduna, December 13-19, 1990. Writings by the Artist &#8220;National Oil Fuel Flows for Young Painters,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) August 9, 1986. &#8220;People and Feelings Turn out N18,000 for Artists,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) September 20, 1986. &#8220;Kiddies go to the Roots. . . to Prove a Point,&#8221; Guardian Express (Lagos) Thursday, March 5, 1987. &#8220;Bisi Fakeye: Out to be Different,&#8221; The Guardian (Lagos) September 10, 1988, page &#8220;Ezeudu Provokes Thoughts Through &#8216;Mind&#8217;s Eye&#8217;,&#8221; Lagos Life (Lagos) January 5-January 11, 1989. &#8220;New Style of Sales for Arts,&#8221; Lagos Life (Lagos) April 20-April 26, 1989, page 7. &#8220;Close-up on Bunmi,&#8221; [Bunmi Babatunde]. Evening Times (Lagos) November 8, 1990, page 2. &#8220;The Girls Are Coming,&#8221; Evening Times (Lagos) November22, 1990. Olaniyi 387 Awards &#038; Honors Kwara State National Youth Service Corps Award for Distinguished Corpers, 1984- 1985. Public Collections National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-19052","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/19052","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\/19052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}