{"id":6288,"date":"2016-11-11T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6288"},"modified":"2017-04-11T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:37:41","slug":"odion-amos","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/odion-amos\/","title":{"rendered":"ODION Amos"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Birth: 1943, in Benin City, Edo State. Training: Apprenticed to Ben Aye, Felix Idubor and Erhabor Emokpae; studied art for four years, Yaba College of Technology. Profile: Worked in Felix Idubor&#8217;s studio, Lagos; freelance artist; works mostly in hard wood. Solo Exhibitions &#8220;An Exhibition of Sculptures by Amos Odion,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, August 3- 16, 1984. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian PlasticArt Exhibition,&#8221; Fourth National Arts Festival, Lagos State Cultural Centre, Lagos, 1974. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, October 2-9, 1976. FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 4-9, 1977. Fourth Indian Triennial of Contemporary World Art, New Delhi, India, 1978. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Traditional and Contemporary Art,&#8221; Lagos, 1978. Nigerian Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1979. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October 1, 1980. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Dakar, Senegal, November 25- December 7, 1980. &#8220;Ausstellung Nigerianische Kunst der Gegenwart,&#8221; Bonn, Germany, August 9-18, 1982. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Contemporary Art,&#8221; Islamabad, Pakistan, 1983. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 26- October 1, 1985. Public Collections Federal Ministry of Information, Cultural Division, Lagos. Ebony sculptures: &#8220;Mask,&#8221; &#8220;Surrender,&#8221; &#8220;Gentleman,&#8221; and &#8220;Portrait of a Girl&#8221;; wood sculptures: &#8220;Young Woman&#8221; and &#8220;Mother and Child.&#8221; National Galleryof Modern Art, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Masquerade,&#8221; &#8220;Surrendered Woman,&#8221; &#8220;Olokun Goddess,&#8221; and &#8220;Restingon Three Pillars.&#8221; Bibliography An Exhibition ofSculptures by Amos Odion; [held at the National Theatre, Lagos, August 3-16, 1984]. Lagos: National Gallery of Modern Art, Federal Department of Culture, [1984]. unpaged, illus., port. See also references: 132, 184, 193, 231, 245-247, 249, 267-268, 275, 284, 294. Information not verified by the artist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6288","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6288","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6288\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}