{"id":6400,"date":"2016-11-14T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6400"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T13:57:53","slug":"efionayi-anthony","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/efionayi-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"EFIONAYI, Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Birth: [ca.1927], in Benin City, Edo State. Training: Learned bronze casting from his grandfather; otherwise, self-taught. Profile: Executed many commissioned works, both in Nigeria and abroad. Solo Exhibitions Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, 1984. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Sculpture on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the University of Ife,&#8221; Ile-Ife, September-October 1973. University of Lagos, Lagos, 1974. &#8220;Ausstellung Nigerianische Kunst der Gegenwart,&#8221; Bonn, Germany, August 9-18, 1982. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Sculptures,&#8221; University of Ife, Ile-Ife, September-October 1983. National Theatre, Lagos, 1984. &#8220;Silver Jubilee National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 26- October 1, 1985. &#8220;Wooden Sculptures by Anthony O. Efionayi and Drawings by Tijani Mayakiri,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, June 1987. Awards &#038; Honors Second prize, First Annual Inter-Club Festival Competition of Art, Benin City, 1962. Public Collections National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Igue Festival&#8221; and &#8220;Gong Dancer.&#8221; Bibliography Catalogue; [exhibition of Anthony Efionayi, Lamidi Fakeye, Isiaka Osunde and Abayomi Barber held at the University of Lagos, 1974] \/ essay by Abayomi Barber; [sponsored by the Faculty of Art, University of Lagos, Lagos. Lagos: s.n., 1974]. 13pp. An Exhibition of Wooden Sculptures by Anthony O. Efionayi and Drawings by Tijani Mayakiri; [held at the Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, June 1987]. Lagos: Italian Cultural Institute, 1987. 16pp. illus. See also references: 132, 231, 239, 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-6400","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6400","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\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19371,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6400\/revisions\/19371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}