{"id":7415,"date":"2017-01-10T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7415"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:37:24","slug":"bernard-aina","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bernard-aina\/","title":{"rendered":"AINA, Bernard"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 80A Isolo Road, Mushin, Lagos. Birth: July 19, 1952, in Ebute-Metta, Lagos State. Training: ONDin art, 1973 and HNDin sculpture, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, 1975; PGDE, University of Lagos, Lagos, 1978; MEd, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, 1984. Profile: Full name, Bernard Akande Aina; teacher, Lagos State Government College, Ojo, 1975; vice principal, Lagos State Government College, Ojo, 1980; graduate assistant, Universityof Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA, 1983; tutor, International School, Lagos, from 1985. Member: International Association of Artists; Nigerian Societyfor Education Through Art; Society of Nigerian Artists. Group Exhibitions FESTAC&#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 30-October 7, 1978. &#8220;Nigeria&#8217;s Twenty Years of Independence,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos, 1980. Society of Nigerian Artists, Goethe Institute, Lagos, February 1981. National Council for Arts &#038; Culture, Port Harcourt, 1982. &#8220;Offerings from the Gods,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos,June-July1985. &#8216;Towards a Greater Nation,&#8221; Italian Cultural Institute, Lagos, December 5-19, 1987. &#8220;Reflections: An Art Exhibition of the Society of Nigerian Artists,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, December 16-30, 1988. &#8220;Creative Dialogue:SNAat 25,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos, November 27-December 10, 1989. &#8220;Images of the Nigerian Nation,&#8221; NationalTheatre, Lagos, September 29-October 13, 1990. Commissions Fiberglass sculpture, &#8220;Letter K,&#8221; LagosState Ministry of Home Affairsand Tourism, Lagos, 1987. Fiberglass sculpture, &#8220;Chief Kosoko,&#8221; Lagos State Government, Epe, 1990. Metal gate, &#8220;Arrow,&#8221; NAL Merchant Bank, Lagos, 1990. Awards &#038; Honors Lintas Award, 1973; best art student collegeprize, 1973; Fasuyi Award. Public Collections Federal Ministry of Information, Cultural Division, Lagos. Wood, iroko, sculpture: &#8220;Figures.&#8221; National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Fiberglass sculptures: &#8220;Close Up I,&#8221; 1981, and &#8220;Close Up II,&#8221; 1982. Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. Cement sculpture: &#8220;Kwashiorkor,&#8221; 1975. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7415","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7415","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\/7415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23012,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7415\/revisions\/23012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}