{"id":7436,"date":"2017-01-10T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7436"},"modified":"2017-11-30T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:48:36","slug":"billy-omabegho","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/billy-omabegho\/","title":{"rendered":"OMABEGHO, Billy"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sculptor Address: 2A Waring Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; 64 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012, USA. Birth: February 8, 1944, in Warri, Delta State. Training: BA in fine art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1967; MA, New York University, New York, USA, 1969. Profile: Lecturer in art, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, USA, 1970-1975; part-time lecturer in art, New York University, New York, USA, 1972-1973; prindpal exhibition officer, FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977; freelance artist, Lagos and New York, USA; fabricates totemic sculpture out of plexiglass and makes plastic furniture; authorized by Nigerian Federal Board of Monuments and Antiquities to reproduce selected pieces from the exhibition, &#8220;The Treasures of Andent Nigeria,&#8221; in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Solo Exhibitions Artist&#8217;s Space Gallery, New York City, 1974. &#8220;Billy Omabegho, Exhibition of Sculptures,&#8221; National Museum, Lagos, January- February 1975. &#8220;Art and Design: Sculptures and Furniture,&#8221; French Cultural Centre, Lagos, November-December 1980. Group Exhibitions Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, USA, 1971. FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 25-October 1, 1980. Commissions Sculpture, stainless steel, &#8220;Convergence,&#8221; State House, Marina, Lagos, 1975. Sculpture, stainless steel, &#8220;Ramat,&#8221; memorial to Murtala Ramat Mohammed, Benin City, 1977. Sculpture, stainless steel, symbol for Lagos International Trade Fair, 1978. Sculpture, brass, &#8220;Communication,&#8221; Nigerian External Telecommunications, Necom House, Lagos, 1979. Sculpture, stainless steel, symbol for Delta Steel, Aladja, Warri, 1981. Sculpture, corten steel, &#8220;Modular Man,&#8221; Ministry of Works, Lagos, 1982. Public Collections Council House, Johnson Wax Company, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Metal sculpture: &#8220;Two People Communicating.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7436","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7436","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}