{"id":9281,"date":"2017-02-02T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9281"},"modified":"2017-05-17T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:47:40","slug":"osague-francis","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/osague-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"OSAGUE, Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Address: Federal Ministry of Information &#038; Culture, National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos. Birth: 1941, in Benin City, Edo State. Training: Apprenticed for many years with sculptor Felix Idubor; BA, Academy of Fine Art, Rome, Italy, 1964;MA in fine arts, University of Chicago, USA, 1971. Profile: Art teacher, Edo College, Benin City; assistant lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nsukka; cultural officer, Federal Ministry of Information, Lagos. Member: Society of Nigerian Artists. Solo Exhibitions Stick and Stone Gallery, Chicago, USA, 1969. Wilbur Wright College, City College of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1971. University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 1971. &#8220;An Exhibition of Sculptures by Francis I. Osague,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, June 1-14, 1984. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art,&#8221; Independence Exhibition, Lagos, September 20- October 2, 1960. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Sculpture on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the University of Ife,&#8221; University of Ife, Ile-Ife, September-October 1973. &#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. &#8220;Exhibition of Nigerian Traditional and Contemporary Art,&#8221; Lagos, 1978. &#8220;National Art Exhibition,&#8221; National Theatre, Lagos, September 30-October 7, 1978. &#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. Society of Nigerian Artists, Goethe Institute, Lagos, February 1981. &#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; Federal University of Technology, Owerri, September 26-October 1, 1985. Commissions Sculpture, wood panels, Conference Banquet Hall, National Theatre, Lagos. Sculpture, Christ on the Cross\/Disciples, Baptist Church, Surulere, Lagos. Sculpture, &#8220;Passion,&#8221; Economic Commission for Africa, Headquarters Building, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Awards &#038; Honors Silver medal, International Student Exhibitions, Rome, Italy, 1963. Public Collections Federal Ministry of Information, Cultural Division, Lagos. Wood, iroko, sculpture: &#8220;Olokun.&#8221; National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Wood sculptures: &#8220;Olokun,&#8221; &#8220;Gelede,&#8221; &#8220;A Yoruba Woman,&#8221; and &#8220;Bird Form.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9281","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9281","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\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}