{"id":9423,"date":"2017-02-03T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9423"},"modified":"2017-05-05T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:07:56","slug":"ngu-etso-ugbodaga","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ngu-etso-ugbodaga\/","title":{"rendered":"NGU Etso Ugbodaga"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter, Sculptor, Textile Artist Address: Department of Fine Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State. Birth: 1921, in Kano, Kano State. Training: NDD, Chelsea School of Art, London, 1954; art teacher&#8217;s diploma, Institute of Education, University of London, 1955. Profile: Full name, Etso Clara Ugbodaga Ngu, sometimes written as Ugbodaga-Ngu; art teacher, mission school, 1945-1950; lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Nigerian College of Art, Science &#038; Technology, Zaria, 1955-1959 and at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 1959-1962; part-time research fellow, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, 1964; operated her own studio, 1958-1975; state adviser, FESTAC, 1975; lecturer, University of Benin, Benin City. Solo Exhibitions Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, 1958. Radcliffe Graduate Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May1963. Group Exhibitions Independence Exhibition, British Council, Lagos, 1960. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art,&#8221; Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968. FESTAC &#8217;77, Lagos, 1977. &#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. Writings by the Artist &#8220;New Trends in Contemporary Arts and Art Education: Reminiscences,&#8221; Nigerian Journal of Art Education (Zaria) 2 (1): 5-7, September 1986. bibl. refs. Awards &#038; Honors Fellow, Asele Institute, Nimo, 1985. Public Collections Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Paintings: &#8220;Market Woman,&#8221; &#8220;Siamese Dancers,&#8221; and &#8220;Beggars.&#8221; Federal Ministry of Information, Cultural Division, Lagos. Terracotta sculpture: &#8220;Bust of a Woman.&#8221; Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia, USA. Works formerly in the Harmon Foundation Collection. National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. Sculpture: &#8220;Ona&#8221;; painting: &#8220;The Turning Point.&#8221; University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies, Ibadan. &#8220;Horse Rider.&#8221; Bibliography &#8220;Our Authors and Performing Artists-II,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) no. 89: 133-140, June 1966. port. Allagoa, Lawrence. &#8220;Exhibition Centre&#8217;s New Home,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) 93: 114-126, June 1967. port. Contemporary Nigerian Art: An Exhibition Assembled by the Society of Nigerian Artists; [Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, June 20-July 21, 1968]. London: Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, 1968. [15]pp. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Artists at Work,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) no. 97: 111-112, June-August 1968. port. Adepegba, C. A. &#8220;Rooted in Traditions: Contemporary Arts with Obvious Traits of Traditional Forms,&#8221; Abinibi (Lagos) 2 (3): 9-12, July-September 1987. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9423","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9423","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}