Art Fact Friday #32 Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- William Mandela Matthews
- Mar 1, 2024
- 3 min read
A Nigerian-born visual artist who navigates the cultural terrain between their adopted home in America and their native Nigeria. The artist creates collage and photo transfer-based paintings that magnify the challenges of living in two worlds. These maticacously layered works, unifies depictions of people, places, and subjects from the artist life to photographic transfers of the artist in addition to Nigerian magazines and mass media sources.
The artist has received a number of awards and grants, including the Prix Canson; Generation Prize, New Museum; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize; and the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize, The Smithsonian American Art Museum,and more.
Work by the artist is held in significant museum collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Museum of African Arts, Washington, DC; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate, UK; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby born 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, of Igbo descent she is bilingual in Igbo and English. In 2000 she moved to Philadelphia to study. Her first oil painting class was taught by Jeff Reed at the Community College of Philadelphia, he recommended she apply to Swarthmore College. Crosby graduated Swarthmore College in 2004,as an Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow she studied art and biology. She then studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, recieving a post-baccalaureate certificate in 2006. From there she attended the Yale University School of Art, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2011.
Next She was selected as artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2015, Akunyili Crosby's held her first solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum.Also in 2015, an exhibition of Akunyili Crosby's work opened at Art and Practice in Los Angeles. In 2016, the Financial Times named her one of its Women of the Year."She also opened a solo exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. In 2017, Akunyili Crosby won the MacArthur Fellowship Genius grant, from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in 2019.
In 2018,She created a mural to wrap the Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. She was only the second artist to create a mural for the museum. “Thriving and Potential, Displaced (Again and Again and…)” was designed for the Met's exhibition, Before Yesterday We Could Fly in 2021. Her work was shown in the Women Painting Women exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2022. In 2022, she her solo exhibitions curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and critic Hilton Als opened at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.More recently Crosby’s work was featured in the National Portrait Gallery's 2023 Kinshipexhibit.
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