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Artist
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
b. 1983, Enugu, Nigeria · Nigerian-American · Based in Los Angeles, California, USA
- MFA, Yale University School of Art (2011)
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2006)
- BA, Swarthmore College (2004)
- Painting
- Acetone Photo Transfer
- Acrylic and Charcoal on Paper
Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates layered figurative paintings that combine domestic scenes with transferred photographs drawn from Nigerian popular culture, family archives and political history. Living between Nigerian and American cultural references, she uses interiors and intimate relationships to examine hybridity without treating it as simple fusion.
Painting; drawing; photo transfer
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Njideka Akunyili Crosby in "Realms of the Real" – Season 12 | Art21
Art2112 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Njideka Akunyili Crosby in Conversation with Siddhartha Mitter | Live from the Whitney
Whitney Museum of American ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
The Museum of Contemporary Art98 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 2012The Beautyful Ones
- 2010I Refuse to Be Invisible
- 2012Drown
- 2012Wedding Portrait
- 2012Nwantinti
- 2014Mama, Mummy and Mamma
- 2016Portals
- 2021Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens
- 2018Remain, Thriving
- 2015Cassava Garden
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo