Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1983, and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She was lauded as one of Financial Times' Women of the Year in 2016, and she was included in the Future Generation Art Prize 2017 shortlist. She is the recipient of the Prix Canson Prize, 2016; Foreign Policy's list of Leading 100 Global Thinkers of 2015; the Next Generation Prize from New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York, 2015; the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's James Dicke Contemporary Art Prize, 2014.
Recent solo exhibitions have been mounted at Victoria Miro, London, England; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Art + Practice Exhibition Space, Los Angeles, California, which was staged concurrently with a solo presentation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Akunyili Crosby has recently displayed work at institutional venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the New Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Land Commandery of Alden-Biesen, Bilzen, Belgium; BRIC, New York; Bronx Museum, New York; and the Museum of New Art Detroit, Michigan.
Her work is in the collections of major museums including Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Tate Modern, London; The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.