Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California. Through her art, Akunyili Crosby "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds". In 2017, Akunyili Crosby was awarded the prestigious Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Born: 1983 (age 42 years), Enugu, Nigeria
Spouse: Justin Crosby
On view: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Education: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2006)
Parents: Dora Akunyili
Awards: 2017 Genius Grant
Notable work: I refuse to be Invisible