Njideka Akunyili Crosby
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title:
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
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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 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.
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Visual artist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njideka_Akunyili_Crosby
date created:
2015-09-22T01:39:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:30:20Z
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