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NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY

NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY

b. 1983, Nigeria
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby Biography

Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1983 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and has received a number of awards and grants, including the Prix Canson (2016); Next Generation honour, New Museum (2015); Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2015); and the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize, The Smithsonian American Art Museum (2014), among others. She was an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2011–2012.

The artist’s work is held in significant museum collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 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 Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town.

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Current Exhibition at David Zwirner

Group Exhibition
GROUP EXHIBITION California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version) David Zwirner 4 June–1 August 2026 Los Angeles

Works Elsewhere

Blend In - Stand Out by Njideka Akunyili Crosby contemporary artwork print works on paper
Njideka Akunyili Crosby Blend In - Stand Out, 2020 Offset lithograph on paper
59.4 x 41.9 cm
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David Zwirner contemporary art gallery in New York 19th Street United States
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Victoria Miro contemporary art gallery in Wharf Road London United Kingdom
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