Arts Radar
Trailblazing Contemporary Women Artists
Weekly Feature: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby (b. 1983), Before Now After (Mama, Mummy and Mamma), 2015. Collection of the artist; courtesy Victoria Miro, London
About the Artist
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California. Her
art "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".
Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, she
creates densely layered figurative compositions
that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity
of contemporary experience.