Njideka akunyili biography of martin

Born in Enugu, Nigeria, in , at age sixteen Njideka Akunyili Crosby immigrated to the United States to further pursue her education. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she moved on to Yale School of Art where her practice evolved and flourished; she received a Master of Fine Arts in Straddling her Nigerian identity as well as the American culture of her adopted home, a potent visual language emerged, generating a body of work in which a distinctive personal narrative explores origin, tradition, and iconography.

By , not long after a transformational residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Akunyili Crosby had already garnered critical acclaim, with exhibitions on two continents.

Through her art, a hybrid of painting, drawing, photo transfer, and collage, Akunyili Crosby implements the tools and techniques intrinsic to Western painting while weaving an intricate portrait of African history, dislocation, and t