Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby  (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1983) nyɛla Nigeria bilichini lihigu nucheeni baŋda ŋun tumdi Los Angeles, California. O nucheeni tuma ŋɔ ni, Akunyili Crosby "nyɛla ŋun daa piligi "cultural terrain" zaŋ n-ti America mini bɛ ni daa dɔɣi tiŋgbani shɛli ni Nigeria. Yuuni 2017, Akunyili Crosby nyɛla ŋun daa deei  Genius Grant pini John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation nima sani.

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim 
Njideka Akunyili nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1983 ka nyɛ ŋun zoogi Enugu, Nigeria. O nyɛla Igbo amaa ka leei zoogi Igbo mini Silimiinsili bala yɛlibu shee.     O nyɛla ŋun pahi o ba bihi ayobu ni, Akunyili Crosby's ba, Chike Akunyili daa nyɛla "surgeon" ka o ma, Dora Akunyili daa nyɛ baŋda zaŋ n-ti pharmacology n-ti University of Nigeria, ka lahi nyɛ darata kuro zaŋ n-ti National Agency for Food and Drug Administration. Akunyili Crosby nyɛla ŋun daa labi Lagos saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ yuun pinaata ni o ti chaŋ secondary school Queen's College (QC) Yaba, Lagos. O ma nyɛla ŋun daa di U.S. green card lottery zaŋ n-ti daŋ ŋɔ ka dizuɣu daa che ka Akunyili Crosby mini o mabihi daa labi United States n-daa ti nya liɣiri sɔŋsim bɔhim ni.

Yuuni 1999, saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ yuun pinaayobu, o daa yi Nigeria ni o tizopaɣa Ijeoma n-daa chaŋ United States. O daa ku saha pam bɔhim o SAT's ka daa sabiri  Americanima taarihi, tabibi n-ti laasaba malibu pɔi ka daa labi Nigeria ni o ti tum n-ti Gɔmnanti yuun yini. Din daa niŋ ka o naai gɔmnanti tum n-ti ŋɔ nyaaŋa o daa labi United States ni o ti m-bo baŋsim Philadelphia. O daa tuui niŋ o tuuli  "oil painting class" shikuru yuli booni Community College of Philadelphia ni ka o karimba Jeff Reed daa kpaŋsi o ni o bɔmi soya chaŋ Swarthmore College. O daa naai Swarthmore College yuuni 2004, ni ka o daa bɔhim "art and biology" ka daa  nyɛ Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. 

Din daa niŋ ka o daa naai Swarthmore yuuni 2004 nyaaŋa, o daa bɔhim Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ni ka o daa nya post-baccalaureate certificate yuuni 2006. Di nyaaŋa o daa chaŋ Yale University School of Art n-daa ti deei Master of Fine Arts degree.

 Notable works in public collections 

The Rest of Her Remains (2010), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Efulefu: The Lost One (2011), Rubell Museum, Miami/Washington, D.C.
I Always Face You, Even When it Seems Otherwise (2012), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Janded (2012), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Nkem (2012), Rubell Museum, Miami/Washington, D.C.
Nwantinti (2012), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Wedding Portrait (2012), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born” Might Not Hold True For Much Longer (2013), Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Predecessors (2013), Tate, London
Thelma Golden (2013), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Sunday Morning (Predecessors #3) (2014), Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town
"The Beautyful Ones" Series #5 (2016), Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
Facets: Screen Wall (2016), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Garden, Thriving (2016), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Mother and Child (2016), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Portals (2016), Whitney Museum, New York
See Through (2016), Pérez Art Museum Miami
Super Blue Omo (2016), Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Wedding Souvenirs (2016), National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Dwell: Aso Ebi (2017), Baltimore Museum of Art
“The Beautyful Ones” Series #7 (2018), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Remain, Thriving (2018), Tate, London
Eko Skyscraper (2019), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Awards and recognition
2014, Smithsonian American Art Museum's James Dickey Contemporary Art Prize
2015 Next Generation prize at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
2015 The Studio Museum in Harlem's Wein Artist Prize.
2015 Foreign Policy's Leading 100 Global Thinkers of 2015 
2015 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize at the Studio Museum in Harlem
2016 Prix Canson
2016 Financial Times Women of the Year award
2016 Shortlisted for the 2017 Future Generation Art Prize
2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2017 MacArthur Fellows Program
2019 Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Swarthmore College
2020 Honoree of the Great Immigrants Award by the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Books and exhibition catalogues
 2019 Berry, Ian, and Steven Matijcio, Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2019.
 2016 Brutvan, Cheryl, Njideka Akunyili Crosby: I Refuse to be Invisible, West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2016.
 2015 Cornell, Lauren, and Helga Christoffersen, ed. Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2015. 
 2013 Baptist, Stephanie, ed. Njideka Akunyili & Simone Leigh: I Always Face You, Even When it Seems Otherwise. London: Tiwani Contemporary, 2013.
 2013 Merjian, Ara H. Vitamin D2, London: Phaidon, 2013. 
 2013 The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2013.

 Kundivihira 

 External links 

 Official website

Category:1983 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century Nigerian artists
Category:People from Enugu
Category:Nigerian women artists
Category:21st-century women artists
Category:MacArthur Fellows
Category:Swarthmore College alumni
Category:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni
Category:Yale School of Art alumni
Category:American collage artists
Category:American women collage artists
Category:American people of Igbo descent