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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby, The Beautyful Ones” Series #1c, 2014. Acrylic, color pencil, and transfers on paper, 6142 inches. Photo: Joshua White Photography 
When

Thursday, April 9, 2020
5:10 pm

Where

Virtual Event

Virtual
This event will take place online - please see listing for information on how to attend.
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Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Open to the public
Free of charge
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In lieu of the suspended live Speaker Series presentation, we’ve captured a conversation between artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Christina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA): watch the video below.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles. Crosby uses collage and photo transfer-based paintings to expose and explore moments of collision, moments of unity, and moments of hybridity found in cross-cultural relationships and in cultures of colonization. Crosby’s work is both personal and universal, as she draws upon her lived experience with interracial marriage, immigration, and dual ideas of home, and the deep traces of colonization in Nigeria. In 2019, Crosby was a participant in the Venice Biennale 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Recent solo exhibitions include Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Beautyful Ones at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Counterparts, which debuted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2017 before traveling to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, in 2018. She received an honorary doctorate of art from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 2019 and was named among the Financial Times’ Women of the Year” in 2016.

Supported by University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression, the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.