Wein Prize Is Awarded to a Nigerian-born Artist


By RANDY KENNEDY

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced Monday that it was bestowing its Wein Prize – a $50,000 award won in the past by esteemed artists like Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock – to Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a Nigerian-born painter who has lived and worked in the United States for many years.

The prize – established by George Wein, a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his wife, Joyce Alexander Wein, a trustee of the museum who died in 2005 – has been given every year since 2006 to established or emerging African-American artists.

Ms. Crosby, 32, who recently moved to Los Angeles, has become known for large-scale paintings that depict African and American domestic scenes. The scenes are visually complicated with collage elements drawn from Nigerian lifestyle magazines, her own photo albums and the Internet, works that, as Smithsonian Magazinewrote, “explore a complex topic – the tug she feels between her adopted home in America and her native country.”

Ms. Crosby’s work has recently been featured in a solo show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and was included in the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial. The prestigious Victoria Miro gallery in London began to represent Ms. Crosby earlier this year, and her work is now the subject of an exhibition at the gallery, organized by the critic Hilton Als.

Thelma Golden, the Studio Museum’s director, said Ms. Crosby was chosen because of her work’s “great innovation and promise” and also because she “truly represents the global nature of the Studio Museum’s mission and reach.”

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Flashh:
You no get MB to attach pics.

Pics don show

Great! congrats dear.. I'm happy for u, ur mum would be proud of u

sunnyb0b0:

Pics don show

Cool!

Like Mother like Daughter!

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You identify good people by their deeds and seeds. Professor Dora has left an indelible footprint on the Sands of time. As though her groundbreaking achievements and international accolades weren't enough, she leaves us a package to continue championing the good cause...may you find peace wherever you may be right now ma'am. You'll remain in our hearts for your good works and wonderful personality!

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So good

Is she married?

or is she available?

congratulations to her
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Wow!

mehnnn this is talent...

She's ugly

Am just waiting for d news saying Mourinho of chelsea has being sacked

Congratulations

Thank You Njideka For Painting Nigeria In A Positive Light Out There Even Though The Affairs Back Here Are Mostly Negative.

Thumbs up lady, more grease to your elbow. So proud of u

Wow! Thats a complex masterpiece. Its stupendously beautiful. It sure deserves the recognition.

Igbo making us proud since 1421
Igbo kwenu!!!

By her dressing, you would know she's dedicated to her job.

XBLadez:
She's ugly

if u keep thinking like this you will never make it...


life z not abt beauty

I know say she worwor na him make the op no add beautiful for the title of this thread... Nice one

sexyexcalibur:


if u keep thinking like this you will never make it...


life z not abt beauty

Her works are beautiful but she's ugly. Is it a bad thing now to tell the truth?

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XBLadez:

Her works are beautiful but she's ugly. Is it a bad thing now to tell the truth?

and who's asking you for the truth?

Exceptional talent!

XBLadez:

Her works are beautiful but she's ugly. Is it a bad thing now to tell the truth?

Actually she is beautiful,, this pic didn't do her justice here

Anambrans are of different breeds.

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I wish her mother will be a life to see her children doing great.
May you do better than your mother in this Generation.
If you are saying Amen hit like
If you are a well wisher hit share
Haters skip

What is up with ndi-igbo folks and the creative arts?. There is just an explosion of them nowadays.