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Njideka Akunyili Crosby is the 2015 winner of the tenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. The Studio Museum in Harlem made the announcement on Monday, October 26, revealing 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 the Nigerian-born painter who has lived and worked in the United States for many years.
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According to Randy Kennedy in the New York Times, 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 Magazine wrote,
"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 anexhibition 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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Nice.....more grease.

Nice. Congrats to her

Congratulations Njide! Keep making your mother proud.

Like mother like daughter....cld success be genetical.
Nwanyi oma,chukwu dube gi!

Smart child of an extraordinary woman... Nuff Respect..

Keep doing your country proud..

Even if she's adopted US as her home, She's still the great Dora's spawn with her roots firmly here..

Nigeria is blessed, harnessing it is our problem..

Hopefully we will get it right someday..

Congrats

She took a cue from her mother's culture of excellence

Be like ur mum

Congratulations

unlike Diezeni pikin

Lupita Nyongo of naija

neva stop doing ur thing....ur mom watches from above...neva doing her nd dis nation proud

Fine girl...

Smartresult:
Be like ur mum

dora the only good women in igboland, unlike diezani, ngozi, patricia ekah, aviation minister

This woman's daughters are just making us proud.. Your mum also tried her best for this country before her demise. Hope you'll take after your mum somedays and make Akunyuli's family proud again..

Kudos to the igbos..


Check my signature for ur customised wristband

More grease to ur elbow gal

Congrats madam!

moscobabs:
unlike Diezeni pikin

Those one?
They will just buy the award naa!

Congrats beau, ur mum will b happy in d spirit world..


But nne why Ms. Nah when so many nairalanders dey find ur type to "R" to their Ms.

Your mum is the only politician I trusted though good pple don't last.. Congrats dear

Its in her genes. If I could get Dora's genes, I would build me an Aryan race.

I don't know her but for the sake of her Patriotic mother, I say congrats.


RIP Dora
The only fearless Igbo woman I know.
She fought her kinsmen for their adulterated ways to the extent they sent assassin after her. If not for divine protection.
We know your fellow Igbo country men killed you with their diabolical way, but one day, their cup will full.

Alryt

Congratulations!

She rose from a humble beginning...glory be to God.

success is genetical! dullness is genetical too! do not corrupt your lineage with a low quality gene!

Waiting for the children of hate to come here and say,"She is not Igbo but an American"

Nice one from Dora's Daughter.

This is why its important to marry a strong and good woman;

Your daughter will have a good role Model while your son will also know what to look out for when seeking a wife!