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Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California.

<p>Akunyili Crosby's art negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds. </p><p>Join us May 5th as together we explore the power of juxtaposition, and with this, the continued importance of the interstices formed in between. Look closely - What do you see? </p><p>***</p><p>Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1983 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in May 2019. She is also the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and has received a number of awards and grants, including the Prix Canson, 2016; Next Generation honor, New Museum, 2015; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015; and the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014, among others. She was an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2011-2012. In 2019, the artist participated in the 58th Venice Biennale. </p><p>Akunyili Crosby’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent venues internationally, including at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2018-2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018-2019); Baltimore Museum of Art (2017-2018); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (2016); and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015).</p><p>Work by the artist is held in significant museum collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Museum of African Arts, Washington, DC; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town.</p>

<h3>Your ideas. </h3><h3>Your way of seeing. </h3><h3>Your thinking.</h3>

<aside>Images: Header  -  Njideka Akunyili Crosby. <em>Nwantinti</em>, 2012 (detail). Top -  Njideka Akunyili Crosby. <em>The Beautyful Ones. Series #7</em>. 2018.  Middle - Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Nwantinti, 2012 (detail). Bottom -  Njideka Akunyili Crosby.<em> I Still Face You</em>, 2015.</aside>

<p>About your facilitator: Mark develops and produces access platforms/ programming and communities with a view toward activating art as a tool for positive political, economic and social change.</p><p>To date, his work guides cultural strategy and planning at Arts Council UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (History, Learning and Radio), the Beaney Museum, Canterbury City Council, GOV.UK, Kent County Council, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tate Galleries (Modern and Britain), Artists Space, Bureau of General Services Queer Division, The LGBT Community Center NYC, MAPP International, The New School, The New York Public Library, Village Alliance Inc, International Olympic Committee, and the Tokyo 2020/21 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mark is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and an advocate for the transformative power of increased access to and participation in art and culture for all.</p>

<p>Oh, Hi. We are Considering.Art™ presented by Considering.Live™ - a new LIVE arts and cultural engagement network that's as unique as you are. Join us! Unlike a typical museum / gallery tour, here at CA - it's not really about us, we are more interested in you.</p>

<p>Never repeated and uniquely yours, our interactive and explorative video tours last typically 90 mins in duration, and are facilitated LIVE by your very own 'museum' guide. Cool right?</p><p>With a keen focus on contemporary art, together we aim to explore some of the most pressing issues of today - bringing thoughts, feelings, and observations into a lively and sometimes challenging exchange.</p>

<p>Developed in collaboration with a team of NYC art world professionals, in response to COVID 19 closures, we are super excited to welcome you into our global community as we join each other on this exciting journey. </p>

<h3>Let’s do this... why not book a free tour today?</h3>

<p>Once registered, your unique and direct link to our Zoom viewing / meeting room will be provided - keep an eye out for an email from us.</p><p>Closed Captioning will be provided.</p>

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