Njideka Akunyili Crosby
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby (amụrụ 1983) bụ onye omenka amụrụ na Naijiria na-aru oru na Los Angeles, California .  Nkà Akunyili Crosby "n'esorịta n'ọdịdị omenala n'etiti ebe obibi ya na Amerika na ala nna ya Naijiria, na-emepụta ihe osise na foto nke na-ekpughe ihe ịma aka dị n'ime ụwa abụọ a".  Na 2017, Akunyili Crosby nwetara onyinye Genius a ma ama sitere na aka nke  John D. na Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation .

Akụkọ ndụ 
A mụrụ Njideka Akunyili  na 1983 o wee tolite na Enugu, Nigeria .   Ọ bụ onye Igbo . Otu n'ime ụmụnne isii, nna Akunyili Crosby, Chike Akunyili, bụ dọkịta na-awa ahụ na nne ya, Dora Akunyili, bụ prọfesọ nke nkà mmụta ọgwụ na Mahadum Najiiria,  na onye bụbu onye nduzi nke National Agency for Food and Drug Administration.  Njideka kwagara Lagos mgbe ọ dị afọ iri ịga ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị Queen's College (QC) Yaba, Lagos . Nne ya meritere lotiri US green card maka ezinụlọ nke nyere Akunyili Crosby na ụmụnne ya aka ịgụ akwụkwọ ná mba ọzọ. 

Na 1999,  mgbe ọ dị afọ iri isii, ọ hapụrụ ụlọ ya na nwanne ya nwanyị, Ijeoma, kwaga United States . Ọ nọrọ otu oghere afọ agụ akwụkwọ maka SAT ya wee na-agụ akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme America tupu ọ laghachi Naịjiria ije ozi ife ala na otu afọ. Mgbe ọ fechara ala nna ya, ọ laghachiri Amerịka ka ọ gụọ akwụkwọ na Filadelfia . O weere klas eserese mmanụ mbụ ya na Community College of Philadelphia ebe onye nkuzi ya bụ Jeff Reed gbara ya ume itinye akwụkwọ na Swarthmore College.  Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Swarthmore College na 2004, ebe ọ gụrụ nkà na bayoloji dị ka Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.  Ọ nọ na mbụ na-enweta ihe achọrọ tupu ọ gụọ gbasara nchuso akara ya na mmụta gbasara ahụike  tupu ya ekpebie ịchụso nka.  Ọ chụsoghị nka a ruo afọ agadi ya na Swarthmore mgbe ọ chọpụtara na klas nka na-atọ ya ụtọ karịa klaasị Organic Chemistry na Advanced Biology.  Ọ nwere mmetụta ngwa ngwa ịkọ ahụmahụ ya dị ka onye Naijiria na mbata site na nka ya. 

Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Swarthmore na 2004, ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Nke a bụ ebe ọ nwetara asambodo post-baccalaureate na 2006.  O mechara gaa ụlọ akwụkwọ nka nke Mahadum Yale, ebe ọ nwetara nzere Master of Fine Arts .  

Ọ lụrụ Justin Crosby, onye bụkwa onye na-ese ihe.  A mụrụ nwa ha nwoke, Jideora na 2016. Ya na ndị ọzọ na-ese ihe dị ka Wangechi Mutu na Kehinde Wiley emebela enyi ma zụọ ahịa.

Ọrụ na mmezu 
Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Yale na 2011, Ahoputara Akunyili Crosby dị ka onye na-ese ihe na ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke a na-akwanyere ùgwù na Harlem, amaara maka ịkwalite na ịkwado ndị na-ese ihe nkiri Africa na-apụta.  N'oge obibi a ọ zutere onye ndụmọdụ ya, onye na-ese ihe na New York, Wangechi Mutu .  Ọ nọrọ afọ ya n'ụlọ na-anwale ihe osise, eserese ihe osise, na-amụ nka nke oge a, akụkọ ihe mere eme postcolonial na ọmụmụ mbata. 

Na 2015, Jamillah James, onye bụbu onye nchịkọta ọrụ Studio Museum na Harlem na n'oge ahụ, onye na-ahụ maka onye nlekọta na Hammer Museum na Los Angeles, haziri ngosi nka mbụ nke Akunyili Crosby na Hammer Museum .  N'otu afọ ahụ, James haziri ihe ngosi ọzọ nke ọrụ Akunyili Crosby na Art na Practice na Los Angeles . 

Na 2016, Akunyili Crosby ka a kpọrọ aha Financial Times Woman nke afọ."  N'otu afọ ahụ, e mere ihe ngosi nke ọrụ Akunyili Crosby na Norton Museum of Art na West Palm Beach, Florida .

Na 2017, Akunyili Crosby meriri onyinye MacArthur Fellowship Genius. 

N'afọ 2018, Akunyili Crosby haziri eserese ahụ nke kpuchiri ihe ngosi nka nke Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Ihe osise a na-egosi ụdị mbinye aka ya nke ijikọta eserese na kọlụm, ibipụta akwụkwọ, na ịse ihe iji mepụta ihe nkiri gbagwojuru anya. Ọ bụ onye na-ese ihe nke abụọ mepụtara eserese maka saịtị ahụ n'okpuru atụmatụ ọhụrụ nke ụlọ ngosi nka.

Ahịa nka 
Ka ọ na-erule afọ 2016, ọchịchọ maka ọrụ Akunyili Crosby, nke ọ na-emepụta nwayọọ nwayọọ na-ebuwanye ibu karịa, na-eme ka ọnụ ahịa ya rịa elu n'ahịa ahịa.  Ọ ghọrọ otu n'ime ndị na-ese ihe na-egosi na Nathaniel Kahn 's 2018 akwụkwọ akụkọ ọnụahịa nke ihe niile ebe ọ na-atụle ọrụ ya na àgwà ya n'ahịa nka ya.  Ọ kwụsịrị na a na-ere ihe osise ya Drown na ọrịre nka nke Sotheby na Nọvemba 2016 maka $900,000. Ihe osise mbụ ya bịara n'ahịa bụ Untitled nke rere $93,000 na Septemba 2016 na Sotheby's New York. 

Na Maachị 2017, ọrụ Akunyili Crosby nke akpọrọ The Beautyful Ones (Series #1c), eserese mbụ nke ise nke The Beautyful Ones Series, bụ onye nnakọta onwe ya rere $3 nde na Christie's London.   

Na Mee 2018, Akunyili Crosby debere ndekọ okushon ọhụrụ na ire ihe osise Bush Babies maka ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ nde $3.4 na Sotheby's New York.

Mmetụta 
Mgbe ọ na-aga Queen's College, Akunyili Crosby were kpugheere ọtụtụ omenala ndị Naijiria, British na America nke nyere aka na myirịta dị n'etiti ọrụ ya na ọrụ ndị na-ese ihe nkiri.  Ọ na-enweta ahụmahụ onwe ya dịka nwanyị Naijiria bi na America n'ọrụ ya.  Echiche a nke ijikọ mmekọrịta chiri anya Africa na eserese Western, ewepụtara ya site n'ọrụ Kerry James Marshall . 

Onye na-ese ihe bụ Wangechi Mutu mere ka o jiri ọtụtụ onyonyo mepụta ihe ọzọ.  Mutu na-eji ihe onyonyo na-ekwu okwu maka mgbajie ebe ụzọ Akunyili Crosby na-elekwasị anya karịa na syncretism. O tinyela mbufe foto na akwa iji weta akụkụ dị iche iche dị ka ụdị ntutu, ejiji, ihe owuwu na ihe eji eme ihe sitere na omenala abụọ a  Mbufe foto na-ebelata ịdị nkọ nke foto nke Akunyili Crosby masịrị ya. N'anya ya, ọ dị ka ihe atụ ka esi efu ozi ka ndị mmadụ na-aga n'etiti oghere omenala. 

Ọ bụ onye odee bụ Chinua Achebe na-emetụta ya bụ onye a tụgharịrị uche n'ịgbanwe asụsụ bekee ka ọ dabara na omenala ya site n'ihe osise Akunyili Crosby.  Achebe kwuru na mgbe a gbanwere asụsụ bekee, enwere ike iji ya buru ibu nke ahụmahụ ya n'Africa. N'ime ọrụ ya, Akunyili Crosby na-agbawa Bekee ma jiri ya mepụta oghere transcultural, syncretic. 

Akunyili Crosby họọrọ aka na ndị na-ese ihe ochie na nke ugbu a Édouard Vuillard na Chris Ofili dị ka ndị  mmetụta mmụọ. Mmetụta ndị ọzọ bụ JD Okhai Ojeikere na Malick Sidibé, ndị na-ese foto nke ọma nke Africa.  O depụtakwala Kerry James Marshal ka ihe mkpali.  Dị ka Akunyiliy Crosby, Marshal na-agbado  aka na omenala nka nke Europe. Ọrụ ya, dị ka ó si kwuo, enyela ya obi ike iwere ọdịnala ahụ n'ụzọ nke ya.

Usoro 
Ọ na-eji foto ndị o sere na  onwe ya na Naijiria yana foto ezinụlọ na ibe akwụkwọ akụkọ Naijiria na-ewu ewu.  Foto ndị a "bụ n'ígwé na ọrụ ya site na collage na acetone-transfer prints, na-ekepụta ihe oyiyi n'oge niile eserese ya".  Ihe ndị bụ isi ya gụnyere collage, ịnyefe foto, agba acrylic, unyi, akwa na pensụl nwere agba. Tinyere mmetụta Naijiria siri ike, a na-enwetakwa ụdị ya site na omenala pop, ahụmahụ onwe onye, na agụmakwụkwọ ogbara ọhụrụ ndị isi ocha.  Mgbe ọ na-eke, ọ na-eche maka ndị Ogige ya abụọ bu: American na Nigerian.  Otú ọ dị, a pụghị ịkewa ọrụ ya dị ka ndị America ma ọ bụ Naijiria, kama ọrụ ahụ bụ akwụkwọ akụkọ ndụ nke dabeere na "àgwà nke na-adabaghị na igbe." 

Ụmụ nwanyị na anọ n'ọnọdụ ikikere n'ọtụtụ ọrụ ya. O kwenyere na ụlọ ọrụ nwanyị ekwesighi inwe n'ahụ ajụjụ ma ọ bụ onye òtù kwụsịrị ike na ya. Akunyili Crosby chọkwara ịmepụta ihe oyiyi nke alụmdi na nwunye dị n'etiti agbụrụ nke ọ na-ahụtụbeghị na-etolite na Naijiria. Di ya bụ onye ọcha si Texas, nke ọ na-agbakwunye na ụfọdụ ọrụ ya.

Ihe ngosi ahọpụtara 

 2013: Bronx calling: The Second Bronx Biennial " na Bronx Museum. 
 2014: Sound Vision, Nasher Museum of Art na Mahadum Duke na Durham, NC. 
 2014: Draped down, The Studio Mesuem in Harlem, New York City
 2015: Hammer Projects: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
 2015: Eserese na Myirịta ndị ọzọ sitere na SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 
 2016: Before now After (Mama, Mummy, Mamma), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City 
 2016: Njideka Akunyili Crosby: I Refuse to be Invisible, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Akụkụ nke Norton Museum of Art's RAW Series.
 2017: Njideka Akunyili Crosby/ Predecessors, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH ;  Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum na Art Gallery na Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 
 2017: Front Room: Njideka Akunyili Crosby/Counterparts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Md 
 2017: Side by Side Dual Portraits of Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 
 2018: In the Room: Paintings from interior s 1950-present, Fralin Museum of Art na Mahadum Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 
 2019: I am. . . Ndị nka ụmụ nwanyị nke oge a nke Africa , Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC 
 2020: Radical Revolutionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting past and present, Moody Center for Arts, Houston, Texas

Na-arụ ọrụ 
"Ndị fọdụrụ nke ya fọdụrụ" (2010) na-ejikọta ịse, eserese, nyere xerox , na collage na akwụkwọ. N'ime mpempe akwụkwọ a, Crosby mepụtara uwe site na papier collé (ụdị collage nke na-eji akwụkwọ a na-emepụta ihe nke na-etinye n'elu ala dị larịị). Mpempe akwụkwọ a na-egosiputa Crosby nke dị na n'elu akwa n'ime ụlọ efu nke ụkpụrụ metụtara ihe nketa ya gbara ya gburugburu. Aha ahọpụtara nke ọrụ nka a na-arụtụ aka na ọdịiche dị na ndụ ya na United States na ndụ ya na-ntolite ya na Nigeria .

"Thriving and Potential Displaced (again and again…)” (2021) ka enyere ọrụ maka ihe ngosi Met, Before Yesterday we could Fly.

mkpokọta 

 The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
 "Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection" October 1, 2016 – July 10, 2016
 Presented ""The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" Might Not Hold True For Much Longer, 2013"
 Yale University Art Gallery 
 "The Rest of Her Remains, 2010"
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 "Janded, 2012"
 "Wedding Portrait, 2012"
 The Whitney Museum of American Art
 "Portals, 2016"
 Perez Art Museum Miami The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 "Within Genres Collection" August 25, 2017 – August 19, 2018
 Presented "See Through, 2016"
 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
 "I Always Face You, Even When it Seems Otherwise, 2012"
 The Studio Museum in Harlem
 "Nwantinti, 2012"
 The Tate Modern The New Church Museum, Cape Town
 "Our Lady" November 11, 2016-June, 2017
 Presented "Mama, Mummy, and Mamma, 2014"
 Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
 "Sunday Morning, 2014"
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 "Bush Girl, 2015"
 "I Still Face You, 2015"
 "I See You In My Eyes, 2015"
 Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Norton Museum of Art
 "The Beautyful Ones Series #5, 2016"
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
 MOCA Mural: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
 "Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions" 
 Presented "Garden, Thriving, 2016"
 The Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts
 "Wedding Souvenirs, 2016"

Ihe nrite na nnabata 

 2014, The 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

Akwụkwọ na ihe ngosi katalọgụ 

 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.

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