Njideka Akunyili Crosby - Inhabiting Multiple Spaces | Artist Interview | TateShots

Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity of contemporary experience.
Akunyili Crosby was born in Nigeria, where she lived until the age of sixteen. In 1999 she moved to the United States, where she has remained since that time. Her cultural identity combines strong attachments to the country of her birth and to her adopted home, a hybrid identity that is reflected in her work.
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[@clay9357]

Not gonna lie I’m here from school, but her artwork is quite literally gorgeous

[@adekunleonibokun9268]

Same here

[@marleyoo]

same here, and agreed

[@mossy7635]

Same here

[@chouchouuuu4711]

same i agree

[@dipillu65]

You can see the honesty in her work and personality. So enriching! Thank you for being you!

[@beyhancincik852]

Love her personality and her work is so beautiful!

[@minihoney13]

I've stumbled across this today, and I'm thanking the heavens and Mother Earth for guiding me here. What utterly beautiful, exquisite work, the layers and interconnection are just breathtaking. Njideka is enchanting, I could listen to her talk for hours. Please post more of these xxx

[@garethgough4112]

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is ace, i love how she explains her art :)

[@robynschoon3270]

Wow....love her work - such a beautiful, inspiring woman..

[@maryamd6396]

love her work and her personality is so happy and uplifting, I found myself nodding to what she was saying

[@paulavetter4492]

Creativity at its best! I love listening to your explanation of how you develop your art. Beautiful!

[@marrriiee]

she’s gracefully beautiful and her works are phenomenal

[@margaretspecht5768]

my new fav artist!

[@kikiclark99]

Beautiful and thought provoking work!

[@BashiyrDouglas]

We are Global African Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿

[@lrie593]

Her work is beautiful and complicated..

[@habashidaysinn9823]

Njideka, I love your stunning art. You made my day. Thank you!

[@Shokupan982]

Really love this video! 💞

[@charleyjonesartist6436]

Beautiful work are the figures drawn freehand even still the compositions are wonderful

[@lakshmanankoamthmanalath2999]

Great!!!

[@mastercreepy5893]

Wonderful work, it inspires a great amount.

[@therealist2866]

Go on, my Naija sista! 👏

[@andrewbellavie795]

Wow she is a great artist and a very beautiful personality

[@Curtoonstv]

Beautiful work!

[@immz13]

i am from school and she is gooooorgeous

[@LADELCOTO]

Nice lady , very beautiful work

[@monicachambers2357]

very interesting and awesomely 🤔🙆👏🖒

[@mushroomheart]

What an absolutely beautiful woman.

[@Hussein_Nur]

Wonderful stuff.

[@lisaoloughlin6476]

Love your work, unique and very relavant todsy

[@rosco8708]

awesome and inspiring

[@millicentokocha319]

Interesting and exciting..

[@sharcon3891]

Are these works done with colored pencil??? She talks about "painting". I would like to see another film where she's actually creating the works to see how she does it!

[@donnadees1971]

She is gorgeous, too.

[@keatsgipsy9991]

Fascinating Artist

[@agamaibunorogheneochuko760]

My daughter she is 11 years and she is basic 8 , she likes to draw. How do i encourage her, she can draw any thing pls help

[@Makeitu]

nice and interesting video .....full watched....have a nice weekend.......

[@swartstudio]

I'm teaching my 5th and 6th graders about this fantastic artist.

[@trober1104]

Mind blown, have new ideas for the piece I’m working on. See you when I come back up for air.

[@kaesnow2380]

So inspiring! Liminal space in layers... my muse is sparked! ❤❤❤. The art is beautiful! The process is fascinating!🤔

[@xtopherokenz8403]

Just stumbled here after watching her dad on WhatsApp spoke about the need to let our children study and become what ever the what to be and not just medicine and Engineering.

[@christianegonbarnthaler1426]

super art

[@PaintingwithEnrique]

Yes i ferl like that

[@letom.359]

Nigerian,American and gorgeous!

[@daniesza]

Collage on a massive scale. Lovely

[@ChuKwUnoNsOibe]

Cool

[@olgamalyon1306]

nice

[@linkso7166]

My sister

[@trxkky214]

Online school ✌️

[@zeke9305]

any art students..:) (ISO)

[@kusheran]

Love her work and her personality. I can't wait for her to become "woke." Then her work will soar beyond just beautiful.

[@blueskies773]

That is quite pretentious.

[@familyvideosmakingmemories3590]

Mother and father murdered by Fulani government of Nigeria.

[@westvirginiasworstangler2126]

She immediately pulls the victim card

[@chinedualbert3363]

Please, how?

[@paulmajek9087]

Stating the layers of her identity is pulling the victim card?????? Her work isn’t even political at all, and if it was that shouldn’t be an issue!

[@prayingelephants]

So talking about her identity is pulling the “victim” card? She’s not even accusing anyone of anything, she’s just celebrating her culture and her experience. YOU’RE the one pulling the victim card here lmao. This is proof that for people like you, if art is not centered around white people and white culture, it immediately becomes a threat.

[@jordanalex6880]

L