Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in May 2019. She is the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, among a number of awards and grants. She was an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2011 to 2012.
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