Njideka akunyili biography of barack obama

Nigerian-born Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a leading contemporary artist. In early 2018 a typically large-scale painting by Crosby sold for $3 million, just a few months after she had won a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award worth $624,000.

Born in 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, she is one of the six children of J. C. Akunyili, a surgeon and university professor, and Dora Akunyili, a pharmacology professor and government administrator. Thanks to her mother winning the U.S.

government’s immigration green card lottery, Njideka Akunyili at age sixteen was able to move to the United States and earn her bachelor’s degree in biology (she had intended to become a physician) and studio art with honors at Swarthmore College in 2004.

With a growing desire to pursue a career in art, she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, then Yale University where she earned a master’s degree in fine arts in 2011.

Influenced by contemporary French painter Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the American Alex Katz