Her works routinely fuses both Nigerian and
American influences and source material, reflecting on contemporary African
life (often her family) along with her experience as an expatriate living in
the U.S., and the inherent difficulty of navigating these two realms. The works
simultaneously become intimate while more broadly exploring the cultural
complications of the dual worlds that she inhabits.
Her new work for the billboard on the façade
of 95 Horatio Street, Before Now
After (Mama, Mummy and Mamma), continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of
her relationship to her family, and in this case to her sister, mother, and
grandmother specifically. 
In this new body of work, Crosby explores intimacy and
interiority in her depictions of domestic life.
The Beautyful Ones is the artist’s first
exhibition in Los Angeles.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby received her BA from Swarthmore
College (2004) and her MFA from Yale University School of Art (2011). She
participated in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artists-in-Residence program in
2011–12. In 2014 she received the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s James Dicke
Contemporary Art Prize.
Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Norton Museum
of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, in January 2016.
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