The Studio Museum in Harlem
announced Monday that it was bestowing its Wein Prize – a $50,000 award
won in the past by esteemed artists like Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and
Trenton Doyle Hancock – to Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a Nigerian-born
painter who has lived and worked in the United States for many years.
The
prize – established by George Wein, a founder of the Newport Jazz
Festival, in honor of his wife, Joyce Alexander Wein, a trustee of the
museum who died in 2005 – has been given every year since 2006 to
established or emerging African-American artists.
Ms.
Crosby’s work has recently been featured in a solo show at the Hammer
Museum in Los Angeles and was included in the New Museum’s 2015
Triennial. The prestigious Victoria Miro gallery in London began to
represent Ms. Crosby earlier this year, and her work is now the subject
of an exhibition at the gallery, organized by the critic Hilton Als.
Thelma
Golden, the Studio Museum’s director, said Ms. Crosby was chosen
because of her work’s “great innovation and promise” and also because
she “truly represents the global nature of the Studio Museum’s mission
and reach.”
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