By Jennifer Schuessler
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, 34, a Nigerian-born painter now living in Los Angeles whose work explores transnational identity, studied both biology and art as an undergraduate, and, as the daughter of scientists, had to grow into the idea of art as a potential career. “I think of my studio as a lab sometimes,” she said. “When I’m working out a new idea, I try to be as methodical as I can.”
Portrait photography: Camilo José Vergara, courtesy John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
October 11 2017
