is an American painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Manhattan's School of Visual Art in 1979. Her work in the upcoming 2014 Whitney Biennial will include a collaborative piece with the sculptor Pam Lins.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby first encountered Mary Louise Pratt’s ‘Arts of the Contact Zone’ (1991), which identifies ‘social spaces where cultures meet,...