Otobong Nkanga

Alterscape Stories: Spilling Waste, 2006,  diptych, 100x100 cm each,  C-prints, edition 2/7 and 2 A.P.
Courtesy of the artist and Moba-Nomad Gallery Brussels

Otobong Nkanga was born in 1974 in Kano, Nigeria. She lives and works in Paris and Antwerp. According to Nkanga, the various media she employs “interrogate our mental and physical identities in varied environments and contexts.”
Nkanga began her art studies at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile- Ife, Nigeria, and later continued them in Paris at the Ecole Nationale  Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and she recently finished her Masters program at Dasarts, Amsterdam. Recent shows include: Re/presentaciones: ellas, Casa Africa, Flow, Studio Museum Harlem, New York; Africa remix, Toured Paris, Düsseldorf, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Stockholm; Snap judgments: New Positions in African Contemporary Photography, toured New York, Miami, Mexico, Canada and the Netherlands; and over the course of the last five years, she participated in the Sharjah, Taipei, Dakar, São Paulo and Havanna Biennials.

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