A Nigerian fine artist has emerged
winner of the 2015 Yanghyun Foundation Artist Award in Seoul, Korea.
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| Nkanga |
According to Premium Times, she was
selected for her outstanding creativity in media and motivational photography,
drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video.
Ms. Otobong Nkanga, the first
African recipient of the prestigious award was born in 1974 in Kano, Nigeria.
She studied at Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria, Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende
kunsten, Amsterdam. She completed Advanced Studies in the Performing Arts at
the DasArts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Nkanga has participated in a number
of international exhibitions, including Biennale de Lyon (2015), Sao Paulo
Biennale (2014), Berlin Biennale (2014) and Sharjah Biennale (2013), and has
held solo exhibitions at a number of art institutions, such as Museum Folkwang,
Germany; M HKA, Belgium; Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands; and Kadist
Foundation, France.
"Otobong Nkanga’s
activities and performances encompass all kinds of media and motivate
photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video. They weave
together concerns about land, natural resources, architecture, the value
connected to them and the dynamic status of remembrance. Her trans-categorical
artistic practice is defined by her ability to pervade the complex layers of
human and natural traces left in material objects and landscapes. Architecture
and landscape act as a sounding board for narration and “the performative,” as
a human trace that testifies of ways of living and environmental issues,"
says the foundation’s Director, Eunyoung Choi while describing Nkanga’s work.
Newswatch Times gathered that the
foundation awards its winning artist with a cash prize and the opportunity to
hold a full solo exhibition at one of the world’s most renowned galleries or
museums as chosen by the winner within three years of receiving the prize.
Aimed to acknowledge and support
outstanding mid-career artists, the Yanghyun Prize was established in 2008 as
the first international art prize by a Korean institution.
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