Otobong Nkanga has emerged winner of the 2015 Yanghyun
Foundation Artist Award in Seoul, Korea. Ms Nkanga is the first African
recipient of the prestigious award.
Nkanga was born in Kano, Nigeria in 1974. She studied at OAU, Nigeria, State, Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende
kunsten, Amsterdam, and completed Advanced Studies in the Performing
Arts at the DasArts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
She 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.
Describing Nkanga's work, Contemporary And said:
"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."
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