Njideka Akunyili Crosby Commissioned For First Official Portrait of the Obamas at Obama Presidential Center
Updated June 15, 2026
Njideka Akunyili Crosby Included in Ideas of Africa
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
December 14, 2025–July 25, 2026
Njideka Akyunyili Crosby: "The Beautyful Ones" Series #1C
5442 Chester Ave, Philadelphia, United States
October 2025
Njideka Akunyili Crosby Included in The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
National Portrait Gallery, London
February 22–May 19, 2024
Soulscapes
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
February 14–June 2, 2024
Capturing the Moment
Tate Modern, London
June 13, 2023–April 28, 2024
Dialogues: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
September 13, 2023
The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby at The Huntington
The Huntington Art Gallery
February 15–June 12, 2023
The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
September 22–January 22, 2023
Contemporary Project: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
July 23–December 4, 2022
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room
The Met Fifth Avenue
November 2021
USA Artist Fellowship
February 3, 2021
Njideka Akunyili Crosby In Conversation with The Brooklyn Rail
June 11, 2020
Njideka Akunyili Crosby In Conversation with Siddhartha Mitter
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
September 8, 2019
58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
May 11–November 24, 2019
Exhibitions and Projects by Njideka Akunyili Crosby
November 17, 2018–February 3, 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby Named to TIME 100 Next
TIME’s List of the Next 100 Most influential People in the World
November 12, 2019
David Zwirner to represent Njideka Akunyili Crosby in collaboration with Victoria Miro
November 9, 2018
