Photos: Late Dora Akunyili's Daughter Wins the 2015 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize

 

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, the daughter of late Dora Akunyili, is the 2015 winner of the tenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize.

 

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced the winner on Monday, October 26, revealing that it was bestowing its Wein Prize – a $50,000 award won in the past by esteemed artists like Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock – to the Nigerian-born painter who has lived and worked in the United States for many years.