Not exact matches
Born in Nigeria, relocated to the UK; centered solely in drawing; large - scale drawings explore the malleability of space, politics of play, and cultural
hybridity as a new nation; awards include Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012 — 2013); participates in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program; Queens Museum artist - in - residence.
Bey notes that «in the jour - ney engendered by the Atlantic slave trade, the Minkisi tradition found itself dispersed to the Americas... Thus the legacy of African retentions in the New World was set in place, and an Afro - Atlantic sensibility
born of
hybridity, transference and adaptation was created.»
Saya Woolfalk (
born 1979, Gifu City, Japan) is a New York based artist known for her multimedia exploration of
hybridity, science, race, and sex.
Born in Brazil, Shiokava is ethnically Japanese, and his work embodies a cultural
hybridity played out in the distinction between his wood and macramé totems, which he says represent, respectively, the Japanese and Brazilian sides of himself.