Otobong Nkanga. | Photo by Wim van Dongen EACH YEAR SINCE 2016, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, has presented an international award to a living artist whose practice “elevates the understanding of sculpture and its possibilities.” The recipient of the 2025 Nasher Prize is Otobong Nkanga. The Nigerian Belgian artist is the first African-born recipient of the prize. The honor includes a $100,000, along with an exhibition and a new publication, forthcoming in 2025. Over the past 20 years, Nkanga has developed a research-based, conceptual practice that spans mediums, from sculpture, drawing and writing to powerful and poetic installations and performances, for which she is best known. Her work explores the complex relationships between humans, the land, and its natural resources and how their connections channel identity, memory, and history. “Otobong Nkanga maps urgent global problems but does so in subtle, enigmatic, and probing ways,” Briony Fer, Nasher Prize juror and professor at University College London, said in a statement. “She works with materials that draw on many different aspects of the world’s resources, and the complex histories of those materials are embedded in her works. The intense and productive way in which she presents formal and […]
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