Anthony Akinbola: Bridging Identity Through Art

Nigerian-American artist Anthony Akinbola’s 2018 exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York, titled ‘CAMOUFLAGE,’ took the art world by storm with beautiful canvases painted with colorful durags, a popular Black hair product and accessory. ‘CAMOUFLAGE,’ like the rest of Akinbola’s work, abandons traditional conventions of art and encourages spectators to consider the intersections between culture and politics present in his own identity, the art world, and society as a whole.

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