Jenn Nkiru is artist and director from London. She won the 2021 Grammy Award Winner for Best Music Video for her direction on Brown Skin Girl by Beyonce. As an artist, her works have screened internationally, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art in LA, the Tate Modern, the ICA and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, among others. Her work is also held in the MoMA archives. Nkiru was also one of 75 artists selected for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2019 Whitney Biennial.
BEST PIECE OF ADVICE?
What can feel like the end is often the beginning — this is where the turning point resides. Keep going, it gets better. The work you put in now will pay you dividends in the future. If I could offer my younger self a piece of advice, it would be this.
WHAT DOES BEING SELECTED FOR THE SFXV MEAN TO YOU?
It is an honour to be selected to be amongst the inaugural Stonehage Fleming XV cohort. I look forward to building community, connecting, sharing and supporting the other brilliant women in the cohort. I hope us coming together from across various disciplines will serve as inspiration to all women to tap into each other — as what we are able to achieve collectively outweighs what we are able to do individually.
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