Artist Otobong Nkanga is the inaugural winner of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Program, a biannual prize carrying $100,000 in cash, an exhibition at the The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Museum in Norway, and a budget to acquire work by the artist for the museum’s collection. “Otobong Nkanga is an artist of unshakeable integrity and vitality,” says Tone Hansen, museum director. “The impact we have upon our environment and one another constitutes the essence of her work.”

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